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How to use marriage in a sentence

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He is trying to save his marriage by going to counseling for his drug addiction.
Their marriage is a partnership that has remained strong despite family illness.
In an effort to bring the Vandals into the fold of the Empire, Valentinian III offered his daughter's hand in marriage to Genseric's son.
Emperor Michael II caught wind of the matter and ordered general Constantine to end the marriage and cut off Euphemius' head.
At the denomination's annual conference, the pastorage had passed a bylaw prohibiting members from performing online marriage ceremonies.
Sir Richard's marriage quickly fell apart, and the couple's only child, a son, died in infancy.
The marriage did go ahead, and the following year Joan was forgiven and restored to her position as princess.
Her own attempt to negotiate a marriage to Don Carlos, the mentally unstable heir apparent of King Philip II of Spain, was rebuffed by Philip.
Edward probably hoped that the marriage would strengthen his position in Gascony and bring him much needed funds.
On such openheartedness was their marriage founded that concealment or archness was unthinkable.
Furthermore, the age of first marriage dropped during the 19th century thus increasing a woman's child bearing years.
Conflict broke out between James and the Boyd family following the marriage to Princess Mary.
King Henry's son, Edward, later King Edward I, was granted the other two thirds of the estates and the marriage of the heir.
In 1802, the Reverend Harris Bigg Wither of the Church of England proposed marriage to Austen, which she declined.
He had spent the evening at Edinburgh Castle celebrating his second marriage and overseeing a meeting with royal advisors.
Populations that are more mobile and those that have lower marriage rates tend to have lower turnout.
Caradocus, the Duke of Cornwall, had suggested and supported the marriage between Octavius's daughter and Maximian.
Dafydd and Rhodri were the sons of Owain by his second marriage to Cristin verch Goronwy.
The marriage contract was confirmed in 1235 and Eleanor travelled to England to meet Henry for the first time.
He paid homage and tribute to Edward, who agreed to allow Llewelyn's marriage to go forward.
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The marriage was to take place in a civil ceremony at Windsor Castle, with a subsequent religious blessing at St George's Chapel.
This alliance was probably linked to Cadwaladr's marriage to Alice de Clare, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare.
Philip insisted that the dowry should be returned to France as the marriage did not produce any children, per the betrothal agreement.
Thus, a mixed marriage is forbidden as is the union of a horse and a donkey, and in both unions the offspring are judged matrilineally.
Edward IV decided to take the money and formally cancel the marriage with Prince James.
However, it was through his marriage to Margaret of Denmark that the Orkney and Shetland islands became Scottish.
Henry took a second wife, Adeliza, in the hope of having another son, but their marriage was childless.
After a year, she was won around to the marriage by Henry and Beatrice's promise to remain living with and attending her.
Isabella believed that the dispensation was authentic and the marriage went ahead.
Henry, from whom Maria had imminently expected a marriage proposal, instead takes his leave, and she is not pleased.
A domestic partner outside marriage is referred to as a de facto husband or wife by some authorities.
Bassianus accepted Severus' marriage proposal in early 187, and the following summer he and Julia were married.
After a wedding by proxy in London, the marriage was confirmed in person on 8 August 1503 at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh.
On 7 July 1548, a Scottish Parliament held at a nunnery near the town agreed to a French marriage treaty.
It has been suggested that this explains the lower marriage age and higher fertility of women in the coalfield.
The Ayscough family acquired the manor by marriage in 1539, then Thomas Jenison bought it in 1579 when the Ayscough family had no heirs.
With more births within marriage, it seems inevitable that marriage rates and birth rates would rise together.
If the marriage broke up after the end of 7 years, the woman was entitled to half the common pool.
A postscript artfully tells of Tristram's marriage to Iseult the Lilyhanded.
Originally, this was the supervision of birth, death and marriage registration.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Edmund Rich, condemned the marriage for this reason.
The marriage brought the manor of Sutton Valence in Kent into Montfort's possession.
