The Doctor must be polygamous

A list of wives before the Doctor married River Song

We all know of the Doctor's wife River Song (Alex Kingston), a woman whose timeline runs in the opposite direction as the Doctor, but River Song is far from being the first wife of the Doctor.

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Here are six other people the Doctor married before River Song: 

6. Queen Elizabeth I

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We all remember the quick courtship and marriage of the Doctor and Queen Elizabeth I in the "Doctor Who" television series. In the episode 'The Day of the Doctor,' the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) proposes to Elizabeth I (Joanna Page), believing her to be a shapeshifting Zygon. By the time the Doctor realized she was not a Zygon but the real Queen Elizabeth I, they had already married.

5. Scarlette

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Scarlette was a woman running a brothel in 18th century London. In the novel "The Adventures of Henrietta Street," she and the Eight Doctor married to symbolically unite the Doctor to Earth to fight against vampiric Babewyns.

4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was a 17th century English writer and poet. In the "Doctor Who" novel, "Only Human," the 9th Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) once married Lady Montagu for love, or so companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) indicates.

3.  Time Lady Patience

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Patience was a Time Lady who was the Fifth Doctor's wife in the novel "Cold Fusion." Don't worry though, she also had two other husbands just like the Doctor later had six other wives. It seems the Time People are a polygamous people.

2.  Cleopatra

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It is unknown which Doctor married Cleopatra, but there have been references to their marriage. In "The Husbands of River Song," River was accusing The 12th Doctor of promiscuity, and listed Cleopatra's name. The 10th Doctor also called her "Cleo" in "The Girl in The Fireplace."

The 12th Doctor also insinuated that she was no beauty, stating that she would be only if her bedchamber were the size of Earth and no other handmaidens were around. Let's just say, the two are definitely separated.

1. Marilyn Monroe

The 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) met Marilyn Monroe at a Hollywood party in 1952, where he "accidentally" accepted her marriage proposal. He did, however, end up leaving the party with her to get married at a chapel the Doctor later claims was illegitamate in the episode "A Christmas Carol." 

In the video, you can hear the Doctor tell Marilyn to "get in the car."

The Doctor has a long, timey-wimey past with so many people and things in it. What we will know is how, out of all these wives, River Song was the best match for the Doctor as she always kept him on his toes by keeping secrets of his future.

And River Song was not monogamous either; she had two other husbands, in the Christmas special, "The Husbands of River Song.

Hopefully we can see River Song again, even if their timelines were "closed" in "The Husbands of River Song."