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How old were William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway when they married?
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, detail of an oil painting attributed to John Taylor, c. 1610. The portrait is called the “Chandos Shakespeare” because it once belonged to the duke of Chandos.
When William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway married in November 1582, Shakespeare was 18 years old, and Hathaway was 26 years old.1