Talk:Therese Sigrid von Philip/@comment-39089654-20200711210747/@comment-45880342-20200712014216

Politics. For one, she's from a foreign nation (and nobility from that nation too). For two, even though she was forcibly retired, she was a Duchess, which would under normal circumstances rank even higher than Wend, and is definitely a status higher than all his wives. If she were made a wife, that alone would de-stabilize other relations, which would be a problem for Elise's family as well as Duke Bleichröder. If she were made a wife, then also bore a male child, there could be a serious succession dispute, and the Kingdom simply couldn't risk that. In the end, it's actually harder for Therese to be a wife than it would be for Amalie.