The king also had four secondary wives and 10 concubines.

Now he could marry her all over again, dispensing with the need to maintain secondary wives.

Thereafter, secondary wives attempt to be seen in public as single women with children.

However, the children of the secondary wife were not considered heirs to the throne.

If her husband died, she inherited the property rights to the secondary wives.

"He wants me to be a secondary wife," she explained, looking into the fire as she spoke.

Aurangzeb took two secondary wives during his lifetime, but they remained isolated from him.

I gathered that happens often enough here-is she some kind of secondary wife or something?

He might have had another child with one or two "secondary wives".

In the end he spent the three nights at my side and thereafter made me a secondary wife.