Talk:Vincent Foredale/@comment-36183398-20180731163114/@comment-3452092-20180803183027

But isn't Harry her son, too? I mean it could be an extreme case of favortism, but even then I'm pretty sure English law will not allow Edmund to inherit the title (although Pixelberry law seems to be ignoring that fact, so that may not turn out to be relevant) and probably at least a good potion of the property is entailed, so unless her first husband was a distant cousin of her current one, Edmund also cannot inherit that (and if there are no blood heirs it reverts to the crown, although again Pixelberry seems to be ignoring this). Usually at least the seat of the Earldom if entailed and any money gained from it every year (which would mean neither Edmund nor the MC can touch it, unless again Edmund is a distant relative in which case making him the heir would be irrelevant as he already would be). Considering what Pixelberry seems to want to do here, I am perfectly willing to accept that the seat of the Earldom is the only thing entailed and thus that their are other properties, possibly gained through marriages, that, along with their incomes, are not entailed, but not that there is no entailed (unless they very specifically mention it and explain why there is no entail, but it appears to have been a very rare thing and thus worth mentioning or it didn't happen) and not that there is any chance Edmund can inherit the title as they were super strict about bloodlines (not sure how strict they are now, but from what I know they were in the past) and it's more likely the natural daughter of the earl could gain the title (as I understand it there were a few that allowed daughters to gain them and sometimes a natural child could be elevated to the status of legitimate and thus gain a title with no other heirs to save a title from going extinct though I'm not sure if that ever happened in real life or not).

I'm not saying she wouldn't have killed her son, I'm just not seeing the benefit to doing so given inheritance laws, but again, this is Pixelberry. They may be ignoring these things. . . or I could have misinformation, although if I do it's pretty common misinformation).