As the reception gets under way, Gareth ( Simon Callow ) instructs his friends to go forth and seek potential mates ; Fiona's brother, Tom ( James Fleet ), stumbles through an attempt to connect with the minister's wife, while Charles's flatmate, Scarlett ( Charlotte Coleman ), strikes up a conversation with a tall, attractive American named Chester.

As Charles watches Carrie and Hamish dance as husband and wife, Charles's friend Fiona ( Kristin Scott Thomas ) deduces his feelings about Carrie.

However, the family could use money Charles's wife had stocked away in London.

The application of this rule barred Charles's one-year-old daughter Mary by his third wife, Jeanne d ' Évreux, from succeeding as the monarch, but Jeanne was also pregnant at the time of Charles ' death.

Other recurring cast members include Jon Glover as Charles's agent " Maurice "; and Suzanne Burden as his estranged wife " Frances ".

Charles's cause was taken up by the Aragonese, and the king's attempt to make his second wife lieutenant-general was set aside.

Charles Morse ( Anthony Hopkins ), a billionaire with photographic memory, and two other men, Robert " Bob " Green ( Alec Baldwin ), a photographer, and Stephen ( Harold Perrineau ), his assistant, arrive in a remote North America locale via Charles's private jet, along with Charles's much-younger wife, Mickey ( Elle Macpherson ), a beautiful fashion model.

He refused a bribe from Louis XIV, but allowed his wife to accept a gift of 10, 000 crowns ; in 1670 he was the only minister besides the Roman Catholic Clifford to whom the first secret treaty of Dover ( May 1670 ), one clause of which provided for Charles's declaration of his conversion to Romanism, was confided ; and he was the chief actor in the deception practised upon the rest of the council.

The unrest was also being fomented by agents of the Byzantine Emperor Michael Palaeologus who was desperate to thwart Charles's projected invasion of his empire, and of the Aragonese king Peter III, Manfred's son-in-law, who saw his wife Constance as rightful heir to the Sicilian throne.

Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles's marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.

At the séance, she inadvertently summons Charles's first wife, Elvira, who has been dead for seven years.

He was the child of Charles Bradley, an evangelical preacher, and Emma Linton, Charles's second wife.

On arrival John attempted to reach agreement with Charles de Blois to make peace and share Brittany, but Charles's wife Jeanne de Penthièvre urged him to resist and crush John.

Charles's suicide in 1923 when he was 46 years old was a severe shock to his wife and four children.

* Madeleine Forestier ( Du Roy ), Charles's and later Georges's wife who helps her husbands write their articles and has many connections among the powerful

Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern | Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, Charles's wife, was only months older than his daughter.

Her father was Sir Charles Villiers, a merchant banker who was the chairman of British Steel from 1974 until 1988 ; her mother was Sir Charles's second wife, the former Countess Marie Josée de la Barre d ’ Erquelinnes.

Sam's wife, Lady Henrietta ( Bergman ), was a friend of Charles's sister in Ireland.

Her mother was Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset, who had become the fourth wife of Charles's father.

Lady Antonia Fraser ( Charles II, page 82 ) points out that such a match would have taken one of " the last aces " Charles had, his " marriageability " to some foreign princess which, conceivably, could have brought him aid in regaining his throne. On the other hand, Monmouth's biographer J. N. P. Watson (" Captain-General and Rebel Chief ", 127 ) has argued there is a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence to support the marriage between Lucy Walters and Charles, including letters from Charles's sister ( a confidante of Lucy Walters ) in the 1640s which refer to Charles's " wife ".

Grifo, Charles's son by his second wife, Swanahild ( also known as Swanhilde ), demanded a share in the inheritance, but he was imprisoned in a monastery by his two half-brothers.

In 1856, Charles's mother died, and, the following year, his father married Clara Barbour Cummings Hamilton, a cousin of his late wife.

After months of negotiation with Charles VI of France, the Treaty of Troyes recognised Henry V as regent and heir-apparent to the French throne, and he was subsequently married to Charles's daughter, Catherine of Valois.

Negotiations with Portugal for Charles's marriage to Catherine of Braganza began during his father's reign and upon the restoration, Queen Luísa of Portugal, acting as regent, reopened negotiations with England that resulted in an alliance.

By this treaty, Henry married Catherine, the daughter of the current French king, Charles VI, and would then succeed to the French throne upon Charles's death.

In the ensuing war, Charles's sack of Rome ( 1527 ) and virtual imprisonment of Pope Clement VII in 1527 prevented the Pope from annulling the marriage of Henry VIII of England and Charles's aunt Catherine of Aragon, with important consequences.

Charles's illegitimate daughters by Anne Marie Bohier, daughter of Antoine, seigneur de la Rochebourdet, took the veil: Charlotte, bâtarde de Soissons ( d. 1626 ), became abbess of Fontevrault and Catherine, bâtarde de Soissons ( d. 1651 ), became abbess of Perrigne in Maine.

Due to a combination of ( 1 ) the traditions of dynastic succession in Aragon, which permitted maternal inheritance with no precedence for female rule ; ( 2 ) the insanity of Charles's mother, Joanna of Castile ; and ( 3 ) the insistence by his remaining grandfather, Maximilian I, that he take up his royal titles, Charles initiated his reign in Castile and Aragon, a union which evolved into Spain, in conjunction with his mother.

) Had Charles Martel failed, Henry Hallam argued, there would have been no Charlemagne, no Holy Roman Empire or Papal States ; all these depended upon Charles's containment of Islam from expanding into Europe while the Caliphate was unified and able to mount such a conquest.

