I am the King's true and legitimate wife".

Some chieftains and high-ranking people had concubines, but they were never considered legitimate wives.

His legitimate wife could remarry, if she had no children through bigamy.

In fact, Muhammad had nothing to hide since the women in question were all his own legitimate wives.

Equally utopian, is the idea that a farmer's daughter could have been raised to the nobility as the legitimate wife of a baron.

This is how he always saw marriage: the legitimate wife who suffers and the mistress who prospers.

She always calls him her "son," as if the legitimate wife were nonexistent.

A pilegesh was recognized among the ancient Hebrews and enjoyed the same rights in the house as the legitimate wife.

A woman (Kay Medford) turns up claiming to be his legitimate wife.

He spent increasingly more time with his second family, further humiliating his legitimate wife.