In a third experiment, virgin males with two palps were presented with a virgin female, but interestingly, they never mated twice, opting to save a palp for a future mistress.
What happens on a date between the King and the future "Mistress of the Dark?" "There was a lot of making out going on," Peterson admits.
This was Barbara Villiers, the future Lady Castlemaine, mistress to the king, whose sensual, passionate portrait by Peter Lely is one of the most beguiling works in the National Maritime Museum's fascinating exhibition Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution.
In retrospect, it was probably not very helpful that the groom's sometime mistress and future second wife was among the wedding guests.
Ari brought with him his Olympian crowd -- his future wife Jackie Kennedy, divine mistress Maria Kallas and good friend Liz Taylor -- that turned this paradise into a glamor mecca.
Olivier's loopy then wife, Vivien Leigh Lee Roy Rogerss), and his pudgy, pragmatic mistress, Joan Plowright Susan Bennettthe the future Lady O., stir up the cauldron of real and false emotion in the rehearsal room.
In 1355 Afonso ordered the murder of Inês de Castro, the Galician mistress of his heir, the future Peter I, because he feared the influence of her family in Portugal.
"Ten days before my marriage, my future husband told me he had a mistress and that he had decided to continue his relationship with her," she confides.
The Prince of Wales, the future King George IV, started the trend; he and his mistress Maria Fitzherbert exchanged gifts of one painted eye.
"The Mercy Seat," which opens on Wednesday at the Acorn Theater in New York, takes place on Sept. 12, as a married man named Ben (also a father) and his mistress, Abby (also his boss), debate their future.
And in a startling foreshadowing of his great-nephew Prince Charles's much-publicized wish to live inside Mrs. Parker Bowles's trousers, the future Edward VIII reports that he loves it when his mistress wears his jodhpurs.
