Each lady of the Harem struggled to have her son proclaimed heir to the throne, which would assure her own role as the new valide sultan.
Five years ago he saw her as the heir to his control position, and the two were each other's biggest supporters.
Separately and together, he and his sometime lover and regular companion, Giancarlo Giammetti, made sure to greet and double-cheek kiss friends and supporters sitting at all the tables in their area, ranging from the young (the former reality-television star Olivia Palermo, the Brant brothers, the model Jessica Hart and her shipping-heir boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos) to the established (the interior designer Mica Ertegun, Barbara Walters, the Texan philanthropist Lynn Wyatt, the Greek businesswoman Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki).
He is married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, heir to her late husband H.
DiDonato has become perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation, the heir apparent to the great Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.
He told her he was an heir to the Rockefeller fortune but was on the outs with the rest of his relatives and never saw them.
By degrees, Bernie becomes her friend and business manager, and, eventually, her travelling companion and sole heir.
She has no heir-apparent: her vice-president, Amado Boudou, has been hamstrung by corruption accusations, and her son has never run for office.
Irish President Mary McAleese welcomed the heir to the throne at her official residence in Dublin's Phoenix Park for lunch.
To be sure, eldest daughter Mary, who has now wed that distantly related heir, seems dead set on raising her brood in Downton.
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It was not until the 1995 municipal elections that she fought her first electoral battle, becoming deputy, and heir-apparent, to Pierre Mauroy, mayor since 1973 of Lille.
Many blame her ill-health on the pressure to produce a male heir .
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She quit the company two years later and now has her own U.K.-based production company. (Just last week, her brother Lachlan Murdoch , his father's more recent heir apparent, followed suit, quitting News Corp.) Still, it seems fairly certain that these women are making their wealthy fathers proud.
For someone who fashions herself as an heir to William Allen White, there was an irony in her defeat.
But when her family's brewery, established in 1873, lacked a male heir, this graduate student in computer programming decided to pick up the family business.
But Fiorina is making her first big bet in printing in a way that could well rile the prickly heir.
Christy Walton, the richest of the new billionaires in 2006, took on her fortune from her husband John, who died last June and was himself a Wal-Mart Stores heir.
Almost as soon as they returned from their honeymoon, royal watchers began looking for signs that Masako was bearing an heir (of course, the possibility remains that even if she became pregnant, her child might be a girl too).
Ralph Fiennes plays her husband in a clever and, one suspects, accurate portrayal of a chilly pragmatist bent on producing an heir.
With Richard Gere, as the publishing heir and public-relations whiz George Putnam, who packages Earhart into a national celebrity and then marries her, and Ewan McGregor, as the aeronautics executive Gene Vidal, with whom she has an affair.
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