Affianced to the lovely Imoinda, the warrior prince Oroonoko, heir to a west African throne, is obliged to suffer the king his grandfather's insistence on his droit de seigneur.
According to the latest statistics from the United Arab Emirates' Marriage Fund, a government body that provides financial assistance to the affianced, about 60% of women over 30 are unmarried, up from 20% in 1995 a trend that Said al-Kitbi, a government spokesman, calls "very worrying .If it is any comfort, the UAE is far from alone.
The affianced, in turn, are not children in need of a scolding, but are both 29-years-old.
(A newly affianced woman wearing a keepsake that bears what will soon be her maiden name's initials? One doesn't need a psychologist to connect those dots).
Romance, an unincorporated community of over 1,700, enjoys a flutter of publicity every Valentine's Day, when lovers and the affianced make pilgrimages to its tiny post office (there's nothing like a wedding invitation with that postmark).
Is already affianced to a woman he knows well, but seeks to forget this and other minor inconveniences with perfect and irresistible female".
One of hip-hop's natural supporting acts, whose breakthrough hit was a good-natured chant-along homage to his beloved Pittsburgh Steelers football team, Wiz Khalifa has always made for an unlikely crossover star – and an even less convincing bohemian eccentric, the image he has run with since becoming affianced to model Amber Rose.
Evil Queen Ravenna (Theron) used to have a relatively nice sister, Freya Emily Bluntt) who is now with child, courtesy of a nobleman who tragically happens to be affianced to another.
I have in my collection a photograph of Princess Anne's first public kiss by her affianced.
Behold, Earth's most newly affianced power couple, who have emerged from the storms that respectively battered them with their heads held up high.
Given the season, the first example that leaps to mind is a betrothed woman finding herself up the duff, and calmly explaining to her affianced who has not laid a finger on her that there's nothing to worry about as it was all God's doing.