It was also responsible for the statutes relating to the formalities of marriage and conduct of civil marriage in Scotland.
Early in 1974, Mountbatten began corresponding with Charles about a potential marriage to Amanda Knatchbull, Mountbatten's granddaughter.
He introduced her to his father in August 1828, and she accepted his proposal of marriage at the end of that year.
Her mantle would not serve for any woman who had violated her marriage or her virginity.
The average age at first marriage among Saudi females is 25 years in Saudi Arabia, with child marriage no longer common.
Other aspects of their marriage suggest a closer, more positive relationship.
Philip finally achieved a third marriage on 7 May 1196, when he was married to Agnes of Merania from Dalmatia.
Pope Innocent III declared Philip Augustus' marriage to Agnes of Merania null and void, as he was still married to Isambour.
The marriage was markedly unhappy, in part because of Vivienne's health issues.
In 1474, Edward IV contracted a marriage alliance with James III of Scotland, whereby Cecily was betrothed to the future James IV of Scotland.
Despite some family hostility the marriage took place on 17 April 1937 at the Church of the Assumption in Warwick Street, London.
Existing details about her final years in this last marriage are scanty and conflicting.
After a marriage was recorded in 1408, no written records mention the settlers.
Interracial marriage was a rarity, and was almost always a case of a union between a white man and a mulatto woman.
Some of these relationships occurred before Henry was married, but many others took place after his marriage to Matilda.
She made and hosted several visits between the British royal family and the House of Orleans, who were related by marriage through the Coburgs.
Their marriage revealed the fact that Wollstonecraft had never been married to Imlay, and as a result she and Godwin lost many friends.
Although Isabella wanted to marry Ferdinand, she refused to proceed with the marriage until she received a Papal dispensation.
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Several authors believe that despite his marriage Bacon was primarily attracted to the same sex.
Maria accepts his marriage proposal, subject to Sir Thomas's approval on his return.
Her father refused marriage because of Stephenson's lowly status as a miner.
It seems that, throughout the Middle Ages, the Gaelic Irish kept many of their marriage laws and traditions separate from those of the Church.
This was to be returned if the marriage ended through divorce or the death of the husband.
During this period too, a marriage was arranged between the son of Matad, Mormaer of Atholl, and the daughter of Haakon Paulsson, Earl of Orkney.
This second marriage seems improbable as Edward was campaigning in Ireland at the time, and a marriage in the midst of these events is unlikely.
His early betrothal to Cecily of England came to nothing, but interest in an English marriage remained.
Mountjoy, a court case concerning the marriage settlement of Mountjoy's daughter, Mary.
The marriage was unusual because he was a widower of fifty, while the bride was only seventeen.
Just prior to her marriage in April 2011, Catherine Middleton received a grant of arms based upon those granted to her father, Michael Middleton.
The marriage alliance reinforced links with neighboring clans as well as with families within the territory of the clan.
The marriage was registered at Fig Tree Church in St John's Parish on Nevis.
The marriage would prove to be unsatisfactory and the two would spend years apart while Wellesley was campaigning.
Richilde proposed marriage to William fitzOsbern, who was in Normandy, and fitzOsbern accepted.
One theory is that greater prosperity allowed people to finance marriage and new households earlier than previously possible.
Local customs in the past included marriage ceremonies at the Odin Stone that formed part of the Stones of Stenness.
At this time the prohibition against the marriage of clerics was not yet established.
In subsequent years Henry recaptured much of Normandy and secured marriage to Catherine of Valois.
In 1999, Jane Hawking published a memoir, Music to Move the Stars, describing her marriage to Hawking and its breakdown.
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She could not be married without her consent and any personal goods, including lands, that she brought into a marriage remained her own property.
An exception to her independence was the right to choose a marriage partner, as marriages were normally arranged by the clan.
He inherited Anjou in 1151 and shortly afterwards married Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose marriage to Louis VII of France had recently been annulled.
All the reporters hoped to be the first to get the lowdown on the celebrity's marriage plans.
