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To: Joe 6-pack

She’s probably in shock. That was the era when pretty well brought up young women with no life experience were married off to older men with titles. They had little say in the marriage and often were starry eyed at the idea of a title. The reality was they were traded to her money for the connection and title and were only intended to produce heirs while the husband went on with his life and affairs either with other women or men.
I have always felt sorry for young women of that time even the ones who seemingly had everything often had very little.


16 posted on 02/05/2011 8:34:11 PM PST by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: kalee
The reality was they were traded to her money for the connection and title and were only intended to produce heirs while the husband went on with his life and affairs either with other women or men.

Ah! Like Princess Diana. She was treated like brood pig and then discarded.

or men

I wouldn't be surprised. I would suspect that many of those little boys in boarding schools were sexually abused by the older boys and/or the staff and then grew up to be homosexuals themselves.

20 posted on 02/06/2011 7:55:14 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
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