Favorite Fictional/Historical Couples

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Ebony AKA AngieJ" <ebonyink at h...> wrote:
> > In honor of the Valentine's Day holiday that just passed, I'd 
like to 
> start a thread about pairings.  But NOT Harry Potter ships... 

First, a comment on Ebony's list
Obviously, from my fanfic upload of yesterday, I dig Elizabeth & Mr 
Darcy : ) (and I'm a little house buff, and I agree, Laurie was meant 
to be with Jo, and that's why I've only reread the begining of Little 
Women a million times, and hte end only twice)

But the loudest comment of all? 
> 10)  Desiree Clary and Bernadotte (historical figures, ancestors of 
> the current Swedish royal family--I *love* the book by Annemarie 
> Selinko!)
You've read Desiree? Ebony, you are the ONLY person in the world who 
I know that has read this amazingly wonderful book! (I knew there was 
a reason I liked you!) I love this story! And when I went to sweden 
back in 1989, we went to see where they are burried - I felt like I 
was in the presence of history...just like when I went, in England, 
to the site where Lady Jane Grey was tried for treason - they're not 
on my historical couples list because the movie version of their 
Grande Passion was entirely made up, but they are on my fictional 
couples list.
So are Elizabeth and Marc Remillard in Julian May's Pliocene Exile 
series, Catherine Velis and Solarin in The Eight and, of course, 
Buttercup and Westley of The Princess Bride.