He himself was married to a commoner and the couple were finally permitted to marry 33 years after they first met, on December 7, 1976 at Drottningholm Palace Chapel.
His struggle nearly 40 years ago to renounce his peerage so that he could sit as a commoner in the elected house seems a small thing now that hereditary peerage itself is on the point of being evicted from Westminster.
In the first part, a teaser with several references to the British event of the decade premiered on August 25, in which a regular can of Brahma beer (the royal) and a glass cup (the commoner) are treated as celebrities, even with speculations about the can possibly being pregnant.
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"One of the commoner causes of sudden death is a pulmonary embolism that may occur a week to ten days later after a thrombosis formed, " Lord says.
Cambodge Soir, a daily, recently reported that he had financed the publication of a book about Sdach Korn, a commoner who, in the 16th century, routed the country's monarchy and created a less hierarchical society.
However, due to Sweden's strict royal succession rules -- which at the time did not permit a contender for the throne to marry a commoner -- King Gustav VI Adolph (the current king's grandfather) would not give his blessing to the union.
Born a commoner, she won the affection of King Louis XV in 1745, becoming his chief mistress and gaining nobility.
The plays reveal an intimate familiarity with court life and manners that Shakespeare, as a commoner, could not have obtained simply by conversations at the Mermaid Tavern.
The American-born son of a half-Chinese commoner accidentally inherits a throne close to extinction and revives it, creating one of the world's most powerful and wealthy monarchies, and surely the only one of any significance to have gained in political power in modern times.
Most of the ponies roaming on Bodmin Moor are in herds and the owner of each herd is traditionally known as a commoner.
Today, in a remote isolated country that considers itself to be the happiest place on earth, a dashing king transformed a beautiful commoner into a queen.
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Malicious gossip is far commoner: mean fictions that once would have circulated in a small group now spread across the world instantly through forwarded e-mails and newsgroups.
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