His marriage, in 1980, to a beautiful mulatto divorcée, Michèle Bennett, in a $ 3 million ceremony, provoked widespread opposition, as it was seen as a betrayal of his father's antipathy towards the mulatto elite.

However, a public outcry was brewing among the London populace who saw a sinister irony in the parallels between the conviction of Fisher and that of his patronal namesake, Saint John the Baptist, who was executed by King Herod Antipas for challenging the validity of Herod's marriage to his brother's divorcée Herodias.

Edward had abdicated on 11 December 1936, so that he could marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, whom upon their marriage became The Duchess of Windsor.

At the time of the marriage, the Baroness was not only a Roman Catholic, but also a divorcée.

Avargal ( 1977 ), which follows the life of a divorcée as she traverses relationships in reverse, from divorce, to marriage, to falling in love.

His marriage to a divorcée thirteen years his senior and a commoner, caused a temporary split with his family.

He wrote that the Bohemian princess tried to persuade her husband to accept Christianity ( even at the cost of breaking their marriage and with it the Polish-Bohemian alliance ).

Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood, " are well known for providing shelters, educational assistance, free or low cost medical clinics, housing assistance to students from out of town, student advisory groups, facilitation of inexpensive mass marriage ceremonies to avoid prohibitively costly dowry demands, legal assistance, sports facilities, and women's groups.

However, the social and financial cost of a broken engagement was no less: marriage was the only financially sound option for most women, and if she was no longer a virgin, her prospects for a suitable future marriage were greatly decreased.

After their homecoming, Menelaus and Helen's marriage is strained ; Menelaus continually revisits the human cost of the Trojan War, particularly in light of the fact that Helen could not provide him a male heir.

The demon Mephisto offered to restore Aunt May's health at great personal cost to Peter, his life, and his marriage to his wife, Mary Jane.

The cost of Mephisto's offer was the erasure of Peter and Mary Jane's marriage.

*" aids "-payments to aid the lord in times of need ( customarily given to the lord to cover the cost of knighting of eldest son, marriage of eldest daughter, and for ransoming of lord if required );

At the same time, however, taxation on profits was raised and pensions increased to compensate retirees for a rise in the cost of living, while the allowances for dependent children payable to widows, the unemployed, and the sick, together with marriage and child allowances, were also increased.

Despite these unromantic circumstances, the couple settled amicably in Hanover ( where the cost of living was much lower than in England ), and by all accounts were devoted to each other throughout their marriage.

Both succession issues were solved upon Anne's marriage to Louis XII of France but at the cost of restoring and furthering the independence of Brittany.

However, his domestic failings had their public cost: upon his death his daughter Queen Tar-Ancalimë abandoned his policies of aid to Gil-galad, and let his works lie unmaintained, and her upbringing left her hostile to marriage and domestic life to such a degree that not only was her own personal life blighted, but she brought misery on her female descendants in the first and second degree as well.

However his appointment cost him his marriage to Piper.

Unlike David, Karkes never gets over his fixation on Wanda, and his obsession has cost him his marriage, his finances, and the respect of his colleagues.

One of her first jobs on Broadway was as understudy to Rose Hobart in a production of Trade Winds – a career move that cost her her listing in the New York Social Register ( she later was relisted upon her marriage ).

The affair cost him his marriage to Brooke.

In a later interview, Pagones said the turmoil by the accusations of Brawley and her advisers had cost him his first marriage and much personal grief.

It was revealed that Hayley had applied for, and received, her new birth certificate, and so, after some disagreements about the cost and motives for marriage, the plans were made for the wedding.

Following his " retirement ", the drinking increased, finally to the point where it cost him his marriage.

Ranade was a founder of the Social Conference movement, which he supported till his death, directing his social reform efforts against child marriage, the shaving of widows ' heads, the heavy cost of marriages and other social functions, and the caste restrictions on traveling abroad, and he strenuously advocated widow remarriage and female education.

In the end, the government dropped the marriage proposals, the session clerks were paid to be registrars, and the Treasury met the cost of the new system.

However, before joining Whitesnake for the " Whitesnake 1987 " tour he joined forces with longtime friend and bass player Rudy Sarzo and guitar / keyboard virtuoso Tony MacAlpine to form M. A. R. S., a Shrapnel Records band which not only failed commercially but was a project he personally financed and cost him his marriage.

A letter written by Bedard's niece, Alia Davis, alleged that during their marriage, Wilson maintained control over Bedard's career, and that his abuse had cost her multiple jobs, as she could not work with visible bruises.

Dame Alice Godman, who was related by marriage to Elwes, agreed to underwrite the cost of the work ( co-written by Grove and the botanist A. D. Cotton ) and the first seven parts of the supplement were published between July 1933 and February 1940, with 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates, all but two by Lillian Snelling ( 1879 – 1972 ).

