12 years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset in front of the castle when her father tells her of a letter he received earlier from his friend General Spielsdorf.

En route to Karnstein, Laura and her father encounter General Spielsdorf.

Many years later, a sultry dark-haired lady leaves her daughter Marcilla ( Ingrid Pitt ) in the care of General von Spielsdorf ( Peter Cushing ) and his family at their Styrian mansion.

Regardless, for Agrippina ’ s seduction, it was a help that she had the niece ’ s privilege of kissing and caressing her paternal uncle.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

After consulting with a priestly doctor who he had specially ordered, the General came to the realization that his niece was being visited by a vampire.

He had accompanied as canon Diego de Acebo, Bishop of Osma on a diplomatic mission to Denmark, to arrange the marriage between the son of King Alfonso VIII of Castile and a niece of King Valdemar II of Denmark.

In Ancient Greece, Spartan King Leonidas I, hero of the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, was married to his niece Gorgo, daughter of his half-brother Cleomenes I. Greek law allowed marriage between a brother and sister if they had different mothers.

In his biography, he mentioned only his sister and his niece, implying that his brother ( or any other siblings for that matter ) either was dead or had no relationship with Beria after he left Merkheuli.

In writing of one miracle associated with Oswald, Bede gives some indication of how Oswald was regarded in conquered lands: years later, when his niece Osthryth moved his bones to Bardney Abbey in Lindsey, its inmates initially refused to accept them, " though they knew him to be a holy man ", because " he was originally of another province, and had reigned over them as a foreign king ", and thus " they retained their ancient aversion to him, even after death ".

She had lived a sad life to this point ; conceived as an attempt to reincarnate her short-lived brother, for the first few years of her life, she was presented as her mother's adopted niece.

Preminger was enjoying his escapades as a freewheeling man-about-town and had begun dating Natalie Draper, a niece of Marion Davies.

She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres.

Among other younger members were Lytton ’ s niece the writer Julia Strachey, and the diarist Frances Partridge who had married into Lytton Strachey ’ s ménage in the 1930s.

" Jesse apparently had no children of his own, and happily provided for his nephews and niece in the unexplained absence of all of their parents ( Gy Waldron, the creator of the show, states on the DVDs that their parents were killed in a car wreck, but it was never mentioned in the show ).

Melisende's connections, especially to her sister Hodierna, and to her niece Constance of Antioch, meant that she had direct influence in northern Syria, a priceless connection since Baldwin had himself broken the treaty with Damascus in 1147.

In what has been called a coup d ' état, the Cardinal of Lorraine and the Duke of Guise — whose niece, Mary, Queen of Scots, had married Francis the year before — seized power the day after Henry II's death and quickly moved themselves into the Louvre with the young couple.

Henry's marriage to Margaret, which had produced no heir, was annulled in 1599 and he married Marie de Medici, the niece of the grand duke of Tuscany.

Though brought up a Lutheran, Queen Anne had in her youth lived with a niece of the Emperor Charles V, and not only knew something of the faith, but had frequently been present at mass with her former friend.

Nepos was married to the niece of Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I, hence his nepos — " nephew " — agnomen, and was named as Emperor in the West by Leo in 474, in order to end the reign of the usurper Glycerius, who had been raised to the throne by the Burgundian magister militum Gundobad in the western capital of Ravenna.

Further convoluting the case is the possible role of propaganda in the surviving accounts: Attalus was executed in Alexander's consolidation of power after the murder ; one might wonder if his enrollment among the conspirators was not for the effect of introducing political expediency in an otherwise messy purge ( Attalus had publicly declared his hope that Alexander would not succeed Philip, but rather that a son of his own niece Eurydice, recently married to Philip and brutally murdered by Olympias after Philip's death, would gain the throne of Macedon ).

His niece Edith ( renamed Matilda ), daughter of Malcolm III and Margaret, had married Henry in 1100.

After Liu Biao's death, a succession struggle for his domain came into being, between his sons Liu Qi and younger son Liu Cong, whom Liu Biao's second wife Lady Cai favored ( because he had married her niece ).

