deathbed marriage

But this deathbed marriage did not prevent his primary title from being inherited by his younger brother Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

He and his family were engaged in a long-standing and bitter feud that culminated in his deathbed marriage to Myrna C. Ruben and the exclusion of his children from his will.

"There's a difference between a deathbed marriage and a marriage to a dead person," said Francois Heisbourg, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, noting that Hungary's newly elected parliament voted a week ago, 232 to 0, to leave the Warsaw Pact by the end of 1991 because it has no reason to exist.