Pearl - Hypergamy EXPOSED! Why Kings Never Married Broke Women! w⧸ @thisisshah

In this episode, we talk about the history of the royal dowry system and how it was negotiated in the past. We also talk about how the system was negotiated and why it is still used to this day.

00:00:00.000 When you watch some of these panel shows or whatever, it's like women will say, 1.00

00:00:04.240 oh, well, you know, I'm a queen and this and that, or I should deserve a king or something

00:00:10.120 like that. It's funny when you look at actual kings, to sit in the queen's seat, you have to

00:00:15.820 come with some serious cash. Like you weren't just going there for no reason. And if he's going to

00:00:20.520 marry someone that brings nothing just because she's so beautiful, everybody would look at him 0.99

00:00:25.040 like he's the stupidest person on the planet king henry the eighth is one that's kind of a famous 0.99

00:00:30.720 you know royal dowry story uh the queen that he was married he's the one that ended up you know 1.00

00:00:36.980 breaking away from the catholic church and uh his first wife that he was married to for like 20

00:00:42.440 years she brought what was pretty much the annual income of all of england uh at the time which is

00:00:50.700 something that they needed you know they have all the same problems up there yes so if you're a woman 0.98

00:00:55.800 and you say you know you want to be the queen and you're bringing nothing you have no contribution

00:01:01.140 uh it really is you know the height of delusion they need to look in the mirror and say

00:01:05.780 and understand what class they're actually it's kind of crazy that we're in a time where like

00:01:12.440 basically a peasant woman can get a kid yeah off of a king unfettered hypergamy is what that is 1.00

00:01:18.780 the dowry used to be a check against that because let's say these two found each other, okay, and

00:01:24.940 they're going to, somebody brings up marriage. Instantly, it would be a rejection because when

00:01:30.680 they say, okay, let's talk about marriage, the marriage discussion is a very different discussion

00:01:34.540 from dating or whatever. And I want men to remember this. I really do. I want men to remember how it

00:01:39.380 was negotiated in the past. So as we go into the future, they can have something to say back to

00:01:45.140 them that they can't be accused of not being masculine. So many masculine men in history did

00:01:50.240 this, but they would say, okay, what's your dowry? What does your father do? What's your

00:01:56.760 family background? And if the answer is nothing, I don't have a dowry to match this person up here,

00:02:04.340 they'd be like, yeah, this marriage isn't going to work. You might want to look at someone 0.61

00:02:07.740 closely to your class. So it's a check against that. So you can't just hide that. Nowadays,

00:02:13.280 what you'll get is you'll get you know an actor or you'll get an nfl player and they'll they'll

00:02:18.640 marry somebody with with nothing um and then they get dragged through the family law courts

00:02:23.200 afterwards and they're wondering what happened so that's that's what we see nowadays and a lot

00:02:28.240 of this was encouraged from what i would say was very good economic times probably through the

00:02:33.440 wealth brought in from colonialism brought in through industrialization brought in through

00:02:37.840 modernization, you know, especially post-World War II, it was a different kind of economy.

Pearl - June 04, 2025

Hypergamy EXPOSED! Why Kings Never Married Broke Women! w⧸ @thisisshah

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