Napoleon Bonaparte, also known as Napoleon I of France, was not just a man of politics and action; he was also a passionate lover who had a number of lovers in his lifetime. But the one woman who remained in his heart until the very end was Josephine de Beauharnais.

Napoleon married Josephine in 1796, but left her behind in Paris two days after the marriage to lead his men into war. Throughout the course of their separation, Napoleon wrote numerous love letters to Josephine, expressing his love, pleading her for attention and inviting her over to Italy. But Josephine very rarely wrote back, and she refused to join her husband in Italy.

Little did Napoleon know that Josephine was actually seeing another man.

Rumours of her affair eventually reached Napoleon, and since then, their relationship was not the same again. Napoleon began having revenge affairs, and almost divorced Josephine, but gradually learned to forgive her.

Sadly, Josephine could not bear Napoleon an heir. She agreed to a divorce after fourteen years of marriage so he could remarry Marie-Louise of Austria. Napoleon never forgave himself for having to divorce the love of his life, and he and Josephine remained in love.

Josephine contracted pneumonia and passed away four years after the divorce. Napoleon died in 1821 and despite his numerous affairs, eventual divorce and remarriage, the Emperor's last words were: “France, army, Josephine.”




If there was ever proof that love was a crime, it would be the undying love of Bonnie and Clyde.

When Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow first laid eyes on each other in 1930, it was love at first sight. Bonnie immediately forgot her place in the world, cast aside a promising future, and joined Clyde in his crime sprees around midwest America.

Bonnie and Clyde were inseparable. Together, they committed numerous crimes, escaped several ambushes and denied their own deaths during the Great Depression. Despite being celebrity criminals throughout the course of their sprees, the police were not able to arrest them and put an end to their exploits. It seemed as though Bonnie and Clyde were unstoppable.

Until they made one tiny mistake.

They were consistent in their movements and, therefore, predictable. Texas Officer Frank Hamer began tracking them down months before planning an ambush, and he could easily chart their path and predict where they would go. When he was ready, Hamer assembled a posse of five policemen to aid him in his ambush.

On 23rd May, 1934, the posse waited concealed behind bushes, knowing that Bonnie and Clyde would approaching soon in their stolen car. When the moment arrived, the officers immediately opened fire with automatic rifles.

Clyde died instantly from a head shot, while Bonnie did not die as easily. She screamed as her lover lay dead beside her and was terrified by the death that awaited her. The officers did not stop shooting when the car came to a halt and when Bonnie fell silent. Their weapons rattled mercilessly as they inched closer towards the stationary car.

The fulisade of bullets lasted almost four minutes. Approximately 130 bullets tore into the car, and Bonnie and Clyde were shot 50 times. The partners in crime died side by side in their stolen car.




Cleopatra was the last Pharaoh of Egypt, a woman of stunning beauty who had fallen in love not once, but twice. Her first love was with Roman general Julius Caesar and she had a son with him. However, tragedy struck and Julius Caesar was assassinated by one of his own men.

One would never thought that the Pharaoh would never love so soon after the death of her ex-lover.

A Roman leader by the name of Mark Antony stole Cleopatra’s heart and fathered her twins not long after Caesar's tragic death. However, their love was not to be, and Antony went back to Rome, having to marry Octavia, a sister of another Roman leader, Octavian. Antony however, left Octavia after some time realizing his love with Cleopatra was stronger. He proposed to Cleopatra and married her, and the couple had another child. They ruled and lived together, content with the love and family they had.

However, the Romans were unhappy with their love for one another; they felt that Antony was giving the Roman Empire away to Cleopatra. The one angered the most was Octavian, the brother to Octavia, the woman that Antony left. Fortune turned against both Antony and Cleopatra as Octavian convinced the Roman Empire to go to war against Egypt.

It was this war that caused the end of Cleopatra and Antony's rule. During the war, at the Battle of Actium. Antony killed himself when he heard that Cleopatra had died in battle.

However, this rumor was proven false. When the Queen of Pharaoh heard of this, she despaired. Not wanting to be captured, in the end, Cleopatra committed suicide by letting a poisonous asp (a type of snake) bite her. Thus, ended the line of Pharaohs of Egypt and also the tragic love that could have lasted for eternity.




Adolf Hitler was the name that conjures images of the devil who caused millions of deaths during World War II. Little did the people know that even a crazed man like him was capable of loving someone. That was until, the last moments of his life.

A woman by the name of Eva Braun actually loved Adolf. She once wrote a love letter to him: "from our first meeting I swore to follow you anywhere - even unto death - I live only for your love”

Her love devotion to him lasted the grave and this loyalty to Adolf actually caused her death. The end of the war loomed and they both got married in a hurry. Several hours after their marriage, the couple took cyanide poison and committed suicide. In addition to the poison, Adolf shot himself to quicken his death. Their bodies were found by the Soviet troops and they were buried at Magdeburg for 25 years before being destroyed by Russian troops.

The ending of this love story is rather gruesome; It is the story of the love between a war leader and a simple woman blinded by love, a secret relationship revealed in the end by their violent, desperate death.

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