Aishwarya Rai Personal life Did Rai marry? The couple married on 20 April 2007 according to traditional Hindu rites of the Bunt community, to which she belongs. Did they have any children? Rai gave birth to a girl, Aradhya, on 16 November 2011.
Did she have any other children?
Did Aishwarya Rai have any other children in addition to her daughter?
In 1999, Rai began dating Bollywood actor Salman Khan; their relationship was often reported in the media until the couple separated in 2002. Rai cited "abuse (verbal, physical and emotional), infidelity and indignity" on the part of Khan as reasons for ending the relationship.  Though they both appeared in Dhai Akshar Prem Ke (in which her then longtime boyfriend, Salman Khan, had a brief cameo) and Kuch Naa Kaho. Rai dated her Kyun! Ho Gaya Na...co-star Vivek Oberoi. In 2003, Oberoi claimed that Rai's former boyfriend Salman Khan had threatened him, Oberoi and Rai broke up not long afterwards. Abhishek Bachchan fell in love with Rai whilst filming Dhoom 2. Their engagement was announced on 14 January 2007 and later confirmed by his father, Amitabh Bachchan. The couple married on 20 April 2007 according to traditional Hindu rites of the Bunt community, to which she belongs. Token North Indian and Bengali ceremonies were also performed. The wedding took place in a private ceremony at the Bachchan residence, "Prateeksha", in Juhu, Mumbai. They have been described as a supercouple in the Indian media. Rai is very close to her family and lived with them in Bandra, Mumbai, until her marriage.  Rai is Hindu and deeply religious. Her international presence shot up when Abhishek Bachchan accompanied her to the Cannes Film Festival shortly after their marriage, and later to The Oprah Winfrey Show, appearing on 28 September 2009. They were described as being more famous as a couple than Brangelina.  Rai gave birth to a girl, Aradhya, on 16 November 2011. Rai is commonly referred to by fans and the media by the nicknames "Ash" and "Aish", but has stated that she dislikes being called as such. She has discouraged people from referring to her by names other than "Aishwarya" as she does not want to "spoil [her] good name". CANNOTANSWER
Aradhya,
Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny (born 17 September 1930) is the former First Lady of Ivory Coast. Her husband was Félix Houphouët-Boigny, the first President of Côte d'Ivoire from 1962 to 1993.

She was born Marie-Thérèse Brou in 1930 in a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, French West Africa. She was one of her parents' six children. When Brou was 16 years old, she and nineteen other Ivorian girls were chosen to attend private school in France. While living in France, she met and married her husband, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, when she was 21 years old. Houphouët-Boigny was more than 25 years older than her.

Houphouët-Boigny caught the eye of the media during 1962 visit to the Kennedy White House, and was dubbed "Africa's Jackie" or 'Black Jackie Kennedy" by the media. In 1987, Houphouët-Boigny founded the N'Daya International Foundation, dedicated to improving the health, welfare, and education of children in Africa. As the Foundation's president, she led numerous projects in support of children. In 1990, she helped create and produce Kimboo, a cartoon series aired on BET, to offer cartoon heroes to African children.

Houphouët-Boigny was the first lady of the Ivory Coast for 33 years, until her husband's death in 1993. Félix and Marie-Thérèse did not have any biological children, but adopted three children together.

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1930 births
First Ladies of Ivory Coast Mamani kaPhahlo was a Queen of the Mpondomise in her own right from the 1750s, following after her father King Phahlo. She is also known as Mbingwa. As the eldest among 3 daughters of the Great Wife of King Phahlo, she successfully challenged her half-brothers from the smaller houses for the throne upon the death of her father. Although, she married Ntsibatha, a Mpondo Princess, she passed on without issue. She was succeeded by one of her brothers, Sontlo, who she installed in her position despite challenges from some royal family members

Early life and family
Mamani (sometimes called Mbingwa) was born to the King of the Mpondomise, Phahlo, and a Xesibe Princess whose name is sadly not known. Mamani's mother was the Great Wife. To her mother, she was the eldest of 3 daughters and did not have any brothers.  Her father had sons with his other wives.  Her birth and death dates are unknown.

One of Mamani's sisters, Thandela, married the Xhosa King Phalo and was the mother of Gcaleka. Gcaleka later became the King of the Xhosas. Not much is known about the other sister.

Ascending to the throne and reign
In the 1750s Mamani's father, Phahlo, passed on. Traditionally her father was meant to be succeeded by a child of the Great Wife. However, custom dictated that the heir needed to be a male heir. If the Great Wife did not have male children, like Mamani's mother, then a male heir would be searched for among the children of the other wives, starting with the wife married to the king for the longest (i.e. most senior wife) followed by the junior wives (according their seniority), until a son is found. If a son is not found then one of the king's brothers (preference given to the oldest brother and his male-descendants, then moving down to the youngest brother) would assume the position. 

