A couple of days ago, I spoke to Nicola Heaney, the great-niece of Mortensen, who talked with restrained dignity about the past week and how distressing his widow, Jean, who died a couple of years ago, would have found it.
Debrett's etiquette guide has for centuries provided the rules for handling ticklesome social situations, such as not knowing how to address an envelope to the widow of an earl ("The Dowager Countess of Wherever" should do it, FYI).
After Hughes's death his widow, Carol, asked Reid to edit the letters.
If, while strolling down the street, a recently bereaved widow approached my father and me, her presence required that abrupt channel switch.
With the alacrity of a Widow Twankey suddenly called upon to defend fellow guild-member, Mother Goose, Today's guest editor upheld Woolf's damification as an establishment inevitability.
It's a strategy adopted by Denise van Outen, who tottered into Walford as duplicitous wheeler-dealering widow Karin.
Prosecutor Max Hill QC read a short message from Johnson's widow, Claudia, in which she said: "Thank you so much, it's a big relief to know that justice has been served.
Related: Clint Eastwood cut American Sniper's final scene after request from widow Eastwood, 84, finds himself the toast of Hollywood after American Sniper took more than $535m worldwide and became the US box office's top-grossing film of 2014.
The victim was Mrs Dora Smith, an 82-year-old widow, who was found strangled in her ground-floor flat in Blakelaw, Newcastle upon Tyne, on New Year's Day.
Cooper was speaking alongside co-star Sienna Miller; the film's writer, Jason Hall, and Taya Kyle, Chris's widow.
Tony Blair's former director of communications, who became good friends with Kennedy, tweeted: "To media inquiries to family, can confirm Charles was found by good friend Carole Macdonald, widow of Charles' lifelong best friend Murdo.
