On the defensive, he added, `` I wish you'd think what it must be like for her to be without Greg, to be a new widow, a young widow ''.

Ethan met his second wife, a young widow by the name of Frances Montresor Brush Buchanan, early in 1784, and married her after a brief courtship on February 16, 1784.

King Philip II of France claimed that certain properties in Normandy belonged to his half-sister, Margaret of France, widow of the young Henry, but Henry insisted that they had once belonged to Eleanor and would revert to her upon her son's death.

The young widow edited her father's papers.

His friends could find no public office for him, and a scheme for retrieving his position by a marriage with the wealthy and young widow Lady Elizabeth Hatton failed after she broke off their relationship upon accepting marriage to a wealthier man.

When he was 36, Bacon engaged in the courtship of Elizabeth Hatton, a young widow of 20.

One such nurse was Ada W. Bacot, a young widow who had lost two children.

As a widow, she is bound by tradition to wear black and avoid conversation with young men.

In December 1595, Kepler was introduced to Barbara Müller, a 23-year-old widow ( twice over ) with a young daughter, Gemma van Dvijneveldt, and he began courting her.

On September 15, 1794, James Madison married Dolley Payne Todd, a young widow, at Harewood, in what is now Jefferson County, West Virginia.

When she met Captain Horatio Nelson on Nevis, Frances Nisbet was a young widow with a five-year old son.

His father, Gruffydd Fychan II, hereditary Tywysog of Powys Fadog and Lord of Glyndyfrdwy, died some time before 1370 leaving Glyndŵr's mother Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn of Deheubarth a widow and Owain a young man of maybe 16 years at most.

Henry VI ’ s widow Constance of Sicily ruled over Sicily for her young son before he reached the age of majority.

On Christmas Eve 1347, Edward III granted Marie de St Pol, widow of the Earl of Pembroke, the licence for the foundation of a new educational establishment in the young university at Cambridge.

While there, he married in 1648 ( as fourth wife ) a young widow, Mary Beedle of Kittery, Maine.

Her success as ruler was due to the power of the self-images she successively portrayed of innocent young woman, devoted wife and mother, suffering and patient widow, and grandmotherly matriarch.

This left Flanders in the grip of a succession crisis ; Baldwin VI's widow was ruling for her two young sons, but her rule was contested by Robert, Baldwin's brother.

Later, Godai and the other tenants find out that despite her young age, Kyoko is a widow who had married her high school teacher, but tragically her teacher died shortly after their marriage.

* August 25 – Emperor Gratian, age 24, is assassinated at Lugdunum ( modern Lyon ), leaving a young widow Laeta.

The March of Moravia was subdued and its government entrusted to Rudolph's representatives, leaving Ottokar's widow Kunigunda of Slavonia, in control of only the province surrounding Prague, while the young Wenceslaus II was again betrothed to Rudolph's youngest daughter Judith.

Lady Eleanor Butler ( a young widow, daughter of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ) and Edward were alleged to have been precontracted ; both parties were dead by this time, but a clergyman ( named only by Philippe de Commines as Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells ), claimed to have carried out the ceremony.

Susan Howatch's Cashelmara and The Wheel of Fortune, based on the lives of the Plantagenet kings, depict her as a young abused wife and an old widow hidden from her grandchildren in a retirement home run by nuns.

Holbein travelled with Philip Hoby to Brussels and sketched Christina in 1538 for the king, who was appraising the young widow as a prospective bride.

The young king, however, favoured ties with Burgundy, and in 1464 further angered the earl by secretly marrying Elizabeth Woodville ; as an impoverished Lancastrian widow, she was regarded by the Yorkists as an unsuitable queen.

Anne does not want to accept the invitation, but Charlotte convinces her to do so to heighten the contrast between the older woman and the young teenager.

Armfeldt laughs and points out that the night has indeed smiled twice: Henrik and Anne, the young, and Desiree and Fredrik, the fools.

The religious elements in her fiction also owe much to her upbringing, with the experiences of Maggie Tulliver from The Mill on the Floss sharing many similarities with the young Mary Anne Evans's own development.

When Keller was young, Anne Sullivan introduced her to Phillips Brooks, who introduced her to Christianity, Keller famously saying: " I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name!

Although her mother bore eight children, all except Mary and her younger sister Anne died very young, and the King had no legitimate children.

After his son's death, he had initially named his nephew Edward, Earl of Warwick, Clarence's young son and the nephew of Queen Anne Neville, as his heir.

More became the guardian of a young girl named Anne Cresacre, who would eventually marry his son, John More.

Anne made a good impression in the Netherlands with her manners and studiousness, Margaret reported that she was well spoken and pleasant for her young age (" son josne eaige ").

Simon Grynée wrote to Martin Bucer in September 1531 that Anne was " young, good-looking, of a rather dark complexion ".

Anne was recalled to marry her Irish cousin, James Butler, a young man who was several years older than she was and who was living at the English court, in an attempt to settle a dispute over the title and estates of the Earldom of Ormond.

The American historian Retha M. Warnicke writes that Anne was " the perfect woman courtier ... her carriage was graceful and her French clothes were pleasing and stylish ; she danced with ease, had a pleasant singing voice, played the lute and several other musical instruments well, and spoke French fluently ... A remarkable, intelligent, quick-witted young noblewoman ... that first drew people into conversation with her and then amused and entertained them.

During this time, Anne was courted by Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, and entered into a secret betrothal with the young man.

Anne Baxter plays Eve Harrington, a willingly helpful young fan who insinuates herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships.

In early 1687, within a matter of days, Anne miscarried, her husband caught smallpox, and their two young daughters died of the same infection.

* Thomas Grey, Earl of Huntingdon, Marquess of Dorset and Lord Ferrers de Groby ( 1457 – 20 September 1501 ), married firstly Anne Holland, but she died young without issue ; he married secondly on 18 July 1474, Cecily Bonville, suo jure Baroness Harington and Bonville, by whom he had fourteen children.

Anne had so far failed to produce a male heir, and Cromwell, aware that the King was growing impatient and had become enamoured of the young Jane Seymour, acted with ruthless determination, accusing Anne of adultery with several courtiers, including her own brother, Viscount Rochford.

Edward Heath ( known as " Teddy " as a young man ) was born at 54 Albion Road, Broadstairs, Kent, the son of William George Heath, a carpenter and builder, and Edith Anne Heath ( née Pantony ), a maid.

The so-called Gowrie conspiracy of 1600, in which the young Earl of Gowrie, John Ruthven, and his brother Alexander Ruthven were killed by James's attendants for a supposed assault on the King, triggered the dismissal of their sisters Beatrix and Barbara Ruthven as ladies-in-waiting to Anne, with whom they were " in chiefest credit.

In 1963 he received a letter from a young girl in Sheffield, England, named Anne Glenn.

* Pauline Anne ; died young.

* Anne ( Annie ) Strong – The young wife of Dr. Strong.

Louis and Anne of Cyprus had 17 children, 4 of whom died young:

The marriage of Charles VIII to Duchess Anne of Brittany had allowed the eventual return of his fiance, young Margaret, to Burgundy and the care of her step-grandmother the Dowager Duchess ; the Peace of Senlis, which returned her to her family, also returned her dowry of the Counties of Artois and Palatine Burgundy, and laid down that Duke Philip would take up personal rule in the following year when he reached age 16.

Many legends and conjectures have grown up around the notion that the young, unhappily married Wyatt fell in love with the young Anne Boleyn in the early-to-mid 1520s.