Fox2! wrote:John Prigent wrote:I seem to recall that Young wanted to humiliate Honor because she had not bowed and scraped to his 'superior' status and had in fact turned him down flat when he first approached her. A mere Yeoman-born female not wanting sex with an aristocrat, she had to be put in her place!
Cheers, John
A "mere Yeoman-born female" with ties to one of the meritocracy of Beowulf's most meritocratic families? A family with several members on the Planetary Board of Directors? (SNIP)
Robert_A_Woodward wrote:That is assuming that Pavel Young even knew that Honor's mother's birth name was Allison Carmena Elena Inez Regina Benton-Ramirez y Chou. And, for that matter, that he knew what that meant on Beowulf.
True.
OTOH. Perhaps he did do some research but mishandled the data and assumed that since her family tree has a root in Beowulf that that automatically equates to her being oversexed, wanton, loose and horny. Same as many idiots thinking the Dutch are all high and horny.
Like father like son, because for some reason Dimitri noted that she lacked a buck to rut between her legs. Pavel was just trying to be the buck.
"Be the buck Pavel, be the buck." He told himself.
But the buck got bucked when he tried to mount that horse.
At any rate, it would seem that even if he didn't know Allison's maiden name he'd know her married name. Ally would have been widely known in the Star Kingdom. And so too would have Alfred. The media certainly would have been responsible for squeezing quite a bit of juice on the Harrington name out of the grapevine.