Word: wed
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...warned his second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, when he embarked upon courting the small, sapphire-eyed Lady Elizabeth. Sure enough, a persistent rumor has it that she rejected the prince's first proposal in 1921. Two years later, however, she decided to accept, and the two were wed amid a trumpeting of pageantry in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth and Albert were in their 14th year of a quiet marriage and were the parents of two girls when Albert's older brother Edward VIII gave up his crown to marry Wallis Simpson, an American who divorced her second husband...
...marriage on that basis. Just last week, Charles and Camilla were together for the first time at Buckingham Palace in the presence of the Queen, at a concert by famed cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Now, with the death of the Queen Mother, Charles and Camilla may feel more free to wed...
...Ball seemed familiar in its contours. He was a lively 85-year-old widower and former Kansas state legislator who made a pile in the stock market. She was half his age, an assistant professor of finance at his alma mater, Park College. Four months after they met they wed...
...assumed she'd lost interest in me," says Shipley, now 84. They didn't speak again for over 50 years. She wed the boy from college on the rebound, had two kids and was divorced seven years later. He married, had three kids and was widowed in 1993. A few months later, at a friend's urging, Kraus called Shipley, who instantly recognized her voice and agreed to come see her in Tulsa. When they met on her front porch, they threw their arms around each other. Both saw the same person they had loved, just older. Six months later...
...discovered she lived nearby. She invited him and his family to meet hers. When he arrived, "he gave me a small kiss on the lips, and we both felt as if hit by lightning." Within six months, they left their spouses, and about a year later, they wed. "What happened to us was a great thing," says Debbie Wade, 46, a Midwest financial manager. "But we regret the hurt we caused our ex-spouses and kids...