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Poets of a later generation invented the story of the secret marriage of his sister Ximena to Sancho, count of Saldana, and the feats of their son Bernardo del Carpio.
He also publicized the previously secret practice of plural marriage, a form of polygamy.
The marriage was held in a secret ceremony but soon became known.
Beatty's birth certificate recorded his mother's surname as Beatty, and their eventual marriage at St Michael's Church, Liverpool was kept secret.
Jones later stated, in Tiger Beat magazine, " I kept my marriage a secret because I believe stars should be allowed a private life.
In Baruya culture, there is a secret ritual in which boys give fellatio to young males and drink their semen, to " re-engender themselves prior to marriage ".
In 1852 church leaders publicized the previously secret practice of plural marriage, a form of polygamy.
The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army.
Finally, just as Aeschylus gave Prometheus a key role in bringing Zeus to power, he also attributed to him secret knowledge that could lead to Zeus's downfall: Prometheus had been told by his mother Gaia of a potential marriage that would produce a son who would overthrow Zeus.
This was a festival of secret women-only rituals connected with marriage customs and commemorated the third of the year, in the month Pyanepsion, when Kore was abducted and Demeter abstained from her role as goddess of harvest and growth.
The double marriage was to be done in secret, however, to avoid public scandal.
Tudor was the son of Welsh courtier Owen Tudor () and Katherine of Valois, widowed Queen Consort of the Lancastrian King Henry V. Edmund Tudor and his siblings were either illegitimate, or the product of a secret marriage, and owed their fortunes to the good will of their legitimate half-brother King Henry VI.
The husband continued to visit his wife in secret for some time after the marriage.
* May 1 – Edward IV of England secretly marries Elizabeth Woodville, and keeps the marriage a secret for 5 months afterwards.
When confronted by the Barons about the secret marriage that Henry had allowed to happen, a feud developed between the two.
She was the daughter of King Charles VI of France, wife of Henry V of Monmouth, King of England, mother of Henry VI, King of England and King of France, and through her secret marriage with Owen Tudor, the grandmother of King Henry VII of England.
At around the time of Edward's secret marriage, Warwick was negotiating an alliance with France in an effort to thwart a similar arrangement being made by his sworn enemy Margaret of Anjou, wife of the deposed Henry VI.
They became estranged when Edward spurned the French diplomatic marriage that Warwick was seeking for him and instead married Elizabeth Woodville, widow of an obscure Lancastrian gentleman, in secret in 1464.
Formerly a key figure in the Yorkist cause, Warwick defected to the Lancastrians over disagreements about Edward's nepotism, secret marriage, and foreign policy.
Moreover, there was a French practice, legally distinct from morganatic marriage but used in similar situations of inequality in status between a member of the royal family and a spouse of lower rank: an " openly secret " marriage.
The mechanism of the " secret marriage " rendered it unnecessary for France to legislate the morganatic marriage per se.
She married one of her guards in a secret marriage.

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Louis XVI had made secret requests to Emperor Joseph II of Austria, Marie-Antoinette's brother, to restore him to his throne.
But Amadeus, doubtful of victory and now more fearful of Habsburg influence in Italy than he was of French, had begun secret dealings with Louis XIV aimed at extricating himself from the war.
The Duke also insisted to his companions that his death be kept a secret until Louis was informed – the men were to journey from Saint James across the Pyrenees as quickly as possible, to call at Bordeaux to notify the Archbishop, and then to make all speed to Paris, to inform the King.
The Congress was a personal triumph for Francis, where he hosted the assorted dignitaries in comfort, though Francis undermined his allies Tsar Alexander and Frederick William III of Prussia by negotiating a secret treaty with the restored French king Louis XVIII.
* 1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
Under Prince Louis ' secret orders, the Monaco police, often at great risk to themselves, warned in advance those people whom the Gestapo planned to arrest.
* Louis XIV is married to Madame de Maintenon in a secret ceremony.
* November 13 – Treaty of Fontainebleau, a secret agreement in which Louis XV of France cedes Louisiana ( New France ) to Charles III of Spain.
In the fifth season, the character of Dan Humphrey is gifted a copy of The Stranger by Louis Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco, in exchange for keeping a secret.
In 1670, Charles entered into the secret treaty of Dover, an alliance with his first cousin King Louis XIV of France.
But Louis VII's interest lay in Jerusalem, and so he slipped out of Antioch in secret.
The caption refers to the date of the Tennis Court Oath and concludes " The same Louis XVI who bravely waits until his fellow citizens return to their hearths to plan a secret war and exact his revenge.
That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask, based on the same-titled 1939 film.
During his brief tenure as regent, Charles created an ultra-royalist secret police, that reported directly back to him without Louis XVIII's knowledge.
However, as he was bound by the secret Treaty of Dover, Charles II was obliged to assist Louis XIV in his attack on The Republic in the Franco-Dutch War.
On 18 April he concluded his first secret treaty with Louis, stipulating that England would support a French conquest of the Spanish Netherlands.
The conspirators also most likely had the secret support of Prince Louis de Condé, the younger ambitious brother of king Antoine of Navarre.
In 1969 Warren learned that Fortas had made a secret lifetime contract for $ 20, 000 a year to provide private legal advice to Louis Wolfson, a friend and financier in deep legal trouble ; Warren immediately asked Fortas to resign.
Marie's conduct was such that she forced her son to banish her from France, where she was encouraging her other son, Gaston, to rebel ; and the victory Richelieu at last won over her ( on the Day of the Dupes ) was due solely to the discovery the cardinal made, and imparted to Louis XIII, of secret documents relating to the death of Henry IV.
) However, to induce his wife to like his new acquisition, Louis XVI commissioned in great secret the construction of the renowned Laiterie de la Reine, ( the Queen's dairy ), where the buckets were of Sèvres porcelain, painted and grained to imitate wood, and the presiding nymph was a marble Amalthea, with the goat that nurtured Jupiter, sculpted by Pierre Julien.
Although England, the Dutch Republic and Sweden had signed a Triple Alliance against France in 1668 to prevent that country from occupying the Spanish Netherlands, Charles II of England signed the secret Treaty of Dover with France in 1670, entailing that England would join Louis XIV of France in a punitive campaign against the United Provinces.
The assignment had helped Churchill develop a breadth of experience that other mere soldiers were never to achieve, yet because of the duplicitous dealings of Charles II's secret negotiations with Louis XIV ( Charles had no intention of waging war against France ), the mission ultimately proved abortive.

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