Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20140630220202/@comment-24629321-20140706212111

ReganX wrote:

I'd say that he would rather that she was alive and not married to him than dead. Absolutely, but would there be a legitimate way to end a marriage apart from death? Is there any indication in the show that divorce is a possibility, or would Uther have had to invent it? (Potentially opening the door to other kinds of social revolution like commoners wanting to be knights?) Ending the marriage may have also had potential negative repercussions for the Camelot he wanted to maintain.

I think it is most likely he would remain married to Ygraine. Possibly accepting an illegitimate child (Morgana or one who would be fathered later) as his heir, although that, again, could encourage unwanted challenges to social norms. I wonder if he would be devious enough to conceive a child with another woman, sequester her and Ygraine both away for nine months, and claim that the resulting child was born to Ygraine?