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One of my favorite passages of Scripture is Proverbs 31:10-31, the famous passage about the qualities of a good woman. As verse 10 reads, “Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.” The implication is that a true “Proverbs 31 Woman” is a rare and precious thing.
Based on earlier chapters of Proverbs, which extensively detailed the dangers of a wanton floozy, it’s pretty clear that a bad woman can be quite destructive. Proverbs 7:6-23 is an entire cautionary tale about a foolish young man who dies when a harlot stabs him after a night of passion!
Too many men (myself included) fall for the allure of a pretty face, which is probably why there are three or four chapters in Proverbs warning us off of them (and only one chapter about a good woman).
Such is the potentially corrosive effect of a loose woman that one nearly destroyed a monarchy. The short-reigned King Edward VIII, who ruled in 1936 for barely eleven months.
The controversy over King Edward VIII’s decision to marry a twice-divorced woman (still married at the time of Edward’s abdication in December 1936), Wallis Simpson, threatened the House of Windsor, and nearly resulted in a constitutional crisis for the British Empire.
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The Portly Politico 
I would say that if one were a male Briton in the line of succession, one would be wise not to matty an American Divorcee. It never seems to work out. Now if you are the younger son of the Duke of Marlborough, then you should grab that American girl.
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There are surely plenty of English babes worth banging if you’re the King of England. My crudeness aside, being the King or heir apparent has got to come with significant perks in the dating-for-marriage pool, yes?
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One would think, but Queen consort is a pretty poor job. And in truth Windsor was about the last one that really looked like fun. Was that one of James I female friends who escaped the mob by screaming, “You’ve got the wrong one. I’m the Protestant whore.”
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Yes, but how lousy is it *really*? Yes, you sacrifice most semblance of privacy and normality for a gilded cage… but what a cage! And isn’t that what every woman wants: unlimited resources and loads of fawning attention, peppered with some occasional social controversy to keep things slightly chaotic?
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