Or might such intimate knowledge have led to revelations about your prospective spouse that could have altered the course of your subsequent marriage?
Times, Sunday Times
The second ceremony will do no more than expose the prospective spouse to a charge of bigamy.
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Eventually the nobility became too interrelated to marry as the pool of non-related prospective spouses became smaller.
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