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Also - no. The first guy who tweeted it Giles Coren, made it up. Then deleted it after he was threatened with legal action when Williams lawyer wrote this: “in addition to being false and highly damaging, the publication of false speculation in respect of our clients’ private life also constitutes a breach of his privacy pursuant to Article 8 of the European Convention to Human Rights.” Just repeating some nasty conspiracy theory doesn’t make it true. Nice try though. |
I'm in 2021. Divorce became more socially acceptable in Charles' generation. Prior to that, it was stigmatized at best, and scandalous frequently. No fault divorce laws only came about in the 1970s, a reflection of attitudes toward divorce undergoing a sea change. |
Your head is going to explode if they don't get divorced. Divorce may be less stigmatized but divorce rates are actually going down, not up. After 10 years of marriage and several years of dating keep wishing and hoping they will become one of the declining stats. People getting married this days (not the 1980s and not 1580s) are more likely to stay married than ever before. |
| I don't think they'll ever get divorced but I also don't think that says much about the state of their marriage. I think Kate long ago agreed she would put up and shut up. Affairs? Whatever, part of the bargain, just don't let it be public and embarrassing, don't humiliate her. I believe she fully intends to fulfill the role Diana could/would not and will go along with whatever he sets. She knows and plays by "the rules" in all aspects of her personal and public life. |
On this I agree. I just wonder how far she'll take it. Probably to the end. But several royal spouses have been 'acting out' in the 21st century. The Queen of Denmark's husband was such a rude, pouting man that not only did he die just after a six-month 'vacation' in Egypt but he also refused to be buried beside her in death because she wouldn't name him King. The Queen of Spain's husband abdicated and left the country after controversy. He's been living abroad for a year and she didn't leave with him. And then there's Monaco which is the middle of a messy split at the moment but no word on divorce. |
But looking at the Swedish royal family, Frederik and Mary of Denmark, Letizia and Felipe of Spain, Willem-Alexander and Maxima of the Netherlands, Philippe and Mathilde of Belgium, etc and seems like the younger royals are having far better luck than their parents and the older generation. Prince Albert of Monaco is in his 60s with multiple illegitimate children, I'm not sure I'd lump him in with the other young royals. |
Felipe is 53. Phillipe is 62. Willlem-Alexander is 54. Frederik is 53. All of them are in Albert's age range who is 63. |
PP here. I think she'll take it to the end. I think they had a pretty striking power imbalance when he was stringing her along for years before Charles (Charles!) basically told him to sh+t or get off the pot. William always seemed to want one of the aristochicks and they all rebuffed him; I think he felt kind of backed into a corner. Whenever he goes out partying or has rumored affairs, it's always with those women who I think were, generally speaking, his first choice. Apparently they still think she is kind of lower. Kate was ok with all that and willing to turn a blind eye. She also just seems to try SO HARD in her role (well, not with things like number of engagements or whatever, but with following every rule to a T) I don't see her bursting out and breaking free. I think it would have to be REALLY bad to do so, and as long as they both stay in their lanes, no reason to really. I think her family supports that choice too. There is nothing inherently wrong with this arrangement btw, but I do think it is an arrangement. |
And do they have multiple illegitimate children and much younger wives? |
RE the illegitimate children - we don't know. Interesting you bring it up because last year for the first time the King of Belgium (since you mention their royal family) was forced to formally acknowledge his illegitimate daughter. One that he insisted that he didn't have and the public wasn't aware of until she brought a paternity suit in the early 2000s. She's now an official Princess of the Belgians. |
Look if it's very important to include Albert, who is a boomer, in a list of people he doesn't have much in common with, then suit yourself. I'm just not seeing the track record of failing marriages and rampant divorce in the current crop of royals who aren't boomers or silent generation. Nobody said they all had to have happy happy marriages, but they aren't all divorced either. |
Let me clarify an addition - the 'boomers' had pretty nice marriages (on paper or in public anyway) throughout the 60s and 70s and into the 80s. They only went off the rails about 3 decades in when even their PR couldn't cover it up. |
Do you acknowledge the fact that divorce rates are down especially amongst the elite? You seem to be arguing without basic facts. Here are some for your reading pleasure. "Divorce among college-educated couples who married before they had children is at levels as low as in the 1970s, before the wide adoption of the no-fault statutes made divorce much less of a legal nightmare." https://time.com/5434949/divorce-rate-children-marriage-benefits/ |
Did you read your article? The divorce rate is dropping because marriage rates are dropping. (And its still pretty high imo at 40% of couples divorcing). |