The English nobles protested the marriage of the King's sister to a foreigner of modest rank.
Remarriage following a divorce is not permitted unless the prior marriage was declared invalid.
In 1152, through marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, he became ruler of the Duchy of Aquitaine.
The alliance was sealed with the marriage of Henry's son Edward to Anne, Warwick's daughter.
Isabella and Mortimer turned to William, the Count of Hainaut, and proposed a marriage between Prince Edward and William's daughter, Philippa.
Thomas Swynford, a son from Katherine's first marriage to Sir Hugh Swynford, was another loyal companion.
Blanche's daughter Joan I of Navarre was queen regnant of Navarre and through her marriage to Philip IV of France was queen consort of France.
In January of the next year, Henry secretly went through a form of marriage with Anne Boleyn.
On the marriage record, Maxwell is listed as Professor of Natural Philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen.
After the brief flirtation with Disraeli, she escaped her unhappy home life through marriage in 1833 to John Josiah Guest.
Later that year, Edward abdicated, after his proposed marriage to divorced socialite Wallis Simpson provoked a constitutional crisis.
They were roommates before Watson's 1887 marriage and again after his wife's death.
From the Orthodox perspective, marriage is one of the holy mysteries or sacraments.
Phiros became related by marriage to Espan, the nephew of king Heracles, who also ruled over a kingdom in Spain.
Then, after the usual Quaker custom, everyone present signed the marriage lines as a witness.
To seal the treaty, a marriage between Blanche of Castile, John's niece, and Louis the Lion, Philip's son, was contracted.
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But the loss of their marriage lines did not make writing to Mercy any easier, and he decided to write the letter to his mother first.
When the marriage line sends an offshoot into the mount of Apollo, the subject will marry a rich person, or one well versed in art.
Theseus and Hippolyta represent marriage and, symbolically, the reconciliation of the natural seasons or the phases of time.
Widows are permitted to remarry without repercussion and their second marriage is considered just as valid as the first.
It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons.
Blake met Catherine Boucher in 1782 when he was recovering from a relationship that had culminated in a refusal of his marriage proposal.
Donne was released shortly thereafter when the marriage was proven valid, and he soon secured the release of the other two.
Other works by Milton suggest he viewed marriage as an entity separate from the church.
Ianthe died in 1876, and her only descendants result from the marriage of Charles Edward Jeffries Esdaile and Marion Maxwell Sandbach.
The couple apparently met again only once, during the process for the annulment of their marriage a few years later.
Queensberry married Ethel Weeden in 1893 but the marriage was annulled the following year.
At the denomination's annual conference, the pastorate had passed a bylaw prohibiting members from performing online marriage ceremonies.
The fact that skin color largely dictated possible partners in marriage promoted racial distinctions as well.
Their marriage began to fall apart in 1901 when it occurred to Russell, while he was cycling, that he no longer loved her.
However, there were problems in Morris's marriage as Janey became increasingly close to Rossetti, who often painted her.
He proposed marriage to four women, including Celia Kirwan, and eventually Sonia Brownell accepted.
The marriage of Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia established contacts between the two nations and brought Lollard ideas to her homeland.
This heavily peppered soup was traditionally prepared to celebrate the rite of marriage in Languedoc.
The Haute family was related to the Woodvilles through the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville's aunt, Joan Woodville, to Sir William Haute.
Chaplin was unhappy with the union and, feeling that marriage stunted his creativity, struggled over the production of his film Sunnyside.
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Four years later, in November 1268, her marriage was granted to Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England, but she did not marry him either.
Maria pointed out to John that a penniless marriage would detract from any chances he had of making a career in painting.
Godwin received further criticism because he had advocated the abolition of marriage in his philosophical treatise Political Justice.
Their marriage in 1816 when Constable was 40 was opposed by Maria's grandfather, Dr Rhudde, rector of East Bergholt.
Perry's final marriage to Barbara Riese in 1952 lasted over forty years, until his death.
