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I recall reading a few years back about the father-son dynamic between 41 & 43. By all accounts, Poppy wasn't around much during the Boy King's childhood. Bar ran the roost with an iron fist. And the Boy King is really much more his mother's son: a viper and a harridan; witness Boy King's demeaning habit of still giving nicknames to everyone. It stands to reason this is the case. 41 shows all the signs of being hen-pecked and brow beaten. And then throw in the class dynamic. Bar is a Pierce, in some ways, her family is "classier" than the Bush family. And it wouldn't surprise me at all if the marriage was arranged by the Bush-Pierce families, as most aristocratic family marriages were back then. Absent, "wimpy" father; balls-the-size-of-bowling-balls mother; a coddled, spoiled beyond belief son, no conception of what an examined life is like. Is it any wonder we are here today?
