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Nelson Mandela, having spent twenty-seven
years in prison, emerged free to find Winnie drifting away. He ended up
marrying Graca Michel, widow of the late Mozambican president Samora
Michel.
F.W. de Klerck, The south African leader who did away with
apartheid, ended his long marriage with Marrike and went into a deep,
passionate relationship with Elatia Georgiadis;
John f Kennedy, married to Jacqueline, did not let familial
responsibilities get in the way of his relationships with other women.
He loved Marilyn Monroe, who was also said to have been romantically
involved with his brother Robert.
Jawaharlal Nehru pursued an abiding relationship with Edwina
Mountbatten, to a point where speculations arose about the nature of his
love for her.But nothing beyond the platonic has been unearthed, so far.
Robert Browning fell in love with Elizabeth Barrett after reading
her poetry. He then met her , they came closer, and then eloped to
create a love story on a grand scale;
Zulficker Ali Bhutto, with two wives, neverthlless found time to
love other women. He cared about Husna Sheikh, a dark beauty from
Bengal, and loved caressing her hair before a fireplace;
Elizabeth Taylor, always a passionate woman, married seven times.
She was married to Richard Burton twice. These days , aged and bulky,
she retains semblances of the old beauty;
William Butler Yeats threw all his lyrical abilities, for years
together, into creating love poems for the Irish nationalist Maud Gonne.
He never got her to reciprocate. But the love in his stayed long;
The writers Henry miller and Anais Nin Were lovers for decades
together. They found both intellectual nourishment and eroticism in each
other;
Bill Clinton's romantic escapades nearly cost him the presidency of
the United States. His ordeal over his links with the young Monica
Lewinasky will forever cast shadow on his reputation;
The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam and his wife Nadezhda pursued an
enduring relationship. But Mandelstam was in love with the poet Anna
Akhmatova too, a reality Nadezhda was aware of. She rather enjoyed it
all;
The soprano Maria Callas loved the Tycoon Aristotle Onassis for
years on end ,until Onassis went off to marry Jacqueline Kennedy in
1968. It is said Callas died of a broken heart only nine years later.
Britain's prince of Wales, Prince Charles, has been in love with Camilla
Parker-Bowles for years, despite being to the late Diana. Theirs is a
relationship of somewhat deep mystery.
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