The 30-year-old King explained to Holmes that he intended to marry Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the King of Scandinavia ; the marriage would be threatened if his prior relationship with Adler should come to light.

It transpires that the King is to become engaged to Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen, a young Scandinavian princess, but the King's in-laws-to-be would not allow the marriage should any evidence of his former liaison with an American opera singer, Irene Adler, be revealed to them.

He sang the praises of the house of the Electors of Brandenburg in a collection of poems entitled Kurbrandenburgische Rose, Adler, Lowe und Scepter ( 1661 ), and also produced many occasional poems, several of which became popular ; the most famous of them is " Anke von Tharaw öss, de my geföllt " ( rendered from Low Saxon by Herder into modern German as " Ännchen von Tharau "), composed in 1637 in honor of the marriage of a friend.

During her marriage to Luther Adler she was a sister-in-law to acclaimed stage actress and drama teacher Stella Adler.

Adler fell out with Heine, initially over business ; at this time Heine's marriage was also falling apart, and Sara Heine would eventually become Sara Adler.

In 1890 she divorced Heine, and in 1891 she married Adler, himself recently divorced from a brief second marriage to Dinah Shtettin.

It is therefore not surprising that they resist the lure of marriage and the trap of domesticity, for like cats they are determined not to tame their sexual energy.

The case in the book of Ruth is not the simplest type of Levirate marriage ( Boaz is not Mahlon's brother ); therefore, some scholars refer to Boaz ’ s duty as " Levirate-like " or as a " kinsman-marriage.

God ’ s disappointment towards Israel is therefore expressed through the broken marriage covenant made between husband and wife.

He therefore arranged a discreet marriage in Mexico on 24 November 1924.

The Catholic Church views that Christ himself established the sacrament of marriage at the wedding feast of Cana ; therefore, since it is a divine institution, neither the Church nor state can alter the basic meaning and structure of marriage.

Fengi becomes resentful of his brother ’ s marriage, and also wants sole leadership of Jutland, so therefore murders Orvendil.

Although Oswald had one known son, Æthelwald, it is uncertain whether this was a son from his marriage to Cynegils ' daughter or from an earlier relationship — since Æthelwald began ruling in Deira in 651, it has been argued that a son from this marriage would have been too young at the time to be trusted with this position, and therefore may have been older, the product of a relationship Oswald had during his exile.

The conclusion is what western cultures would call a ' shotgun marriage ', therefore the suitor gets the girl one way or the other.

Courts in New York, North Carolina, and Virginia have ruled that, under applicable state law, ULC ministers are not authorized to solemnize marriages and a marriage at which a ULC minister officiated therefore is not valid.

Adam's sin was understood as sexual impurity ; therefore, marriage was done away with in the body of the Believers in the Second Appearance, which was patterned after the Kingdom of God, in which there would be no marriage or giving in marriage.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo summarizes Block's theory well: " marriage affects men and women very differently in terms of their future earning abilities, and is therefore an important cause of the male / female wage gap ".

Clerical marriage is not allowed and therefore, if those for whom in some particular Church celibacy is optional ( such as permanent deacons in the Latin Church ) wish to marry, they must do so before ordination.

Modern anthropology developed at a time when a great many human societies were non-literate, and much of the research on incest taboos has taken place in societies without legal codes, and, therefore, without written laws concerning marriage and incest.

Ludlow Castle was therefore the site of perhaps the most controversial wedding night in English history, when Catherine's claim that the marriage was never consummated became central to the dispute concerning Henry VIII and Catherine's annulment in 1531.

( In some interpretations of the law, this constitutes consummation of their betrothal, and therefore their marriage.

Newlyweds who wish to change their names upon marriage must therefore go through the same procedure as those changing their names for other reasons.

The investigation also turned up some facts which supported Dorsett's story: documents relating to the sale of Washington's estate list " plates arms U. S ." being sold to Thomas Hammond ( a son-in-law of Charles Washington and therefore a nephew by marriage to George Washington ), and also the Hammond and Dorsett families both had roots in West Virginia just a few miles apart.

Henry therefore promised him the marriage and lands of Dionisia, lady of Châteauroux in Berry.

It has been suggested that Alys had become the mistress of Richard's own father, King Henry II, and possibly the mother of an illegitimate child ; a marriage between Richard and Alys would therefore be technically impossible for religious reasons of affinity.

It is therefore no surprise that the marriage was unpopular.

Such a pre-contract with Eleanor would have meant that the king's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was bigamous and therefore invalid, and that any children born to Edward and Elizabeth would be considered bastards.