Falco met his wife, Helena Justina, the divorced and patrician daughter of a senator, while on an investigation in Britannia ( The Silver Pigs ), but their very different circumstances made their relationship difficult.

In Nemesis, it is revealed that Helena Justina has been pregnant once again.

* Social class relationships: Falco ( plebeian ) is " married " to Helena Justina, daughter of a senator ( patrician ), and he is trying to improve his status.

Her radio works include The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode The Determined Client and Helena Justina in the serialisation of the Falco novel " The Silver Pigs ".

* 1965 – Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American cosmetics manufacturer ( b. 1870 )

* 1831 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian scholar and theosophist ( d. 1891 )

* 1969 – Helena Guergis, Canadian politician

* 1965 – Helena Suková, Czech tennis player

* Helena Charles ( 1951 – 1957 )

* 1870 – Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein ( d. 1948 )

* 1821 – Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.

* 1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress

* 1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova.

The third figure was the Russian Helena Blavatsky ( 1831 – 1891 ), one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, through which she propagated her religious movement of Theosophy, which itself combined a number of elements from Eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism with Western elements.

* 1984 – Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician ( A-Teens )

* 1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at " Last Chance Gulch ".

* 1815 – Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.

As a result, in 1592 Philip II of Spain and I of Portugal ( 1527 – 1598 ) ordered the annual fleet returning from Goa on no account to touch at St Helena.

A fleet commanded by Captain John Dutton ( first governor, 1659 – 1661 ) in the Marmaduke arrived at St Helena in 1659.

Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.

William Dampier called into St Helena in 1691 at the end of his first of three circumnavigations of the world and stated Jamestown comprised 20 – 30 small houses built with rough stones furnished with mean furniture.

In 1997, the acute employment problem at St Helena was brought to the attention of the British public following reports in the tabloid press of a " riot " following an article in the Financial Times describing how the Governor, David Smallman ( 1995 – 1999 ), was jostled by a small crowd who believed he and the Foreign Office had rejected plans to build an airport on the island.

One commentator has observed that, notwithstanding the high unemployment resulting from the loss of full passports during 1981 – 2002, the level of loyalty to the British monarchy by the St Helena population is probably not exceeded in any other part of the world.

This closed in 1861 and was immediately replaced by the longest running paper, the St Helena Guardian ( weekly, 1861 – 1925 ).

The proprietor of the latter, Benjamin Grant, also published the St Helena Advertiser ( 1865 – 1866 ).

Two other newspapers published about this time, the St Helena Advertiser, the St Helena Star ( 1866 – 1867 ) and St Helena Spectator ( 1866 – 1868 ) both closed because of the lack of printing facilities.

Other characters include Falco's mother, his sisters, their husbands and their never-ending crowd of offspring ; his father Geminus ( the shady antiques dealer ); his two children and their British nursemaid Albia, whom Marcus and Helena have adopted ; Helena's mother and two brothers Aulus Camillus Aelianus and Quintus Camillus Justinianus ; Falco's one-time landlord Smaractus ; the laundry proprietor Lenia, Smaractus ' wife and Falco's former neighbour ; Falco's personal trainer Glaucus ; and various murderers, criminals, exotic dancers, and mangy animals, all of whom spend a great deal of time making Falco's life a little harder than it would be otherwise.

The couple remained in Britain, in calling distance of the Queen, who liked to have her daughters nearby, and Helena along with her youngest sister, Princess Beatrice, became the Queen's unofficial secretary.

The most the Grand Duke of Lithuania could do was to garrison Smolensk and other strongholds and employ his wife Helena, the Tsar's daughter, to mediate a truce between his father-in-law and himself after the disastrous Battle of Vedrosha ( 1500 ).

He is also now thought to have been responsible for the building of Santa Costanza on a Christian site just outside Rome as a mausoleum for his wife Helena and sister-in-law Constantina.

Rozhenko and his wife Helena raised him on a small farm colony on the planet Gault, a world of about 20, 000 inhabitants, almost all of them human.

Historically, the Kingdom of Sicily had at times controlled parts of the eastern Adriatic seaboard, and Manfred possessed the island of Corfu and the towns of Butrinto, Avlona and Suboto, which had formed the dowry of his wife Helena.

They were originally described by Walcott as separate fossils under the genus name Helenia, ( Walcott's wife was named Helena and his daughter Helen ); Runnegar adopted the name helen when they were recognized as part of the hyolith organism.

* Constantius Chlorus divorces his wife ( or concubine ) Helena, mother of Constantine I, and marries emperor Maximian's stepdaughter, Theodora.

Manuel II Palaiologos was the second son of Emperor John V Palaiologos and his wife Helena Kantakouzene.

By his wife Helena Dragas, the daughter of the Serbian prince Constantine Dragas, Manuel II Palaiologos had several children, including:

* Helena, mother of Constantine I, tells him that he must atone for executing his son and wife by building churches.

The ultras found themselves back in power in favourable circumstances: Berry's wife, the duchesse de Berry, gave birth to " miracle child ", Henri, seven months after the duc's death ; Napoleon died on Saint Helena in 1821, and his son, the duc de Reichstadt, remained interned in Austrian hands.

Romanos II was a son of Emperor Constantine VII and Helena Lekapene, the daughter of Emperor Romanos I and his wife Theodora.

By his first wife Helena, Romanos III Argyros had a daughter, who was engaged to Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor.

To strengthen the ties between the emperor and his powerful military servant, in 289 Constantius divorced his wife ( or concubine ) Helena, and married the emperor Maximian ’ s daughter, Theodora.

His first wife, Helena, found the True Cross.

When she was briefly imprisoned at Perm in 1918, Princess Helena Petrovna, the wife of Anastasia's distant cousin, Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, reported that a guard brought a girl who called herself Anastasia Romanova to her cell and asked if the girl was the daughter of the Tsar.

Andreas ( Anders ) Dahl was the son Christoffer Dahl, a preacher, and his wife, Johanna Helena Enegren.

* Helena, wife of Julian ( died 360 ), Roman daughter of Emperor Constantine

Nick learns that Draque's wife Helena bought the artwork, but she is knocked out and the painting goes missing.

Her husband was a son of Patrikas, Prince of Starodub and his wife Helena.

Married Yuri Patrikievich, son of Patrikej, Prince of Starodub and his wife Helena.

The sources are equivocal on the point, sometimes calling Helena Constantius ' " wife ", and sometimes, following the dismissive propaganda of Constantine's rival Maxentius, calling her his " concubine ".

In order to obtain a wife more consonant with his rising status, Constantius divorced Helena some time before 289, when he married Theodora, Maximian's daughter.