Additional:
It has occurred to me that, if the class system must be bought up to date, then they could go by the principle that if you're lower/under-class and marry your cousin then the newspapers denounce it as a sordid scandal, whereas if you're upper class/landed gentry and do the same, they tout it as a fucking celebrated national event.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:08, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

They are cousins?

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:21, Reply)

Not in this case
But there is a history of it in those circles.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:26, Reply)

Oh, yes
Just to keep the blood clean and the power within the family. It's all so lovely.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 17 Nov 2010, 11:31, Reply)