However the Great Wife of Phahlo did not have any male children. Defy tradition and custom, as the eldest of the 3 daughters of Phahlo's Great Wife, Mamani ascended the throne upon the death of her father. This event triggered the saying among historians who write about the Mpondomise "the woman who became a king". 

When dissenters rose against her, she killed them. She mounted armies against those who challenged her authority too. Her reign was felt throughout the lands of the Mpondomise (from uMthatha to Umzimkhulu. She was a strong monarch.

Marriage and issue 
Despite being a woman herself, Mamani married a Princess from the Mpondo kingdom, the daughter of King Nyawuza called Ntsibatha. Instead of consummating the marriage herself, she asked her dearest brother, Sontlo, to do it. Sontlo was the son of Mamani's maternal aunt and Mamani's father, Phahlo.

Successor
Gradually she began to hand over monarchal duties to Sontlo, while, she actively influenced the successful transition of power to him. Thus, Sontlo became her successor while she was alive and continued to reign upon her death.

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African queens Else Hansen (Cathrine Marie Mahs Hansen) also called de Hansen (1720 – 4 September 1784), was the royal mistress of king Frederick V of Denmark.  She is his most famous mistress and known in history as Madam Hansen, and was, alongside Charlotte Amalie Winge, one of only two women known to have been long term lovers of the king.

Life

The background of Else Hansen does not appear to be known.  Tradition claims her to be the sister of Frederick's chamber servant Henrik Vilhelm Tillisch, who in 1743 reportedly smuggled in his sister to the king at night, but modern research does not support them to be the same person.

Royal mistress
It is not known exactly when and how Hansen became the lover of the king.  Frederick V was known for his debauched life style.   According to Dorothea Biehl, the king was known to participate in orgies or 'Bacchus parties', in which he drank alcohol with his male friends while watching female prostitutes stripped naked and danced, after which the king would sometime beat them with his stick and whip them after having been intoxicated by alcohol. These women where economically compensated, but none of them seem to have had any status of a long term mistress, nor did any of the noblewomen and maids-of-honors, which according to rumors where offered to the king by their families in hope of advantages but simply married of as soon as they became pregnant without any potential relationship having been anything but a secret. The relationship between the king and Else Hansen was therefore uncommon.

Else Hansen gave birth to five children with the king between 1746 and 1751, which is why the affair is presumed to have started in 1746 at the latest and ended in 1751 at the earliest.   At least her three younger children where all born at the manor Ulriksholm on Funen, a manor owned by Ulrik Frederik von Heinen, brother-in-law of the de facto ruler of Denmark, the kings favorite Adam Gottlob Moltke, who likely arranged the matter.  The manor was named after the royal Ulrik Christian Gyldenlove, illegitimate son of a previous king.   The king's children with Hansen where baptized in the local parish church near the manor, where they were officially listed as the legitimate children of the wife of a non existent man called "Frederick Hansen, ship writer from Gothenburg to China". The frequent trips to Ulriksholm by Hansen as soon as her pregnancies with the king became evident was publicly noted.   Neither Else Hansen nor any other of the king's mistresses where ever any official mistress introduced at the royal court, nor did they have any influence upon state affairs whatever, as politics where entrusted by the king to his favorite Moltke.

In 1752, the relationship between the king and Hansen may have ended – in any case, it was not mentioned more or resulted in any more children.  She settled in the property Kejrup near Ulriksholm with her children, officially with the status of "widow of the late sea captain de Hansen".

Later life
After the death of Frederick in 1766, she acquired the estate Klarskov on Funen. She sold Klarskov and moved to Odense in 1768.  In 1771, however, she bought Klarskov a second time and continued to live there until her death.

Her children were not officially recognized, but unofficially they were taken care of by the royal court: her daughters were given a dowry and married to royal officials and the sons careers where protected, and her grandchildren where also provided with an allowance from the royal house.

After Hansen, the king did not have any long term mistress until Charlotte Amalie Winge (1762–66).

Legacy
At Frederiksborgmuseet, there are three paintings of Hansen by Jens Thrane the younger from 1764. Hansen is known by Dorothea Biehl's depiction of the decadent court life of Frederick V.

Issue 
Her children were officially listed with the father "Frederick Hansen, sea captain".
Frederikke Margarethe de Hansen (1747–1802)
Frederikke Catherine de Hansen (1748–1822)
Anna Marie de Hansen (1749–1812)
Sophie Charlotte de Hansen (1750–1779)
Ulrik Frederik de Hansen (1751–1752)

Sources
 Charlotte Dorothea Biehl, Interiører fra Frederik V's Hof, udgivet af Louis Bobé.
 Aage Christens, Slægten de Hansen, 1968.

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1720 births
1784 deaths
Mistresses of Danish royalty
18th-century Danish people
18th-century Danish women landowners
18th-century Danish landowners