James, who was supportive of Frederick, and had been seeking marriage between the new Prince of Wales and the Spanish Infanta, Maria Anna of Spain, since Prince Henry's death, began to see the Spanish Match as a possible means of achieving peace in Europe.

In August 1730 he gave permission for Victor Amadeus II of Savoy to carry out a morganatic marriage to Anna Canalis di Cumiana.

This second marriage was enduring and happy, though childless, and Laura became stepmother to Anna and Laurence.

Gifts or promises had won the support of the Rhenish and Swabian towns ; a marriage alliance secured the friendship of the Habsburgs ; and an alliance with Rudolf II of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine, was obtained when Charles, who had become a widower in 1348, married his daughter Anna.

It has been suggested that he was a child begotten out of wedlock after Volodymyr's divorce from Rogneda and marriage to Anna Porphyrogeneta, or even that he was a child of Anna Porphyrogeneta herself.

During the marriage, London continued his friendship with Anna Strunsky, co-authoring The Kempton-Wace Letters, an epistolary novel contrasting two philosophies of love.

Anna, writing " Dane Kempton's " letters, arguing for a romantic view of marriage, while London, writing " Herbert Wace's " letters, argued for a scientific view, based on Darwinism and eugenics.

The marriage was not a happy one, but produced one son: the future Emperor Paul ; and one daughter: Anna Petrovna ( 20 December 1757 – 19 March 1759 ).

Anna herself objected to marrying a barbarian ruler, as such a marriage would have no precedence in imperial annals.

Aaron was tempted with Basil's offer of his own sister Anna in marriage ( the same Anna wed to Vladimir I of Kiev, two years later ), but the negotiations failed when Aaron discovered that the bride he was sent was a fake.

By all accounts, infidelity was responsible for the breakup of van Meegeren ’ s marriage to Anna de Voogt ; they were divorced on 19 July 1923.

The marriage broke down after he admitted to falling in love with 26-year-old student Anna Söderström.

Because Edward John Pratt was also an Anglo-Indian, Anna Edwards never approved of her sister's marriage, and her disconnect from the family was so complete that decades later, when a Pratt relative contacted her, she replied threatening suicide if he persisted.

He had a daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger ( born in 1960 ) by Bloom, and a son, Michael Steiger ( born in 1993 ), from his marriage to Ellis.

Around 1218 his father arranged his marriage with Princess Anna, daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia ; this union with the royal Přemyslid dynasty allowed Henry II to participate actively in international politics.

* Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, future King of Sicily and later Sardinia ; married Anne Marie d ' Orléans and had issue ; had illegitimate issue also ; married Anna Teresa Canalis di Cumania in a morganatic marriage ;

After their engagement, or more likely marriage under Norwegian law, Anna left with Bothwell.

The first marriage to Anna of Moscow, daughter of Grand Prince Basil I of Moscow ( 1389 – 1425 ) and Sophia of Lithuania, in 1414.

William had his previous marriage legally disbanded in 1571, on claims that his wife Anna was insane.

The other major event of Gluck's stay in Prague was, on 15 September 1750, his marriage to Maria Anna Bergin, aged 18 years old, the daughter of a rich but long-dead Viennese merchant.

Maria of Nassau ( 1556 – 1616 ), was a full sister of Philip William from the first marriage of William I, Prince of Orange, ( assassinated 1584 ), to wealthy and powerful aristocrat Anna van Egmont, ( 1533 – 1558 ), and a furious contender to Maurice of Nassau.

Eric also made unsuccessful marriage proposals to, among others, Mary, Queen of Scots ( 1542 – 87 ), Renata of Lorraine ( 1544 – 1602 ), Anna of Saxony ( 1544 – 77 ) and Christine of Hesse ( 1543 – 1604 ).

With the ending of the marriage Anna Strauss determined to further Johann Strauss II's musical career, allowing him to develop his skills as a composer.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

Agrippina did this hoping to secure a marriage between Octavia and her son.

This reconciled the political parties but did not reconcile the army which, already dissatisfied with the king's marriage, became still more so at the rumors that one of the two unpopular brothers of Queen Draga, Lieutenant Nikodije, was to be proclaimed heir-presumptive to the throne.

At the marriage of Alexander to Margaret of England in 1251, Henry III of England seized the opportunity to demand from his son-in-law homage for the Scottish kingdom, but Alexander did not comply.

One of the terms of the marriage contract agreed to by Alexei was that while any forthcoming children were to be raised in the Orthodox faith, Charlotte herself was allowed to retain her Protestant faith ( an agreement that did not sit well at all with Alexei's followers ).

The Duchess converted to Roman Catholicism on 14 January 1994, but her husband did not lose his place in the succession, as the Duchess had been an Anglican at the time of their marriage.

By the summer of 1912 Heelis had proposed marriage and Beatrix had accepted, although she did not immediately tell her parents who once again disapproved because Heelis was only a country solicitor.

As another example, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1877, held that a Michigan statute that established rules for solemnization of marriages did not abolish pre-existing common-law marriage, because the statute did not affirmatively require statutory solemnization and was silent as to preexisting common law.

Romans did not mark same-sex relations as " homosexual " if an adult male used a slave or prostitute, characteristically a youth, as his passive partner ( see Homosexuality in ancient Rome ); these relations, however, were expected to play a secondary role to marriage, within which institution an adult male demonstrated his masculine authority as head of household ( paterfamilias ).

Chardin entered into a marriage contract with Marguerite Saintard in 1723, whom he did not marry until 1731.

Talmage's work did not contain the section on plural marriage.

When this marriage unraveled, Comden complained that Day cared more for her " animal friends " than she did for him.

Pope Eugenius III did not, as Eleanor had hoped, grant an annulment ; instead, he attempted to reconcile Eleanor and Louis, confirming the legality of their marriage, and proclaiming that no word could be spoken against it, and that it might not be dissolved under any pretext.

Protracted negotiations to arrange a match between his daughter Elizabeth and the Earl of Southhampton did not result in marriage ; in 19 November 1594, six weeks after Southampton turned 21, ' the young Earl of Southampton, refusing the Lady Vere, payeth £ 5000 of present money '.

When Charles finally did propose marriage to Amanda later in 1979, the circumstances were tragically changed, and she refused him.

They did begin dating after Brooks's divorce, and married on December 10, 2005, at their home in Oklahoma, marking the second marriage for Brooks and the third for Yearwood.

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

The Scottish Hebrides, particularly in the Isle of Skye, show some records of a ' Handfast " or " left-handed " marriage taking place as recently as the late 1600s where the Gaelic scholar, Martin Martin, notes " It was an ancient custom in the Isles that a man take a maid as his wife and keep her for the space of a year without marrying her ; and if she pleased him all the while, he married her at the end of the year and legitimatised her children ; but if he did not love her, he returned her to her parents.

If intercourse did take place, then the sponsalia de futuro “ was automatically converted into de iure marriage ”.

Caesar continued his relationship with Cleopatra throughout his last marriage, which lasted fourteen years – in Roman eyes, this did not constitute adultery – and may have fathered a son called Caesarion.

The earliest use of the phrase is a quote from the Westminster Magazine of 1774: " He had no inclination for a Broomstick-marriage ", the person in question simply stating that he did not want to go through a ceremony that had no legal validity, it having been suggested to him that he would pretend to be marrying by having a French sexton read the marriage service to him and his young bride.

" A decade later, the 1836 Marriage Act, which introduced civil marriage, was contemptuously referred to as the ‘ Broomstick Marriage Act ’ by those who felt that a marriage outside the Anglican church did not deserve legal recognition.