POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES
There are some truly thoughtless, unpleasant comments here.
When a wealthy person marries someone who is not wealthy, his or her spouse becomes accustomed to a more lavish life.
Why, when the wealthy person wants to dissolve the marriage, would anyone think it appropriate that the spouse be reduced to where she/he was years before?
The courts recognize the justice of this and decide accordingly.
And Britain is a nation of laws, not howling mobs. At least it used to be.
As for the vicious voices above who've talked about Heather as a prostitute, I only ask, wouldn't the real case of prostitution be if a wealthy man enjoyed a younger woman for a few years and then dumped her with nothing?
And on top of everything, goofy Paul chose to have a child with his "trophy" wife.
In all of this, the person who bears the greatest responsibility clearly is Paul. He's an old man, presumably with a great deal of human experience. He chose to marry her, surely ignoring signs of her unbalanced mind in his eagerness to enjoy a young wife. And he chose to have a child with her.
No one who has any significant exposure to those with mental problems can doubt from her expression in photos and her behaviors that Heather suffers from an illness, almost certainly a mild schizophrenia.
Have a little pity here, people.