Clever very clever, even in our world with political marriage between noble families that didn't allow for divorce there were sometimes back doors and loop holes. A big one if the marriage wasn't consummated, you didn't get a divorce, the marriage got annulled. Wiped away as if it never was, because the underlying contract (unifying the families through children) wasn't honoured.
I thought she might go down the route of his inappropriate attention towards his sister as the way to blacken his reputation, but this is soo much better.
When it gets to court she'll have to explain it, and bring witnesses. Witnesses who can attest that it is the truth and he acted more like he was married to his adopted sister than his actual wife, which will start the rumours without her having to say it. Revenge on both of the scheming dullards.
I thought she might go down the route of his inappropriate attention towards his sister as the way to blacken his reputation, but this is soo much better.
When it gets to court she'll have to explain it, and bring witnesses. Witnesses who can attest that it is the truth and he acted more like he was married to his adopted sister than his actual wife, which will start the rumours without her having to say it. Revenge on both of the scheming dullards.
