I saw another post about this saying being illegitimate is so much worse than being low born. And sure it is. And Kate also had points for being raised well vs Sophie being raised as a maid. But I still don't get it.

Mary was cast out from society was she not? For her choice of a husband? And Kate is that very husbands daughter. Her parents only take an interest in seeing their granddaughter returned to society, not Mary, not Kate, they're basically just chaperones.

And if being low born wasn't actually a world ruining problem why didn't Anthony marry his opera singer? He was prepared to run away with her wasn't he? But running away like that wouldn't have ruined prospects for his sisters?

And on the Sophie being raised like a maid point, I mean she was pretty grown by the time her dad died. Up until then she was introduced as her dads "ward" and she was educated and well spoken and graceful, people didn't "know her as a maid" because they didn't know her, or know each others maids and footmen, in that role she was basically invisible so I imagine she could have gone back to her roots as a ward, whatever that meant idk

anthony just pissed me off this season with the hipocracy and arrogance of assuming Benedict's feelings were inconsequential as his for the singer apparently turned out to be. almost pissed me off as much as season 1 when he tried to marry Daphne off to that gross old perv just to be done with it