This chapter makes me so mad.
Based on the novel's settings, a woman's status is highly dependent on her husband. By virtue of her status as Duchess, she should have been given more respect and should not have been sidelined by any vassal (resentful or not). I blame her emotionally inept husband for this, because he should have drilled it into his subordinates, from freaking day one, that she should be treated with the utmost respect since she is the Duchess (Visaride or not).
Based on the novel's settings, a woman's status is highly dependent on her husband. By virtue of her status as Duchess, she should have been given more respect and should not have been sidelined by any vassal (resentful or not). I blame her emotionally inept husband for this, because he should have drilled it into his subordinates, from freaking day one, that she should be treated with the utmost respect since she is the Duchess (Visaride or not).
Now, I fully support her decision to divorce Harsen when her brother died, so that she could take over the marquisate until her nephew/niece come of age. Why stay in a family where you're not really accepted and treated as the enemy? Also, I now don't feel too bad that the Bernhardt duchy was destroyed in their failed rebellion.