In Blanche's defense, it must be said she was unaware of the newborn hope.

It has been said ( citation: following Blanche's request, " tell me you married me for my bod and not for my money ", the Wizard puts on a lightning conductor hat, grounds it thoroughly, and swears, " may lightning strike me dead ... it was not for your money ( strip of 4 / 30 / 1976, also published in " My Kingdom For A Horsie!

On 23 May 1200, at the age of 12, Louis was married to Blanche of Castile, following prolonged negotiations between Philip Augustus and Blanche's uncle John of England ( as represented in William Shakespeare's historical play King John ).

In consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and John of England, Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis.

Their grandmother Eleanor of Aquitaine, upon getting acquainted with the two sisters, judged that Blanche's personality was more fit for a queen consort of France.

During the English baron's rebellion of 1215-16 against King John, it was Blanche's English ancestry as granddaughter to Henry II that led to Louis being offered the throne of England as Louis I.

By it his daughter and heir Joan was forced to marry Blanche's son, Alfonso.

Terre ' Blanche's grandfather fought as a so-called " Cape Rebel " for the Boer cause in the Second Boer War, and his father was a lieutenant colonel in the South African Defence Force.

Edmund was also a widower, his young wife having died the same year as Blanche's husband.

Robert Rimmer stated, " Little did I know as a growing fetus in Blanche's womb that twenty-nine years later Relief Printing Corporation would own me, and FH, as I began to call him (" Dad " seemed inappropriate when I was finally in business with him ), would be subtly controlling my life.

After Big Daddy died, it was revealed that he and Blanche's long-lost African-American nanny Viola Watkins ( Ruby Dee ) had an affair that lasted for fifty years.

She called out this name on the episode where she had returned to Miami to claim a music box she had given Blanche's father, Big Daddy, when the two of them had an affair while he was married to Blanche's mother.

Rue McClanahan has said that George was the love of Blanche's life, and that her promiscuity was in fact a desperate search for the next love of her life.

Blanche's most frequent ( but only seen once in Season 6 ) date was Mel Bushman ( Alan King ), who was always available whenever she lacked male companionship.

Blanche's seemingly liberated human sexual behavior is a contrast to the sexual climate of the 1980s, when AIDS was beginning to seep into a nation's consciousness.

Throughout the course of the show Blanche's precise age was never told.

During the Mother's Day episode, Blanche's mother says that she was 17 in 1949, which would have put her being born in 1932, roughly.

In one episode, one of Blanche's ex-lovers mentioned her age as 68, although he later admitted that was fabricated.

Blanche's daughter Rebecca was seen most often on the show, although she and Blanche had frequent falling outs and bitter fights.

Blanche's grandson David visited the girls, but was unhappy and rebellious, due to problems in his home life ( his parents fought and ignored him ).

Jane begins to get even crazier, taking Blanche's phone and making her afraid to eat by serving, first, her dead pet bird on a salad and, later, a large rat from the cellar.

* Debra Engle as Blanche's daughter Rebecca Devereaux, who has a baby girl by artificial insemination and appeared in three episodes, seasons 5-7.

He commemorated Blanche with an inscription in the Painted Hall at Chatsworth, which states that he completed his reconstruction of the house in the year of his bereavement, 1840, and by Blanche's Urn at the top of the Long Walk in the garden.

Melissa, Lady Blanche's daughter, has overheard them, but, fascinated by the first men she has ever seen, swears herself to secrecy.

In an episode later in the series, Rose successfully got all of Blanche's documentation, but when she sat down with the other girls to go over the information she had received, in the age columns of all of papers it said " Deleted by Authority of the Governor ", implying Blanche had slept with the governor to get the information regarding her age slipped from her record.

Blanche would awaken John, even at three in the morning, and the feuding would continue with their trademark arguments about John's job, Blanche's domestic abilities, John's alleged eye for neighbor Gloria Gooseby, Blanche's shiftless brother Amos ( played by Thomas ) or John's taste for bourbon.

She is evidently favored and spoiled by her father, while her mother attempts to soften Blanche's anger and envy, by promising that one day her chance at stardom will come.

Jane and Blanche's story is parodied in an apocryphal comic strip in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier by Alan Moore and Kevin O ' Neill.

In 1987 he made a guest appearance on " The Golden Girls " as Jake Smollens, the handsome but rough-around-the edges caterer for Blanche's ( Rue McClanahan ) Hospital Charity Banquet, and in 1988 he guest appeared on " Empty Nest " as Leonard, an old friend of the main character, Dr. Harry Weston ( played by fellow Soap alumnus, Richard Mulligan ), who dates Harry's daughter, Carol ( Dinah Manoff, who also has appeared on Soap ).

Afterwards, she confronts him with hostility, but Homer is able to explain that he was genuinely moved by Blanche's situation.

Blanche's hope of being rescued by Mitch evaporates.

Blanche's grandchildren by her daughter, Philippa:

Blanche's grandchildren by her son, Henry:

Blanche's youngest surviving daughter, Elizabeth, married twice and had children by both husbands.

Blanche's grandchildren by Elizabeth:

Geoffrey Chaucer was commissioned by Gaunt to write a poem after Blanche's death which was titled The Book of the Duchess.

* In episode 26 of The Golden Girls, Rose proclaims Blanche's pregnancy test to be puce in color, and that she once had drapes that color.

Much to Blanche's dismay, he married a young widow named Margaret Spencer ( Sondra Currie ) years after Blanche's mother, Elizabeth, died, but she grudgingly accepted the marriage.

In the episode " Dorothy's Prized Pupil ", Rose became her " wiedenfrugen " ( personal assistant ) to make up for losing Blanche's earrings ( which Blanche actually lost herself while on a romantic date ), and she stated that she hated making Blanche's " stinking tuna fish sandwiches " as a part of her daily task.

In 1871 she visited Merivale, but soon returned to Melbourne for Blanche's birth.

Jane, who has returned home, finds the audio tape and tries to hide Blanche's unconscious body as she finds it at the bottom of the stairs.

A TV retrospective honoring Blanche's old films sends Jane into a jealous rage as she realizes that she is no longer the ingenue she once was.