Charles's next seat was the castle of Vyborg, on Finland's eastern border, where he kept an independent court, taking no heed of Christopher and exercising his own foreign policy in relation to such powers in the region as the Hanseatic League, the Russian city of Novgorod and the Teutonic Knights in what are today Estonia and Latvia.

Although his rule was quite just, unrest was simmering in Sicily because the island played a very subordinate role in Charles's empire — its nobles had no share in the government of their own island and were not compensated by lucrative posts abroad, as were Charles's French, Provençal and Neapolitan subjects ; also the taxes were heavy but they were spent on Charles's wars outside Sicily, making Sicily somewhat of a donor economy to Charles ' nascent empire.

His older brother, Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, died in 1884 with no heirs and Lord Charles's eldest surviving son, Henry Wellesley, inherited his uncle's dukedom.

In July Æthelwulf became engaged to Charles's daughter, Judith, who was no more than fourteen, while Æthelwulf was about fifty years old, and on 1 October 856 they were married at Verberie in northern France.

of the Great Civil War, iv, 325 ) regards Charles Doble's articles as finally disposing of Charles's claim to the authorship, but this is by no means the attitude of other writers.

Goring, who described Clementina as a " bad woman ", complained of being used as " no better than a pimp ", and shortly after left Charles's employ.

Charles's men captured a German trying to swim the Rhine with a message that declared the Emperor Frederick was approaching with a huge army, and Charles redoubled his efforts, to no avail.

Her son, James Crofts ( afterwards Duke of Monmouth and Duke of Buccleuch ), was one of Charles's many acknowledged illegitimate children who became prominent in British political life and society.

The children were being looked after at Wartegg Castle in Switzerland by Charles's step-grandmother Maria Theresa, although Zita managed to see them in Zurich when her son Robert needed an operation for appendicitis.

Charles's own immediate pedigree was exceptionally populated with nieces giving birth to children of their uncles: Charles's mother was a niece of Charles's father, being a daughter of Maria Anna of Spain ( 1606 – 46 ) and Emperor Ferdinand III.

Charlotte sorely missed her mother ( whom she vainly hoped Charles would allow to come to Rome ) and her children, writing to her mother as many as 100 times in a single year ; she also feared that Rohan would take another lover ; all this is revealed in her dispirited letters home, as she awaited Charles's death.

Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.

Charles's son, Charles II, who dated his accession from the death of his father, did not take up the reins of government until the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.

However, when Henry died of suspected typhoid ( or possibly porphyria ) at the age of 18 in 1612, two weeks before Charles's 12th birthday, Charles became heir apparent.

The song " Going to the Chapel " is then played as we see Henrietta marry a member of the guard, Scarlett marry Chester, David marry his girlfriend, Tom marry his distant cousin Deirdre ( whom he met at Charles's wedding and instantly fell for ), Matthew with a new partner ( Duncan Kenworthy ), Fiona marry Prince Charles ( a joke ), and Charles and Carrie with their son -- presumably not married.

Mary's uncle was King Charles II, who ruled the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland ; her maternal grandfather, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, served for a lengthy period as Charles's chief advisor.

At the insistence of Charles, Martin IV excommunicated the Roman Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, who stood in the way of Charles's plans to restore the Latin Empire of the East that had been established in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade.

Meanwhile the papal pact solidified with Charles a promise of papal ships and men, produced by a crusading tithe, and Charles's promise not to lay claims on Imperial lands in northern Italy, nor in the Papal States.

Louis and Charles were also first cousins once removed, Louis's grandmother, Anne of Austria, being sister of Charles's father, Philip IV of Spain.

Both the French and the Allies sent envoys to Charles's camp, and the French hoped to encourage him to turn his troops against the Emperor Joseph I, who Charles felt had slighted him by his support for Augustus.

In 1556, Charles V abdicated in favour of his son Philip II and his brother Ferdinand I. Charles's Italian possessions, including Milan, passed to Philip II and the Spanish line of Habsburgs, while Ferdinand's Austrian line of Habsburgs ruled the Holy Roman Empire.

Francis recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.

The term ' Whig ' entered English political discourse during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678 – 1681 when there was controversy about whether or not King Charles II's brother, James, should be allowed to succeed to the throne on Charles's death.

Paul Davis says the core of Charles's army was a professional infantry which was both highly disciplined and well motivated, " having campaigned with him all over Europe ", buttressed by levies that Charles basically used to raid and disrupt his enemy, and gather food for his infantry.

The numerous reconciliations with the rebellious Lothair and Pepin, as well as their brother Louis the German, King of Bavaria, made Charles's share in Aquitaine and Italy only temporary, but his father did not give up and made Charles the heir of the entire land which was once Gaul and would eventually be France.

Charles XII moved from Saxony into Russia to confront Peter, but the campaign ended with the destruction of the main Swedish army in Poltava ( now Ukraine ), and Charles's exile in Ottoman Bender.

With the death of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold in 1477, the Boulonnais and Artois were seized by the French crown, while Flanders and Hainaut were inherited by Charles's daughter Marie.

These territories formed an integral part of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands as they were defined during the reign of Philip's son, Emperor Charles V, and passed to Charles's son, Philip II of Spain.

Carlsbad or Karlsbad is a German placename meaning " Charles's spa ", named after Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1316 – 1378 ).

Charles's inability to cope with the collapse of the cause led to his problem with drink, and mother and daughter left Charles with James's connivance.