Wife Collection (page 12)

Death dances and beats a tambour before a Newlywed wife and husband.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death

Carib family of Surinam, 19th century.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Front cover of The Sketch featuring King George VI (1895 - 1952), with his wife and consort, Queen Elizabeth (1900 - 2002), and one of their pet dog Corgis. Date: 1941

German Emperor and Empress Visiting England 1907
German Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858 - 1921), German Empress. On the front cover of The Illustrated London News on a visit to England

Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), renowned Russian cellist and conductor. Seen here with his wife, the Russian soprano Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (b 1926). The couple married in 1955

David Steel, Liberal politician, and his wife Judy
David Steel (David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, b 1938), Liberal and Liberal Democrat MP and Liberal Party leader, Member of the Scottish Parliament and of the House of Lords

Mstislav Rostropovich, renowned Russian cellist
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), renowned Russian cellist and conductor. Seen here (centre) with the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (left) and the English composer Benjamin Britten (right)

Linus Pauling, American chemist, peace activist and writer
Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994), American chemist, peace activist, author and educator, winner of two Nobel Prizes, one for Chemistry in 1954 and one for Peace in 1962

Helene Weigel, German actress with Berliner Ensemble
Helene Weigel (1900-1971), German actress, second wife of the playwright Bertolt Brecht. She joined the Communist Party in 1930

Karl Marx and his wife, Jenny (nee von Westphalen)
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist and revolutionary

Karl Marx with Friedrich Engels and family members
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist and revolutionary (right)

Jennie Lee and Aneurin Bevan
Aneurin Bevan, also known as Nye Bevan (1897-1960), Welsh Labour politician. He served as Minister of Health in the mid-20th century

Jenny Marx, nee von Westphalen, wife of Karl Marx
Jenny Marx (Johanna Bertha Julie "Jenny" Freiin von Westphalen, 1814-1881), wife of Karl Marx. The couple married in 1843, in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. Date: circa 1840s

Mrs Sloper and her Children
The original painting was long regarded as showing Mrs Goddard and her children, with the dead mother in the sky looking down at her daughters on earth

Old Person of Tartary, Edward Lear
There was an Old Person of Tartary, who divided his jugular artery; But he screeched to his wife, and she said, Oh, my life! your death will be felt by all Tartary! First published: 1846

Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918), Empress of Russia and wife of Tsar Nicholas II, together with her son the Tsesarevich Alexei (1905-1918). Date: 1913

Tsesarevich Nikolai with the Danish royal family
Photograph taken at Fredensborg in Denmark in 1864 during the visit of the Tsesarevich Nikolai (1843-1865) of Russia to the Danish royal family

Prince Arthur of Connaught with his family
Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883-1938)with his wife Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (1891-1959) and their only son, Alastair Arthur, Earl of Macduff, 2nd Duke of Connaught (1914-1943)

Lady Grant, nee Miss Margaret Cochran, in costume for the play Polly at the Savoy Theatre, London, 1923. Lady Grant was the wife of Sir Alfred Hamilton Grant

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Lady Dashwood
Lady Dashwood, wife of Sir John Dashwood, is noted in the Sketch as, one of the smartest of the young women in Society. Madame Yevonde was a prolific and ground-breaking society portrait

Princess Helena of Waldeck, Duchess of Albany
Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861-1922), Duchess of Albany and wife of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. They married on 27 April 1882 in St George's Chapel, Windsor

Edwy or Eadwig (?-959), King of England, and his wife Elgiva (Aelfgifu). Their marriage was annulled against their will by Archbishop Dunstan's supporters, for political reasons

Lafayette Escape Events France 1815 Condemned
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Dauphiness Dies Events France 1746 Funeral Notre
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FREDEGONDE ACCUSED
Bishop Praetextatus accuses Fredegonde, mistress/consort of Chilperic king of Neustria after he murdered his wife Galswinthe, of the death of Sigebert king of Austrasia. Date: circa 580

PRINCESS ELLA OF HESSE
PRINCESS ELISABETH OF HESSE nicknamed Ella (1895 - 1903), was the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and his first wife, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha

WLADISLAW IV WEDS
Wladislaw IV Wasa, one of Poland's most militarily successful rulers, weds (after the death of wife Cecilia) Ludwika Maria Gonzaga de Nevers, a French noblewoman. Date: 25 September 1645

TOMB OF NICHOLAS BACON
Similar in concept to a two- berth railway sleeping car, this monument saves space by housing Nicholas Bacon above, Edmund Bacon and his wife beneath. Date: 1579

PLEASANCE SMITH (nee Reeve) wife of sir James E Smith, botanist, depicted when she was aged 24, with another 80 years before her (she will be 104 when she dies !) Date: 1773 - 1877

ROUSSEAU AD WIFE
Jean Jacques Rousseau addresses his wife immediately before his death - to her considerable alarm. Date: 1778

JOHN COLLINGTON: Ne-er-do-well & wife beater, poacher, hiring hitmen & getting others to menace his neighbours. Buried 6 of his dead children in the orchard to save money! Date: 1696/7 - 1750

DUCHESSE DE NEMOURS
VICTOIRE de SAXE-COBURG, duchesse de NEMOURS wife of Louis d'Orleans, son of Louis Philippe : she will die while in exile in England. Date: ? - 1857

COUNTESS OF JERMYN
KATHERINE ISABELLA, countess of JERMYN (nee Manners) wife of Frederick Henry, earl of Jermyn (later second marquess of Bristol, but by that time this lady was dead.) Date: 1809 - 1848

DIANE DE POITIERS MEDAL
DIANE DE POITIERS wife of Louis comte de Maulevrier ; after his death became mistress of the Dauphin, later Henri II, wielding great influence. Date: 1499 - 1566

DIANE DE POITIERS wife of Louis comte de Maulevrier ; after his death became mistress of the Dauphin, later Henri II, wielding great influence. Date: 1499 - 1566

SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD English journalist and author, much liked and respected ; tragically, when his wife dies of illness, he will take his own life in a fit of delirium. Date: 1804 - 1845

MRS ALEXANDER Annie French Hector) Irish wife of archeologist, after whose death she wrote nearly 50 novels and hymns including All things bright & beautiful Date: 1818 - 1895

SAINT PRISCA, a Roman virgin and martyr, may have been the wife of Aquila. Thrown to the lions, one licked her feet, and after her death her corpse was guarded by an eagle. Date: 3rd century

LIGEIA "I would call aloud upon her name"; the narrator calls for his dead wife. Date: First published: 1838

MARIA ALEXANDROVNA (1824 - 1880), married Alexander II in 1841

WAGNER, DIE FEEN
Prince Arindal and his fairy wife, Ada, whose origins he is forbidden to inquire into, but of course curiosity gets the better of him, with the usual consequences... Date: First performed 1834

HUNDING SUSPICIOUS
Act One : Hunding notices the resemblance between his wife Siglind and the visitor, Sigmund (they are indeed brother and sister, and will be lovers)

Hunding Suspicious Music Opera Wagner Die Valkure
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A touch of gout - an elderly gentleman mops his brow whilst his wife and young daughter attend to him Date: Nineteenth century

Amy Robsart Dudley 1532 1560 Wife Robert Earl
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Kaiser Wilhelm Ii 1903 Cartoons Caricatures German
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EGERIA MOURNS
Egeria, wife of Numa, second king of Rome, is so sad when he dies that she turns into a fountain, the Egerian Spring

Sarah Buried Religion Bible Events Old Testament
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