The Marconis divorced in 1924, and, at Marconi's request, the marriage was annulled on 27 April 1927, so he could remarry.
Iraq had no Sharia courts but civil courts used Sharia for issues of personal status including marriage and divorce.
In contrast, 18 is the legal age for marriage without consent among males in 180 countries.
In the years to follow, public revelations on the state of Charles and Diana's marriage continued.
Local customs in the past included marriage ceremonies at the Odin Stone that forms part of the Stones of Stenness.
Anne did not argue, and confirmed that the marriage had never been consummated.
Her first marriage had been annulled by a previous pope, Julius II, on that basis.
Catherine claimed that her marriage to Arthur was never consummated and so was not a valid marriage.
The lawful age of marriage was fifteen for girls and eighteen for boys, the respective ages at which fosterage ended.
The Montagu family went on through marriage to become the Dukes of Buccleuch, one of the largest landowners in Britain.
The marriage was the first of a series of errors of judgement by Mary that handed the victory to the Scottish Protestants and to Elizabeth.
He repudiated the reforming policies, and all consideration of an English marriage for the Queen, angering the English.
But, the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to the dauphin in 1558 heightened fears that Scotland would become a French province.
He needed a royal marriage for his son to establish his legitimacy, but no suitable Carolingian princesses were available.
The following year, the unauthorised marriage was discovered and the Queen ordered Raleigh to be imprisoned and Bess dismissed from court.
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Shortly after a proxy marriage in Copenhagen in August 1589, Anne sailed for Scotland but was forced by storms to the coast of Norway.
The marriage treaty was concluded the same day and was viewed as a guarantee of the new peace.
At one point rumours emerged of an intended marriage to Eleanor Eden, to whom Pitt had grown close.
This marriage of tastes has given Gibraltar an eclectic mix of Mediterranean and British cuisine.
My testimony was non-consensual as I was forced to rat on my husband since our same-sex marriage is not recognized.
The marriage was not very successful, and it was many years before she bore him an heir.
Their marriage produced no children, and there is no contemporary evidence that Dafydd sired any heirs.
One factor in William's favour was his marriage to Matilda of Flanders, the daughter of Count Baldwin V of Flanders.
With the marriage breaking down, Nelson began to hate even being in the same room as Fanny.
Nevertheless, morale was boosted by events such as the marriage of Princess Elizabeth in 1947 and the Festival of Britain.
Alan Ayckbourn said that his relationship with Christine became easy once they agreed their marriage was over.
With his debts and political difficulties, the marriage may have been troubled, but it lasted 50 years and produced eight children.
Waltheof was married to William's niece Judith, daughter of Adelaide, and a marriage between Edwin and one of William's daughters was proposed.
The marriage was the third attempt of Geoffrey's father, Fulk V, Count of Anjou, to build a political alliance with Normandy.
The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother.
The marriage question was settled in 1837, by allowing local government registrars to handle marriages.
He apparently took Powys from Llywelyn ap Merfyn at the same time and arranged for a dynastic marriage between their children.
In 1997, Louisiana became the first state to offer the option of a traditional marriage or a covenant marriage.
Could it have been a hybrid, a marriage of croissant and doughnut? The Cronut? The Doughsant?
He had petitioned Rome to procure an annulment of his marriage to Queen Catherine.
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At around this time Henry was also probably secretly planning his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, then still the wife of Louis.
In his second campaign, he recaptured much of Normandy and in a treaty secured a marriage to Catherine of Valois.
Eric Delieb, who wrote a book on Boulton's silver, with a biographical sketch, suggests that the marriage celebrant, Rev.
Romulus visited neighboring towns and tribes and attempted to secure marriage rights, but as Rome was so full of undesirables he was refused.
Terms of the treaty included the marriage of John of Gaunt's daughter Katherine to Juan's son, Enrique.
Henry and Becket had repeated disputes over issues such as church tenures, the marriage of Henry's brother, and taxation.
Many remain in the church to participate in the community and practices such as baptism, confirmation, marriage and burial rites.
