illegitimate child

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illegitimate child - the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

by-blow, illegitimate, love child, whoreson, bastard

offspring, progeny, issue - the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"

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ARSENAL football star Mesut Ozil's dad is being sued by a woman who claims to be his illegitimate child.

Ozil's dad to face paternity lawsuit

Delving into the history of her three-times great-grandmother, she discovers the story of a secret lover, an illegitimate child and a landmark divorce case.

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It gives him mor rule than bein Kim Kardashia Nor would that his blue b an illegitimat Hanov Nor would it worry the PM that his blue blood stems from an illegitimate child the Hanoverian king fathered with an actress.

Cracking the whip

Until now little is known about the exact number of illegitimate child in Malaysia.

Illegitimate child in Malaysia

A mother who buried her illegitimate child on Dubai's Jumeirah Open Beach has been jailed for two years.

Dubai mother accused of burying newborn on Jumeirah beach jailed

However, in the 16th Century to break a leg also meant to give birth to an illegitimate child, which is hard to connect to the theatrical world.

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London, Aug 21 (ANI): London Olympics chief Sebastian Coe has expressed deep sense of shock as he discovered that he is descended from a Jamaican slave owner who fathered an illegitimate child with a member of his workforce.

Sebastian Coe's roots go back to 'sugar cane baron who had sex with his slaves'

The days leading up to the wedding were filled with rumors that all was not well with the couple, with the bride-to-be trying to flee Monaco after learning that Prince Albert had sired a third illegitimate child.

Prince Albert and Princess Charlene Wittstock Are Officially Married: First Monaco Royal Wedding Photos!

Many French it seems preferred the old ways when the likes of President Mitterrand could actually keep a mistress and their illegitimate child in the presidential palace while he lived in the front of the house with his Mrs without the media breathing a word till he'd been buried.

FRENCH BRIDE IS PICTURE PERFECT

OH how I ached for the actor John Hurt as he discovered, on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are, that his belief that he was descended from the Irish nobility was based on an ancestor who claimed to be the illegitimate child of the Marquess of Sligo, but was really more of a Cockney sparrer.