Which king has most wives?

Perhaps the most well-known polygamist of all is the wise figure of King Solomon. He is believed to have had around 700 wives, and another 300 concubines, or mistresses.
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Which Indian king has the most wives?

According to Diwan Jarmani Das, Maharaja Bhupinder Singh had 83 children from ten wives out of which only 53 were able to survive. The king had also built a 'swimming pool' outside the palace. The pool is so large that 150 men and women can take a bath together. There used to be great parties here.
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Who has the most number of wives in history?

Zion-a (76), believed to head the world's largest family, with 38 wives and 89 children. Mizoram and his village at Baktawng Tlangnuam has become a major tourist attraction in the state because of the family.
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Which king married many times?

King Henry VIII led a very interesting life and was married six times! Interestingly, King Henry VIII was distantly related to all of them through their ancestor King Edward I of England.
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Who had 100 wives?

Abumbi II, the 11th fon, or king, of Bafut, Cameroon, has close to 100 wives. They weren't all his to start. According to local tradition, when a fon dies, his successor inherits all his wives and then marries his own queens.
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Which king married his own mother?

Oedipus, in Greek mythology, the king of Thebes who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.
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Who has the most husbands in the world?

Glynn “Scotty” Wolfe, 88, the world's most often-married man. Wolfe, a flamboyant, Bible-thumping minister, held the Guinness Book of World Records title on frequent matrimony. He was married 29 times. His widow, Linda Essex-Wolfe, has held the record as world's most often married woman with 23 husbands.
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Who Married most times?

Glynn Wolfe, also known as Scotty Wolfe (July 25, 1908 – June 10, 1997), was a Baptist minister who resided in Blythe, California. He was famous for holding the record for the largest number of monogamous marriages (31). His shortest marriage lasted 19 days, and his longest lasted eleven years.
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Which Indian king has only one wife?

What are some Indian kings and princes who have only one love or wife till their death? The Peshwa king Madhav Rao Peshwa is one of the few rulers of Maharashtra , who had only one wife till he died . Her name was Ramabai Peshwe .
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Who was the most handsome king in India?

CHENNAI: They say that Shah Jahan was the most handsome of all the Mughal emperors. Portraits of him show an aristocratic nose, a high forehead and eyes far less Mongol than that of his father. He was an accomplished rider and a swordsman.
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Who is the biggest family in India?

Ziona Chana had 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren - all of whom lived together in a four-storey pink house with about 100 rooms in Baktawng in Mizoram state.
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Who married the most wives?

Perhaps the most well-known polygamist of all is the wise figure of King Solomon. He is believed to have had around 700 wives, and another 300 concubines, or mistresses.
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How many wives Mughal had?

Portraits of Sixteen wives of Mughal Emperors are shown; they are set in oval frames and arranged around an image of the Diwani Khas–the private audience hall in the Delhi Red Fort.
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How many wives can Muslims have?

Muslim societies allow for up to four wives, but not without specific rules and regulations. In traveling throughout Egypt I had an opportunity to talk with many young women about their views on polygamous unions and their applicability to the modern world.
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Which country has no divorce?

Every nation in the world allows its residents to divorce under some conditions except the Philippines (though Muslims in the Philippines have the right to divorce) and the Vatican City, an ecclesiastical sovereign city-state, which has no procedure for divorce.
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Who has the shortest marriage ever?

A couple in Kuwait reportedly got divorced after just three minutes in Kuwait last month, in what is believed to be the shortest marriage on record. The couple hadn't even left the courthouse where their nuptials had taken place when the woman tripped over and fell.
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Which country produces the best wives?

Russia. Russia can boast the best wives in the world due to their unbelievable diversity. Males can meet women of all races and with a variety of characteristics there. 'Attractive' and 'intelligent are 2 main epithets to describe local ladies.
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What is the longest divorce in history?

17 is anyone's guess. After all, Carol and Warren Rosendale's divorce case – at 12 years and eight months, and counting – has outlasted their marriage.
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  • Warren Rosendale and Carol Walton in 1989, shortly before they married.
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What is perfect age for marriage?

“The ideal age to get married, with the least likelihood of divorce in the first five years, is 28 to 32,” says Carrie Krawiec, a marriage and family therapist at Birmingham Maple Clinic in Troy, Michigan. “Called the 'Goldilocks theory,' the idea is that people at this age are not too old and not too young.”
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Did Kings marry their sisters?

In- deed, probably a majority of 18th Dynasty kings (1570-1397 B.C.) married their sisters or half sisters: Tao II, Ahmose, Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, Thutmose II, Thutmose III, Amenhotep II, and Thutmose IV.
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Who married his own mother in India?

The man, identified as Suraj Mahto, a resident of Puraini village in neighbouring Madhepura district, was initially married to Lalita Devi one-and-a-half-years ago.
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Why did Oedipus sleep with his mother?

The idea of the Oedipus Complex is derived from Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, during which Oedipus learned that he was cursed to kill his father and sleep with his mother.
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