Some of the marriage attempts of the 6th century AD were deliberately planned for the sake of royal succession.
For Henry, the marriage into one of Europe's most established monarchies gave legitimacy to the new Tudor royal line.
If she were injured or abused in her marriage her relatives were expected to look after her interests.
Chastity in marriage requires in particular conjugal fidelity and protecting the fecundity of marriage.
They united their house in marriage with the surviving Angle royalty, and were accepted by the Angles as their kings.
The increasingly interwoven Plantagenet relationships were demonstrated by Edmund's second marriage to Joan Holland.
For Germanic women of later antiquity, marriage obviously had its appeal given their reduced status otherwise.
It was, of course, Mrs. Sedley's opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
Whatever made you think in the first place that I would give up the security of my happy marriage for a hole-and-corner affair with you?
Louis had the marriage annulled and Henry married Eleanor eight weeks later on 18 May.
But the marriage of Mary of Burgundy, heiress of Charles the Bold, to Maximilian of Austria, would prove problematic for later generations.
In March 1152, Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine had their marriage annulled under the pretext of consanguinity at the council of Beaugency.
His marriage to Margaret in 1299 ended the war, but the whole affair had proven both costly and fruitless for the English.
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For Edward, a further provocation came from Llywelyn's planned marriage to Eleanor, daughter of Simon de Montfort.
As one of the conditions of her marriage she had brought a bishop named Liudhard with her to Kent as her chaplain.
What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?
Charles' marriage to Anne of Brittany prevented a future total Habsburg encirclement of France.
When Henry decided to annul his marriage to Catherine, John Fisher became her most trusted counsellor and one of her chief supporters.
I entreat you also, on behalf of my maids, to give them marriage portions, which is not much, they being but three.
Edmund's second marriage to Blanche of Artois, the widow of the King of Navarre, placed him at the centre of the European aristocracy.
This committee's purpose is to discuss with the couple the many aspects of marriage and life as a couple.
In the early days of the United States, there was doubt whether a marriage solemnized in that manner was entitled to legal recognition.
After her death, he arranged a morganatic marriage with Anna in 1757, which made him even more vulnerable to charges of sexual impropriety.
In subsequent annulment proceedings, Ruskin himself made a statement to his lawyer to the effect that his marriage had been unconsummated.
The image is believed to have served to emphasise his knightly status during a marriage union of a family member.
Henry's fancy with Catherine started before the end of his marriage with Anne when she was still a member of Anne's court.
He later announced the news of his marriage as fait accompli, to Warwick's considerable embarrassment.
A man does not need approval of his first wife for a second marriage as there is no evidence in the Qur'an or hadith to suggest this.
Since she was a granddaughter of King Edward I and a first cousin of King Edward III, the marriage required papal approval.
Part of an ancient pagan marriage tradition involved the bride taking a ritual bath at a bathhouse before the ceremony.
Her marriage would have enormous implications for the political balance of Europe.
The king's marriage in July 1543 to the reformist Catherine Parr, whose brother Holbein had painted in 1541, established Denny's party in power.
Denny was part of a circle that gained influence in 1542 after the failure of Henry's marriage to Catherine Howard.
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The state of Holbein's marriage has intrigued scholars, who base their speculations on fragmentary evidence.
The account of the loss of the blessing of his father Isaac appears immediately after Esau's marriage to his Hittite wives.
And this marriage of poetry and history remained a solid relationship throughout the classical period.
It appears that the marriage produced no surviving children, despite lasting for more than ten years.
The following is not the popular view of marriage in our hyperfeminist culture, nevertheless it is God's view.
If there is a break in the line of life at the same position as what could be a backup marriage line, the health lines take precedence.
Catherine was Henry's older brother's wife, making the path for their marriage a rocky one from the start.
John Beaufort had been illegitimate at birth, though later legitimised by the marriage of his parents.
Although the marriage made sense in terms of foreign policy, Henry was still enraged and offended by the match.
