Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20130906200850/@comment-5674726-20130908151008

What I could see happening re. the knights is that Uther would decide that what's done is done. Gwaine, Percival and Elyan have served as knights for over a year and they've proven that they are assets to the kingdom. He wouldn't be prepared to throw out the rule book and let anybody who wanted to be a knight have a shot at the trials but it's plausible that he would feel that, on balance, there's nothing to be achieved by stripping them of their knighthoods. He wouldn't agree to knight any other commoners but he could be content to let the existing commoner knights retain their position.

I can't see him ever changing his mind about the possibility of Arthur marrying Guinevere. The kingdom is too vulnerable to overturn the established order and, like his contemporaries, he would be firmly of the view that a prince cannot marry a servant.