Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

Athena had an " androgynous compromise " that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history ( such as Marie de ' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great ).

Their one monastery was on the top of Monte Varese, near Lago Maggiore, on the spot where their foundress, the Blessed Catarina Morigia ( or Catherine of Palanza ), had first led a solitary life.

Capp moved to Boston and married Catherine Wingate Cameron, whom he had met earlier in art class.

By 1525 Henry was infatuated with his mistress Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne.

The great scholar Erasmus would later say that Catherine " loved good literature which she had studied with success since childhood ".

By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.

Catherine had lost another son when Henry returned from France.

Catherine had her first vision of Christ when she was age five or six, saying that Jesus smiled at her, blessed her, and left her in ecstasy.

This had taught Catherine the power of fasting in close relationships.

Catherine had received the habit of a Dominican tertiary from the friars of the Order, however, only after vigorous protests from the Tertiaries themselves, who up to that point had been only widows.

Over the years Catherine had eaten less and less, claiming that she found no nourishment in earthly food.

His heirs sent his vast library to Catherine II, who had it deposited at the National Library of Russia.

The two greatest saints of among them are St. Catherine of Siena and St. Rose of Lima, who lived ascetic lives in their family homes, yet both had widespead influence in their societies.

Edvard had an elder sister, Johanne Sophie ( born 1862 ), and three younger siblings: Peter Andreas ( born 1865 ), Laura Catherine ( born 1867 ), and Inger Marie ( born 1868 ).

Her older half-sister, Mary, had lost her position as a legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne and sire a male heir to ensure the Tudor succession.

Ackerman had 50 stories published, including collaborations with A. E. van Vogt, Francis Flagg, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Donald Wollheim and Catherine Moore and the world's shortest – one letter of the alphabet.

Both Warbeck and the Earl of Warwick were too dangerous to keep around even in captivity, and Henry had to execute them in 1499 before Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain would allow their daughter Catherine to come to England and marry his son Arthur.

He married the widowed Catherine of Aragon, and they had several children, but none survived infancy except a daughter, Mary.

" However, Catherine insisted that she and Arthur had never consummated their brief marriage and that the prohibition did not apply here.

His sixth and last marriage was to Catherine Parr, more a nursemaid to him than anything else, as his health was failing ( it had declined ever since the jousting accident in 1536 ).

Humphrey was the oldest of three children ; he had two younger sisters, Frances and Catherine Elizabeth ( Kay ).

Catherine had Pugachev drawn and quartered in Red Square, but the specter of revolution continued to haunt her and her successors.

John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine ( Johnson ) Adams had three sons and a daughter.

When Catherine Chandler ( played by Linda Hamilton ) is abducted, beaten, and slashed and left to die in Central Park upon being mistaken for Carol Stabler, she is rescued and cared for by Vincent ( played by Ron Perlman ) who has taken her to Father ( played by Roy Dotrice ), head of a hidden community of people dwelling in tunnels below the city of New York.

Catherine, forced into a marriage to an unattractive, obese man over 30 years her senior, had never wanted to marry Henry, and conducted an affair with the King's favourite, Thomas Culpeper, while Henry and she were married.

He had a good relationship with his sister Elizabeth, who was a Protestant, albeit a moderate one, but this was strained when Elizabeth was accused of having an affair with the Duke of Somerset's brother, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, the husband of Henry's last wife Catherine Parr.

While Henry and Catherine would eventually produce 10 children together, and despite the occasional affair with such as Philippa Duci, Janet Fleming, and Nicole de Savigny, Diane de Poitiers would remain Henry's lifelong companion.

Catherine, ( with the help of Lady Rochford as a go-between ), begins a desperate affair with Thomas Culpeper, Henry's young and dashing personal aide, who is already overwhelmingly smitten with her.

In her youth she was high in the favour of her uncle, King Henry VIII, but twice incurred the King's anger, first for her unauthorized engagement to Lord Thomas Howard, who died in the Tower of London in 1537 because of his misalliance with her, and again in 1540 for an affair with Thomas Howard's nephew Sir Charles Howard, the brother of Queen consort Catherine Howard.

In 1540 Lady Margaret was again in disgrace with the King when she had an affair with Lord Thomas Howard's half-nephew Sir Charles Howard, the son of Thomas ' elder stepbrother Lord Edmund Howard, and a brother of Henry VIII's fifth Queen, Catherine Howard.

Like Walter's own grandmother, Mary Boleyn too had been a mistress of Henry VIII ; it is up for debate whether Lettice's mother Catherine was conceived during Mary's affair with the King.

His love affair with Margaret of Valois in 1570 offended her brother, Charles IX of France and the Queen Mother, Catherine de ' Medici, but his marriage to Catherine of Cleves restored his fortunes.

Modesta ( better known under her Russian name Matryona ) was publicly whipped and exiled to Siberia after Peter the Great had learnt about her brother's affair with his wife Catherine.

Throughout the Forrest divorce case, which lasted six weeks, several witnesses made additional claims that Catherine Forrest and Nathaniel Parker Willis were having an affair, including a waiter who claimed he had seen the couple " lying on each other ".

A probably later portrait of a 35-year old Potemkin at the height of his love affair with Catherine

Though the love affair appeared to end, Catherine and Potemkin remained in a particularly close friendship, which continued to dominate their lives.

A torrid affair between Nick and Catherine begins with the air of a cat-and-mouse game.

Catherine comes in and explains that she has finished her book, and coldly ends the affair.

Years before the purchase Grigory Orlov had been romantically involved with a young Catherine the Great of Russia, an affair beginning while she was still merely Empress Consort of Russia, married to the Emperor Peter III of Russia.

Their affair continued as Grigory Orlov led the way in the dethronement of her husband in a coup d ' état and the elevation of Catherine to power.

The Prince of Wales Edward Albert, Foreign Secretary Lord Derby Edward Stanley, William Gladstone and his wife Catherine, and American journalist Kate Field attended the formal affair.

In this letter she wishes to know how he is and is troubled that he is ill. Catherine also writes, “ I never longed so muche for thynge as I do to se you and to speke wyth you, the wyche I trust shal be shortely now ,” and “ my trust ys allway in you that you wolbe as you have promysed me ...” These statements cause some audiences to believe that their affair was not one of passion, but rather centred towards Culpeper ’ s political agenda.

Estranged from her and his daughter, he carried on an increasingly public affair with Lady Catherine Somervell, who was his wife in all but name until his death.

Three sexual relationships ( his unsuccessful marriage to Marion, his affair with the liberated Effie, and his doomed relationship with the Beatrice Normandy, a belle dame sans merci whom he has known since childhood and who loves but refuses to marry him ) are analyzed, and also his frustrated love for his stern, austere mother, a domestic servant, and his powerful attachment to his aunt Susan, a character whose depiction is in part a portrait of Wells's second wife, Amy Catherine Robbins ( known as Jane ).

Throughout the Forrest divorce case, which lasted six weeks, several witnesses made additional claims that Catherine Forrest and Nathaniel Parker Willis were having an affair, including a waiter who claimed he had seen the couple " lying on each other ".

The same year, Catherine transferred him to Poland as minister plenipotentiary ; in Warsaw he was rumored to have had an affair with Izabela Fleming ( and to have fathered Adam Jerzy Czartoryski ).

Her character is based on Edward Seymour's first wife, Catherine Fillol, who is rumoured to have had an affair with her father-in-law, and the actual Anne Stanhope.