7 sentences with “wives”

Ramses II ruled for an astonishingly long time and is said to have had some 160 children by wives and concubines.

Solomon also lived in a manner consistent with other Iron Age kings, with many wives and a whole harem of concubines as well.

The wives of craftsmen were often themselves craftswomen, but their work was simply considered part of their husbands' production.

Henry married a staggering total of six wives during his lifetime, with two divorced, two executed, one dying of natural causes, and the last, Catherine Parr, surviving him.

It is for no other reason that men who are on a diet and - unbeknownst to their sleeping wives - get up and try to echolocate the fridge by whistling softly in the darkness of the kitchen, generally end up tripping over the cat.

For the working classes, it was almost impossible for a family to survive on one man's wages, so while men stubbornly insisted on their leadership of the family unit, they were co-dependent on their wives (and, all too often, their children) to work as well.

Even queens tended to have limited access to genuine political power, serving as "queen consorts", wives of kings, and the latter possessed complete political control, much more often than "pregnant queens", rulers in their own right who could share power with their royal spouse.