Perhaps you could have "Novelist" or "Notorious" bride.
I have ruined Peter and Harriet's wedding night 5 times and am working on the sixth. Also, it is convenient to be able to look up the others when I'm doing it again.
That is much better. I was more thinking that her reaction was more likely to be along the lines of "I might have known it was too good to last. Back to the drawing board/a life of academic contemplation" (not that I was putting it very clearly at that time of night)
I agree that Harriet's not really likely to reach for the gun (hence the court case for annullment). Perhaps she can have a fling with Saint-George to get the Wimsey's out of her system.
Depending on Peter's timing, presumably non-consummation! There's an amusing bit of MS for Thrones, Dominations that JPW naturally left out in which Harriet asks why Peter never tried to seduce her into marrying him, and his answer is basically "performance anxiety".
It's in a context of “I couldn’t stand the thought of your sleeping with me and not really wanting to, and I’d be worried that you didn’t really want to, and so...”
Maybe the groom was actually somebody else posing as Peter? I think identity fraud would be enough to nullify a marriage as well. Maybe it's Peter One or Peter Two from that short story where he's trying to get the formula.
Goodness, I'd just assumed he'd confessed to the murder! I mean, when you've got a murder on the premises, isn't that what you confess to? Anything else would be... well, untidy. Or something.
Well, a confession of murder might well be grounds for divorce, but discovering your spouse isn't, in and of itself, grounds for annullment, because annullment is a ruling that the marriage was never valid, not merely that it's been dissolved. But as nineveh_uk points out, the non-consummation which might result from such a confession would be, I was just forgetting the most obvious grounds for an annullment!
I don’t think discovering Peter had murdered Mr Noakes would in itself be grounds for Harriet to divorce him at the time, and they haven’t been married long enough for him to commit adultery. Post-1937 maybe Harriet could divorce Peter for desertion, but as the same law changed things so you couldn’t get divorced in the first three years of marriage, she’d still have to wait.
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Date: 2012-10-25 09:55 pm (UTC)You have the need for a Busman's Honeymoon Disasters tag?
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Date: 2012-10-26 08:27 am (UTC)I have ruined Peter and Harriet's wedding night 5 times and am working on the sixth. Also, it is convenient to be able to look up the others when I'm doing it again.
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Date: 2012-10-27 05:36 pm (UTC)JPW would cut that out, curse her!
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Date: 2012-10-28 09:49 pm (UTC)Impersonation definitely nullifies a marriage.
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Date: 2012-10-29 01:03 pm (UTC)I don’t think discovering Peter had murdered Mr Noakes would in itself be grounds for Harriet to divorce him at the time, and they haven’t been married long enough for him to commit adultery. Post-1937 maybe Harriet could divorce Peter for desertion, but as the same law changed things so you couldn’t get divorced in the first three years of marriage, she’d still have to wait.
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