“She had her own pension from the Ministry of Defence as a war widow as well as a state pension.”

“Watching the race will be a young widower whose wife died of cervical cancer in March.”

“In the past they've tried to engineer a meeting with a local widower who lost his wife and children in a car accident.”

“So she is married off as the second wife of an elderly widower in a neighbouring village.”

“In her own widowhood, she welcomed her surviving sisters, Sophie and Aloysia, to Salzburg and supported them emotionally and materially.”

“Linda Harris relates how, after the numbness of widowhood wore off, she found love again through the lonely hearts column of her local newspaper.”

“It is to share with the world the agony and exploitation of widowhood in India, which goes beyond the loss of a loved one.”

“It was noticeable in his early widowerhood how deep the affection between him and his sons.”

“He highlighted widowerhood and physical illness amongst reasons why the older Spanish population do not have sexual intercourse.”

“Their respective routes to widowerhood affected their kinship ties, specifically whether they had children, grandchildren, and in-laws.”

“There's a string of more complicated provisions that affect, for example, widows, widowers and divorcees.”

“Where the widows or widowers have died there may be other surviving family, like grandchildren.”

“Mr Murphy said that all widows and widowers who were overtaxed should be repaid this money with interest to compensate them for the loss of purchasing power.”