Talk:Therese Sigrid von Philip/@comment-39089654-20200711210747/@comment-45880342-20200712182443

Amalie has no say in it, but it's clear that she doesn't seem to mind. Philine also has no say, since she's so young and only engaged.

As for his first five wives, they're totally against all her advances and passes at first, deliberately getting in the way to block her both physically (literally getting in between the two of them) and psychologically (an example of the latter is when, while staying in the Mizuho territory, they go out of their way to have a harem orgy specifically because they knew that Therese wasn't brave enough to intervene).

Eventually, though, they do come to accept her once she loses her title and moves to the Count Baumeister territory, seeing her as both sincere and a bit pitiable. However she doesn't become a mistress right away. During Katia's husband selection battle, multiple characters comment that the general people (both civilians and nobles) of the Kingdom, and in particular of Wend's County, who know of Therese already believe she's a mistress, because she's basically treated as the "spoils of war" from the battles in the Empire and he comes over to her house to visit her so she isn't bored. Even by the time he marries Katia, she still hasn't become a mistress yet. However, Katia is also comparatively late to the game, so when things do progress, it's essentially viewed as natural from her perspective, so she doesn't interfere.