Sentence examples for was declared illegitimate from inspiring English sources

In short order Edward was placed in the Tower of London, had his coronation postponed and was then barred from the throne after his parents' marriage was declared illegitimate.

Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and deprived of her place in the royal succession.

Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.

With the Act of Succession 1533, Catherine's daughter, Mary, was declared illegitimate; his marriage to Anne legitimate; and Anne's issue next in the line of succession.

Richard's reign began in 1483 when he was handed the throne after his twelve-year-old nephew Edward V, for whom he was acting as Lord Protector, was declared illegitimate and ineligible for the throne.

Together they devised a new order of succession in which Mary and Elizabeth were declared illegitimate and the crown passed to Lady Jane Grey, the granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister (Mary, duchess of Suffolk) and, incidentally, Northumberland's daughter-in-law.

They want the results of the run-off to be declared illegitimate and to see the appointment of a special envoy to lead mediation, and to prepare for a transitional government and for new, fair, elections.

True, Jews had suffered at the hands of everybody else's and it was bad luck on them if lifeboats were to be declared illegitimate just as it was their turn to jump, but history can be cruel.

An article on Saturday about the waning of support for the recent opposition movement in Russia misstated the surname of a voting monitor for the presidential election who said she and others were disappointed there were so few polling place violations because they had hoped the election could be declared illegitimate.

Abortion research is declared illegitimate in covert and overt ways, at the level of individual researchers and research policy broadly.

First, there was the attempt -- through the "birther" lie -- to make this president into an African, a man not only black but one whose presidency can be declared illegitimate on ostensibly "constitutional" grounds.