Lol, yes, she appears to have had a different idea about marriage than you or me. But, I get the sense she didn't do anything she didn't want to do. In any case, whatever they had worked for them. They stayed married until she went missing.
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Lol, yes, she appears to have had a different idea about marriage than you or me. But, I get the sense she didn't do anything she didn't want to do. In any case, whatever they had worked for them. They stayed married until she went missing.
Marrying for money and/or prestige is a time honored tradition.
In 1947, Sen. Richard Russell Jr. of Georgia proposed that England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales should become four new states of the United States of America. He may have been the only person on earth who thought this was a good idea.
Normally this would be laughed off as the ravings of a crackpot, but he was a U.S. Senator, so the media reported on it. Press reports from 1947 note that the British received the idea "coldly". Think absolute zero.
Of course, they didn't just launch into a tirade of expletives. The British are much too sophisticated for such a coarse response. So rather than condemn Senator Russell, the plucky Brits simply pointed out that Georgia still owed money borrowed from the British during the Civil War.
It was the perfect retort. Russell assumed that America held the upper hand because the US just bailed out Britain in World War II. He had forgotten that England had spent millions to help the South in the war between the states ... and that money was never repaid.
So maybe this whole thing was backward? Perhaps Georgia should've been added to the United Kingdom.
As the rhetoric escalated, Southerners claimed they really didn't owe anything because the Civil War debts were payable in Confederate dollars ... and since the Confederacy didn't exist any more, they were off the hook. This sounds like the reasoning that a really shonky lawyer would use.
Fortunately, after a brief flurry in the spring of 1947, the whole UK statehood idea died an appropriate death.
(from "Lost States" by Michael J. Trinklein, 2010. A hilarious and informative book, telling the stories of states that never made it)
Normally this would be laughed off as the ravings of a crackpot, but he was a U.S. Senator, so the media reported on it. Press reports from 1947 note that the British received the idea "coldly". Think absolute zero.
Of course, they didn't just launch into a tirade of expletives. The British are much too sophisticated for such a coarse response. So rather than condemn Senator Russell, the plucky Brits simply pointed out that Georgia still owed money borrowed from the British during the Civil War.
It was the perfect retort. Russell assumed that America held the upper hand because the US just bailed out Britain in World War II. He had forgotten that England had spent millions to help the South in the war between the states ... and that money was never repaid.
So maybe this whole thing was backward? Perhaps Georgia should've been added to the United Kingdom.
As the rhetoric escalated, Southerners claimed they really didn't owe anything because the Civil War debts were payable in Confederate dollars ... and since the Confederacy didn't exist any more, they were off the hook. This sounds like the reasoning that a really shonky lawyer would use.
Fortunately, after a brief flurry in the spring of 1947, the whole UK statehood idea died an appropriate death.
(from "Lost States" by Michael J. Trinklein, 2010. A hilarious and informative book, telling the stories of states that never made it)
I am highly skeptical that the UK government financially supported the South in the Civil War. I couldn't find anything about this online. Have you got any independent source to back up Trinklein's claim?
It seems the official position of the UK was one of neutrality.
The South hoped Britain would come in on its side due to that country's need for the South's cotton. Ships that ran the blockade in Southern waters took cotton to England, where factories accepted it gladly, but no offer of support was ever officially extended.
