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PoindexterOglethorpe

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13. Of course Lady Violet's age would never be mentioned.
Thu Jun 13, 2019, 04:57 PM
Jun 2019

It's just that I think we can do the math, although possibly she was very young when she had Robert, who may have been under thirty himself when he married Cora.

As is so often the case in movies or novels, things happen that really wouldn't or couldn't happen in real life. Although it's the third daughter that runs off with the chauffeur, which is semi-plausible but no aristocratic family would have turned around and embraced him as one of theirs. As for the illegitimate daughter, well that absolutely would not have played out that way. In the end, what we have are early 21st century people dressed up in old clothes part of the time. Not all the time, because 90% of it seems quite correct. Not that I, in this lifetime anyway, was ever part of the English aristocracy, nor was I a servant to them. Perhaps I was in a previous life, but I sure as hell don't remember anything like that!

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