The social x-rays do not make a reappearance, but the gold-digging second wives do.

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Cindy McCain and Mrs Thompson are both second wives who are, respectively, 18 and 24 years younger than their husbands.

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French law explicitly outlaws it, and denies second wives the right to join their husbands in France (though if a second wife dies, her children are sometimes allowed to join their French-based father).

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Meanwhile Mr Castelli remarried twice, also opening galleries with his second and third wives, the last as recently as 1998.

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He studied law at Northwestern University, until he was forced to leave over an affair with a teacher's wife (who later became his second of three wives).

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Those women who are unable to find husbands settle for becoming second or third wives in the hope of finding financial protection and respectability, even though neither they nor their children have any legal rights in case of abandonment.

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Unfortunately, while men say they feel more comfortable than ever before with playing second-paycheck fiddle to their wives, the reality is much more complex.

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Second, that the primary driver for wives in their choice of pubs was simple: did the pub have nice, clean ladies rooms?

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On the second floor of the compound were rooms for the older wives and for his various children and grandchildren.

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" The Bard wrote a second play that included Plump Jack, "The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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