#sheesus

False.

Subtitle for that scene. "My lady, I am your husband. