Another exception was made in the case of the last royal princess to marry into the British Royal Family: Princess Marina who, being a Princess of Greece and Denmark by birth, reverted to her own princely style (" HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent ") after being widowed, rather than take up the traditional style " HRH The Dowager Duchess of Kent ".

Her sister-in-law ( born The Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott ) was given special dispensation by HM The Queen to use a similar style when she was widowed (" HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ") despite not being a princess by birth, rather than the more usual widow's style, " HRH The Dowager Duchess of Gloucester ".

As early as 989, having been rebuffed in his search for a Byzantine princess, Hugh Capet arranged for Robert to marry the recently widowed daughter of Berengar II of Italy, Rozala, who took the name of Susannah upon becoming Queen.

Charlotte's brother Adolf Friedrich IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and widowed mother, who actively sought a prominent marriage for the young princess, received him with every honour that the little court was capable of showing him, and he returned within a month of his departure after completing all the necessary preliminaries, well pleased with his mission.

On the approach of Antigonus I he retired into winter quarters near Heraclea, marrying its widowed queen Amastris, a Persian princess.

The widowed princess remained a prize for ambitious nobles and adventurers seeking to advance themselves and take control of Jerusalem.

Piła was particularly affected when the widowed Sigismund III Vasa married the pious 17-year old Catholic princess Constance of Austria, Austrian archduchess from the House of Habsburg, in 1605.

As the most beautiful princess of her time — she was nicknamed the " Beautiful Wisdom " ( Belle Sagesse )—, Blanche captivated the recently widowed King Philip VI of France, father of her intended husband and almost forty years her senior.

While in India he saves a widowed princess, named Aouda, from Suttee during her husband's funeral.

After Lady Charlotte had been widowed in 1809 she had been appointed Lady-in-Waiting in the household of the Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen Caroline, when it is believed that she kept a diary, in which she recorded the foibles and failings of the unfortunate princess and other members of the court.

It is said that he discovered the love intrigue between Antonio Pérez and the widowed princess of Eboli, Ana de Mendoza e de la Cerda.

Polly's widowed father, Percy, then arrives at the school to discover that the headmistress, Mme Dubonnet, is an old flame of his.

Charlie, a widowed cab driver whose wife Viv Slater ( April Martin ) died in 1999, arrives in Walford with his mother-in-law Mo Harris ( Laila Morse ), daughters Lynne ( Elaine Lordan ), Kat ( Jessie Wallace ), Little Mo ( Kacey Ainsworth ), and Zoe ( Michelle Ryan ), plus Lynne's boyfriend, Garry Hobbs ( Ricky Groves ).

After five seasons, Phyllis is widowed, learns that her husband had virtually no assets, and moves to San Francisco in the spinoff series Phyllis.

He learns from a private detective that the heart belonged to Cristina's husband and begins to follow the widowed Cristina around town.

Riker also learns that he was married, is now widowed, and has a son ( Chris Demetral ) named Jean-Luc ( named after Picard ).

that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

On 16 May 1691, Kidd married Sarah Bradley Cox Oort, an English woman in her early twenties, who had already been twice widowed and was one of the wealthiest women in New York, largely due to her inheritance from her first husband.

In this respect she seems to have been more diligent than her now widowed and subsequently sainted mother-in-law Queen Matilda whose own charitable activities only achieve a single recorded mention from the period of Eadgyth's time as queen.

Beria's mother, Marta Ivanovna, was a deeply religious, church-going woman ( she spent so much time in church that she died there ); she was previously married and widowed before marrying Beria's father, Pavel Khukhaevich Beria, a landowner from Abkhazia, Georgia.

Spiro had a step-brother, Roy Pollard, from his mother's first marriage ( she was widowed at the time she met Spiro's father ).

Garfield was a self-made man who came from a modest background, having been raised in obscurity on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and endearing brother Thomas, who was nine years his senior.

He sent messengers to Winchester who received the submission of that city from the widowed Queen Edith.

Once widowed, Queen Victoria effectively withdrew from public life.

The widowed queen oversaw the restoration of the remote Castle of Mey on the Caithness coast of Scotland, which she used to " get away from everything " for three weeks in August and ten days in October each year.

Eleanore Erdmuthe was widowed again two years later, after her unfaithful husband contracted smallpox from his mistress.

According to Ramsay, Lafitte, his elder brother Pierre, and his widowed mother migrated from Saint-Domingue to New Orleans in the 1780s.

According to the Midrash, many families in the other Israelite tribes were descended from women from Simeon, which had been widowed from their original Simeonite husbands.

His daughter, Louise, learned religion from her father, and became a nun of the Franciscan Second Order after being widowed at a young age.

To her stepdaughter, Mary, now Duchess of Burgundy, she gave immeasurable guidance and help: using her own experiences in the court of Edward IV, where she had largely avoided being used as a pawn and contributed to the arrangement of her own marriage, she wisely guided the Duchess in deciding her marriage ; against the wave of marriage offers that flooded to the two Duchesses in Ghent ( from the recently widowed Duke of Clarence, from the 7-year old Dauphin of France, Charles, from a brother of Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville ), she stood firm, and advised Mary to marry Maximilian of Habsburg, the 18-year old son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, to whom Charles the Bold had betrothed Mary, and who was ambitious and active enough, in Margaret's opinion, to defend Mary's legacy.

Romanos ( or Romanus ) IV Diogenes ( Greek: Ρωμανός Δ ΄ Διογένης, Rōmanos IV Diogenēs ) was a member of the Byzantine military aristocracy who, after his marriage to the widowed empress Eudokia Makrembolitissa was crowned Byzantine emperor and reigned from 1068 to 1071.

Later in his career, he became better known worldwide as the paternal Steve Douglas, the widowed patriarch on My Three Sons, which ran on ABC from 1960 – 1965 and then on CBS from 1965 – 1972.

In 1831, Thomas, his sisters, and his widowed mother were forced to flee from their home and hide in the nearby woods in the wake of Nat Turner's slave rebellion.

There is an implicit double message: that love could gather all together as we are taught at Church, but also that some of those who on Sundays go to Church and publicly pretend to love are the same ones that from Monday to Saturday belonged to the Ku-Klux-Klan, killed the drunken black boy, got rid of their blinded brother in law or intended to force a widowed mother to part from her children instead of helping her in her troubles.

But Blanche had been able to maintain a serene and assured composure in the face of her widowed mother's continued carping, had been able to resist her urgings to date anyone who offered the slightest possibility of matrimony.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

Mrs. Eleanor Kowalski, 42, died yesterday afternoon in Holy Cross Hospital of burns suffered in a fire that followed a bottled gas explosion Saturday night at the flat of her widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Pankowski, in the adjoining suburb of Warren.

Pizan did not assert her intellectual abilities, or establish her authority as a writer until she was widowed at the age of 24.

Before entering West Point, Poe moved back to Baltimore for a time, to stay with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm ( Poe's first cousin ), his brother Henry, and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe.

In 951, Otto came to the aid of Adelaide, the widowed queen of Italy, defeating her enemies.

After a woman got widowed, her dowry should be returned and a husband could not take on a major debt without his wife giving her consent twice.

The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno ( late emperor ) dies of dysentery.

Lois Marshall moved to Arizona and remained widowed the rest of her life, living on her husband's pension and the $ 50, 000 she earned by selling his memoir to the Bobbs-Merrill publishing company.

* December 5 – Seventeen-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, is widowed by the death of her first husband, King Francis II of France.

The chroniclers exalt her as a " protector of the widowed " and " the thrice blessed ", and place a particular emphasis on Tamar's virtues as a woman: beauty, humility, love of mercy, fidelity, and purity.