In 1855, after her marriage to Ruskin was annulled, Effie and John Millais married.
Henry VII came to peace with James IV in 1502, paving the way for the marriage of his daughter Margaret.
Fourteen children have been identified, two from Freud's first marriage and 12 by various mistresses.
The marriage unified the warring houses of Lancaster and York and gave his children a strong claim to the throne.
When she then pleads for the marriage to be delayed, her mother rejects her.
His marriage to the daughter of Narbonensian senator Gnaeus Julius Agricola implies that he came from Gallia Narbonensis.
The newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was then able to declare Henry's marriage to Catherine annulled.
Reportedly, she broke off their relationship upon accepting marriage to a wealthier man, Bacon's rival, Edward Coke.
Years later, Bacon still wrote of his regret that the marriage to Hatton had not taken place.
Keats endured great conflict knowing his expectations as a struggling poet in increasingly hard straits would preclude marriage to Brawne.
The marriage proved a happy one, and Mary Shelley and Jane were fond of each other.
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The first months of the marriage were overshadowed by a lack of money, and by Gardner's poor health, which persisted into the autumn.
She was delighted when her old friend from Italy, Edward Trelawny, returned to England, and they joked about marriage in their letters.
After divorcing Douglas, her third and final marriage was to Henry Stewart, with whom she had another daughter, Dorothea Stewart.
Wells was a friend of many years, and tried to intervene when Barrie's marriage fell apart.
Despite Somerset's disappointment that no Scottish marriage would take place, his victory at Pinkie Cleugh made his position appear unassailable.
Golding and Ann Constable, while approving the match, held out no prospect of supporting the marriage until Constable was financially secure.
The purpose of the visit was to prepare Annette for the fact of his forthcoming marriage to Mary Hutchinson.
It was to be a hollow shell of a marriage and they finally divorced in 1921, after a lengthy period of separation.
Taylor died in 1858 after developing severe lung congestion, after only seven years of marriage to Mill.
He talks about the role of women in marriage and how it needed to be changed.
After obtaining the dispensation, Henry had second thoughts about the marriage of his son and Catherine.
Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security.
The only options open to the girls were either marriage or a choice between the professions of school mistress or governess.
Edith remained with him until his death, and, by all accounts, their marriage was a happy, close, and loving one.
However, Austen had known him since both were young and the marriage offered many practical advantages to Austen and her family.
His 1152 marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine allowed the future Henry II to gain control of his new wife's possessions of Aquitaine and Gascony.
The marriage unified the warring houses and gave his children a strong claim to the throne.
Austen's plots highlight women's traditional dependence on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.
Richard's marriage plans brought him into conflict with his brother George.
In their case the papal dispensation was obtained after Catherine declared the first marriage had not been consummated.
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Both of George's parents committed adultery, and in 1694 their marriage was dissolved on the pretext that Sophia had abandoned her husband.
Harley claimed the title of Oxford because of his relationship through marriage to the previous holders, the De Veres.
Mason's failing marriage left him in a general malaise and with a sense of apathy, both of which interfered with his drumming.
Ayer's marriage to Wells was dissolved in 1983 and that same year he married Vanessa Salmon, former wife of politician Nigel Lawson.
His marriage to Bianca Jagger ended in 1977, although they had long been estranged.
In 2008, John stated he preferred civil partnerships over marriage for gay people.
Richard's marriage to Anne was never declared null, and it was public to everyone including secular and canon lawyers for 13 years.
In May 1973, with his third marriage failing, Sellers went to the theatre to watch Liza Minnelli perform.
In February, following another request from Leigh, her husband also applied for their marriage to be terminated.
In 1930, with his impending marriage in mind, Olivier earned some extra money with small roles in two films.
He met American actress Uma Thurman on the set of State of Grace, and they were married in 1990, but the marriage ended two years later.
Mendes also had a stepdaughter, Mia, from Winslet's first marriage to filmmaker Jim Threapleton.