* King Sisyphus was sent to Tartarus for killing guests and travelers to his castle in violation to his hospitality, seducing his niece, and reporting one of Zeus ' sexual conquests by telling the river god Asopus of the whereabouts of his daughter Aegina ( who had been taken away by Zeus ).

Following in the footsteps of Charles of Egmond, Duke William formed an alliance with France, an alliance dubiously cemented via his political marriage to French King Francis I's niece Jeanne d ' Albret ( who reportedly had to be whipped into submission to the marriage, and later bodily carried to the altar by the Constable of France, Anne de Montmorency ).

The following year he was appointed an examiner of Bible knowledge at Woodhouse Grove School, a Wesleyan academy where, aged 35, he met his future wife, Maria Branwell, the headmaster's niece.

Though they only met twice during the first series, the mad Dr. Anton Arcane and his obsession with gaining immortality became Swamp Thing's arch-nemesis, even as Swamp Thing developed a close bond with Arcane's niece Abigail Arcane.

By his own account he had explored the gardens, scaling the kitchen garden wall in the process, and set the staff to work, then ate breakfast with the housekeeper and met his future wife, Sarah Bown, the housekeeper's niece, as he later put it, completing his first morning's work before nine o ' clock.

He met Boski Markus, a Hungarian and the niece of the Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler who became his companion and whom he married in 1925.

As she tried out in an audition to be accepted into the Royal Dance Academy in London, one of the best dance schools in the world, she met Lt. Stone's stuck-up niece Jenny, who was also a dancer, and auditioned for the spot.

Here too, in the early 1790s he had met his wife, a niece of Mrs Hardcastle.

** The children in Ms Frizzle's class were sure that there was nobody like her, but that was before they met her niece, Dottie Frizzle.

It was while working in this position he met his second wife, Julina Lambson, who was a niece of Bathsheba W. Smith, a wife of church apostle George A. Smith.

Soon after, Butlin met and fell in love with Norah Faith Cheriton ( Dolly's niece, born 1914 ).

While in Paris, Blackburn met fellow Kentuckian Julia M. Churchill, who was traveling with her sister and niece.

They later met again while meeting Jee-yeong, and again at the kindergarten where his niece Shin-shin and Jae-hung are students.

Here Clarkson wrote a great part of his ' History of the Ablition of the Slave Trade ', and met his future wife, a niece of Mrs Hardcastle.

During one of her sales journeys she met a family who arranged for her to visit their station west of Townsville in 1929 to care for their niece Maude, who was disabled by polio.

A few weeks after Duncan met Lord Kilwillie's niece Hermione Trumpington-Bonnet via Molly's Dating Agency, they got together, however after he got a job with Hermione at Kilwillie Castle, he was not told the truth about a new Eco-Dome Hermione and her mother-Lady Dorothy were building, so he felt he could not trust Hermione any more and left her.

James Roosevelt, Sr. met his wife at a Roosevelt family gathering in the home of Theodore's mother, and James ' son Franklin married Theodore's niece Eleanor.

At this time, Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind and niece to Cone Maddox, Sr. Director of the Atlanta Cotton Exchange, purchased the home, and then met her untimely death being run down by a taxi in Peachtree Street.

Two years later, he met and fell in love with Otto's niece, Matilda Friedrich, the daughter of Carl Friedrich, the political scientist and constitutional scholar.

In 1897, Sadler married John Kellogg's niece, Lena Celestia Kellogg, a nurse whom he had met four years previously.

While in Samobor, he met Julijana " Ljubica " Cantilly, the niece of his friend and colleague, Ljudevit Gaj.

It was there that he met Leona Vicario, niece of don Agustín, with whom he fell in love.

In 1685 Bernier visited London where he met with some famous exiles from France: Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin, niece of the redoubtable Cardinal ; Saint-Evremond ; others.

In 1628 he was called to Paris, where he married a niece of Simon Vouet, whom he had met in Rome and with whom he collaborated closely in the 1630s, in hôtels particuliers and châteaux in the Ile-de-France, notably Maisons-Lafitte.