That was the expression Thorne used when rich boy got the annullment. THK insisted on the annullment as part of her Catholic upbringing and to keep John boy's prenup. Thorne was exceptionally disturbed that Kerry had deligitimized their wedding and basically made bastards out of his children.
That's nice. Too bad we've grown out of the feudal era, and annullment no longer has any status effect on the children. She, as well as some others here, need to rejoin reality.
Then she was disturbed for NO REASON. I hope she has learned differently since that time. If the legal dissolution of her marriage did not render her children illegitimate, then the dissolution of the Sacrament certainly didn't.