He displayed characteristic delicacy in not wanting to ask Fiona about the whereabouts of my one-time mistress.

He might have written the testament only to harass a one-time mistress, so cynically sure of being wiped out he could throw away all hope of anything more.

Richard's one-time mistress also dies leaving Anne as stepmother to her two young children.

It is a romanticized account of the lives of 16th-century aristocrats Mary Boleyn, one-time mistress of King Henry VIII, and her sister, Queen Anne, who became the monarch's ill-fated second wife, though much history is distorted.

Remembering her one-time mistress, Grushenka had these girls make love to her.

She could have quoted endlessly from the great poet Li Qing-jao, for whom her one-time mistress had been named.

Of Wellington's one-time mistress Princess Dorothea Lieven, wife to the Imperial Russian ambassador to London from 1812 to 1834, she wrote "It is curious that the loves and intrigues of a femme galante should have such influence over the affairs of Europe."

Langtry was also a one-time mistress of the Prince of Wales.

It is also likely not a coincidence that Rachman's one-time mistress, Mandy Rice-Davies, appears in Temple's film as the teenage protagonist's promiscuous mother, who runs the boarding house where she resides and often cuckolds her husband with "gigolo lodgers".

His obituary in the New York Times referred to his well publicized generosity toward his one-time mistress, Rosa Luz Alegría as "a symbol of the era's political decadence."