Divorce

From Turtledove

Divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage.

[edit] Divorce in "Forty, Counting Down"

Justin Kloster's divorce motivated him to build time-travel technology in 2018 and visit his 21-year-old self.

[edit] Divorce in "The Girl Who Took Lessons"

Karen and Mike Vaughan's marriage ended in a divorce. Karen had previously taken a course in law for non-lawyers and used the knowledge she had gained in that class to do their divorce herself.

[edit] Divorce in Ruled Britannia

Divorce is forbidden under the Catholic Church. In 1527, King Henry VIII of England unsuccessfully petitioned the Pope for a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. He was refused, and began the English Reformation, which made England a Protestant kingdom in 1530. The Protestant Church of England permits divorce, but as a practical matter it is all but impossible for ordinary people to obtain.

In 1598, when the Protestant Queen Elizabeth (whose own legitimacy had once been called into question because her father married her mother after divorcing Catherine) was restored to England's throne, she granted Sir William Shakespeare a divorce from Anne Hathaway so he could marry Kate.