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Guidry told me that "Hagar has been pinned as a typical 'welfare queen,' when really, she was a slave who, without agency or power over her own body, was raped and impregnated by her owner at the order of her mistress.
Francois I, who had a demanding mistress, ordered a French translation of Plutarch's biography of Mark Antony in 1517 to bolster the prestige of his courtesan.
Elizabeth I briefly pops up in The Shakespeare Code, immediately recognises The Doctor and, like any wronged mistress, orders his execution.
To punish her, her mistress orders her to return to her hometown of Weibo, where she must murder the provincial governor Tian Ji'an (Chang Chen): her cousin, to whom she was once betrothed.
There is also much in the minutes about Marston's theory of dominance and submission; females, "in their relation to males, expose their bodies and use various legitimate methods of the Love sphere to create in males submission to them, the women mistresses or Love leaders, in order that they, the Mistresses, may submit in passion to the males".
In 796 Constantine roused public opinion by divorcing his wife in order to marry his mistress, Theodote.
Merivel has just agreed to marry the king's mistress in order to preserve her respectability and conceal her continuing relationship with him.
Dismissed an appeal by millionaire racehorse owner Ivan Allan against an order that his former mistress, Glory Anne Clibbery, should be allowed to reveal details of their relationship.
Less than a year later, on 11 December 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry his mistress, Wallis Simpson, who was divorced from her first husband and divorcing her second.
