Tbh,I think bringing up a PRIVATE conversation between two adults which was leaked into the public domain, to now use as a stick years later to beat these two people with, is nothing short of disgusting. I think many of us have had intimate, private conversations in what we considered to be the safety and privacy of our own homes and would have been outraged and dismayed if these conversations had become the subject of tittletattle in the wider community,both at the time and particularly years later. As you say Volver, why people cannot understand the mechanism of the monarchy is very frustrating! In simple English, a king outranks a Queen, therefore a reigning Queen obviously cannot be outranked by her husband as she would be if he were made King because, you've got it, a King outranks a Queen. This happened with William and Mary. Mary was Queen in her own right,but William insisted on being King and thus outranked her. Sorry, this is probably a bit complicated! In a nutshell it's a question of rank. George 1st wife was left in her native Cells imprisoned in Ahlden House for the rest of her life due to her affair with a Swedish Count and her supposed abandonment of her husband! Poor Sophie Dorothea.