Irene is even more upset when Andronico tells her that she's now betrothed to him, not Tamerlano.

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According to legend, Guinevere, daughter of the Welsh giant Gorgyrfan Gawr, became betrothed to Arthur on hill's grassy slopes.

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Her attendants ushered her forward to stand beside her betrothed while the best man made his peroration from the back of a donkey cart.

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But she had been ordered to leave her betrothed and her chosen profession to become a steel worker hundreds of kilometers from Beijing.

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The protagonist, Ross Poldark, returns from war to find that his father is dead and his betrothed is now arranged to be married to his cousin.

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There's the tyrannical Philippe II of Spain, who marries the French princess Elisabeth de Valois, who was originally betrothed to his son Don Carlos.

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Kirsten Dunst, who even at her ditziest gives off a whiff of the narcoleptic, stars as Marie Antoinette, betrothed as an Austrian teen-ager to the clueless Dauphin of France (Jason Schwartzman).

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