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June 11, 2004
Ron and Nancy Regan's marriage story
Movie star match
Ron and Nancy were in "the biz" when they first met - but their date was politically motivated.
As a 26-year-old starlet in Hollywood, Nancy was aghast to find that there was another Nancy Davis on a list of communist sympathisers.
She knew that Ronald Reagan, then president of the Screen Actors Guild, was a staunch anti-communist who could help her out, and she sought a meeting with him.
Still getting over his divorce from actress Jane Wyman, with whom he had two children, the actor agreed to meet, but said he could not have a late night as he had a pre-dawn call. At 3am on that first date, they were already planning their next.
"I don't know if it was exactly love at first sight, but it was pretty close," Nancy said.
When he said "let's get married" one night over dinner in their favourite restaurant, she simply replied, "let's". It, too, was a simple affair - a secret ceremony on 4 March, 1952 at the Little Brown Church just out of Los Angeles.
Their daughter Patti was born seven months later, and Ron followed in 1958.
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At the White House, they always walked hand in hand, and the couple would leave love notes around their residence which multiplied ten-fold on birthdays and anniversaries.
BBC NEWS | Americas | End of a love story
Posted by thdyck on June 11, 2004
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