Li Fengying became a child bride when she was 12. In 1944, she moved to Hongjiang in order to escape from war. She has been making her living by sewing for 20 years.

古商城一甲巷5号李凤英老人12岁当童养媳，1944年因躲避战乱从邵东来到洪江，做缝纫活近20年。

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The bride, who first met the royal prince as a child, refused his first two proposals as she was wary of public life and worried about his moodiness and pronounced stammer.

当新娘在孩提时代第一次见到王子时他拒绝了他的两次求婚。那时的新娘对于公众生活非常谨慎，同时，她也很担心他的喜怒无常以及明显的口吃。

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Anti-child-bride activists looked jubilant when the judge pronounced the couple divorced.

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The tale about a child bride sold into a Straits-Chinese family who beats the odds to become its powerful matriarch, has been performed many times in the past 15 years.

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Mahatma Gandhi, on a stop at the local station, makes an impassioned call for reform which inspires the child-bride and the now bereaved lover to flee the town together and accompany Gandhi to a brighter future.

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The artist says the bride and groom "looked really naive and natural, like a child's fantasy of a bride and groom".

BBC: Newspaper review: A kiss that defined a royal day