Then, in 1945, he married Lorraine Walsh, but that marriage also ended quickly.
Both of Wollstonecraft's novels criticize what she viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage and its deleterious effects on women.
Edward, like Eric, was now writing of Queen Margaret, anticipating her inauguration and the subsequent marriage to his son.
However, Mary's insistence on the marriage seems to have stemmed from passion rather than calculation.
The Attlee Government also abolished the marriage bar in the Civil Service, thereby enabling married women to work in that institution.
Philip had a son from a previous marriage and was heir apparent to vast territories in Continental Europe and the New World.
His marriage in the 1050s to Matilda of Flanders provided him with a powerful ally in the neighbouring county of Flanders.
Finally Fulk achieved his goal through the marriage of Geoffrey and Matilda.
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More had no children from his second marriage, although he raised Alice's daughter from her previous marriage as his own.
In 1502, Arthur died at the age of 15 of sweating sickness, just 20 weeks after his marriage to Catherine.
Five days later, on 28 May 1533, Cranmer declared the marriage of Henry and Anne to be valid.
However, it was not long before Henry wished to annul the marriage so he could marry another.
In 2017, the House of Clergy voted against the motion to 'take note' of the Bishops' report defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
He made a dynastic marriage with Catherine of Aragon, widow of his brother Arthur, in June 1509, just before his coronation on Midsummer's Day.
Henry argued that this had been wrong and that his marriage had never been valid.
According to Canon Law the Pope cannot annul a marriage on the basis of a canonical impediment previously dispensed.
Her first Act of Parliament was to retroactively validate Henry's marriage to her mother and so legitimise her claim to the throne.
Despite his affection for Mary, Henry was deeply disappointed that his marriage had produced no sons.
The alliance between the Norse and the Scots was cemented by the marriage of Olaf to Constantine's daughter.
Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.
Mary's first Parliament, which assembled in early October 1553, declared the marriage of her parents valid and abolished Edward's religious laws.
Despite Mary's marriage to Philip, England did not benefit from Spain's enormously lucrative trade with the New World.
The treaty would be sealed by the arranged marriage of John's son Edward and Philip's niece Joan.
His desire for an annulment of his marriage was known as the King's Great Matter.
There were even rumours that the nobility would rise if the marriage took place.
Within two years, the Rough Wooing, Henry VIII's military attempt to force a marriage between Mary and his son, Edward, had begun.
The seal of agreement was to be marriage between Rollo and Gisla, daughter of Charles.
The irretrievable breakdown of a marriage can be grounds for divorce.
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The current Princess of Wales is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who automatically assumed the title upon her legal marriage to Prince Charles.
Among the revolutionary concepts in this Carta de Logu was the right of women to refuse marriage and to own property.
Her fate was sealed by the marriage arrangement made in her youth.
His frequent absences from home caused his marriage to unravel.
To all outward appearances, their marriage was quite normal.
Daughters were important political assets in a world where diplomacy and marriage were closely linked.
She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill.
The marriage nevertheless went ahead some time in the early 1050s, possibly unsanctioned by the pope.
There are indications that Robert may have been briefly betrothed to a daughter of King Cnut, but no marriage took place.
The marriage ceremony was given primordial significance over folkloric pre-marriage engagement rituals and wild charivaris.
Henry I had the marriage annulled to avoid strengthening William's rival claim to Normandy.
His marriage with Mary had not yielded any children, and he did not seem likely to remarry.
If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed.
Consanguineous marriage is customary in many societies, but leads to an increased birth prevalence of infants with severe recessive disorders.
A uniform marriage and divorce law must be drastically enacted by the Central Government and rigidly administrated by the higher courts.
A marriage was only consummated via erection, penetration, and insemination intra vas.
The marriage pattern in Holland Marsh may be described as ethnic endogamy, or ethnogamy.
A marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
Their unconsummated relationship was a foretype of the chaste marriage of Mary and Joseph.
It is an expression of love within marriage and allows husband and wife to participate in the creation of life.

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