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Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are country royalty.

The couple, who combined have won eight Grammy Awards and 29 Country Music Awards, have been married for 24 years and share three daughters, Gracie, 23, Maggie, 22 and Audrey, 19.

But despite all their success and fame, the couple live a relatively low-key life (well, despite the private island and all).

Here's their relationship timeline.

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Faith Hill and Tim McGraw met back in 1994 at the annual Country Radio Seminar in Nashville.

At the event, both Hill and McGraw performed in the "New Faces" show and had a friendly conversation. Hill had just divorced her husband of six years, Daniel Hill, and McGraw was dating Kristine Donahue.

Two years later, in 1996, Hill opened for McGraw on his Spontaneous Combustion Tour and sparks flew. At the time, McGraw had called off his engagement to Kristine Donahue, but Hill was now engaged to record producer, Scott Hicks.

Soon after, Hill realised how strong her chemistry was with McGraw, and called off her engagement.

"If someone is going to judge my character because I was engaged to somebody and then I left him for somebody else — 'Oh, okay, now she's a slut and a bad person' — I can't control that. But I wasn't about to let Tim slip through my hands," she told People in 1998.

That same year, McGraw proposed.

According to Brides magazine, McGraw shared their proposal story on their 19th wedding anniversary, at a Colorado performance. It was during that same Spontaneous Combustion Tour that McGraw popped the question.

"We were in the dressing room, here, June 26, 1996, and it was raining and stuff and we'd been on tour for a while together, and I joked around with her about getting married. And so I said... I looked at her, grabbed her by the hand, and dropped forward [on my knees] onstage," he told the publication.

"She had already done her show. And I said, 'I'm really serious. I want you to marry me.'"

"She said, 'We're at a country music festival in a trailer house, and you're asking me to marry you? And I said, 'Yeah.'"

Then McGraw went on stage to perform his set and when he came back to his trailer, Hill had written her answer on his mirror in Sharpie.

"Yes, I'm gonna be your wife! I love you," she wrote.

On October 6, 1996, four months after the proposal, McGraw and Hill invited their friends and family to a softball game and concert in McGraw's hometown, Rayville, Louisiana. Instead of performing, the couple got married.

At their wedding, Hill was already three months pregnant.

In May 1997, the couple's first daughter, Gracie Katherine, was born.

That same month, their first single 'It's Your Love' was released. The song was number one on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart for six weeks straight and won Single, Song, and Top Vocal Event of the Year at the 1997 Country Music Awards (CMAs).

Charlotte Begg

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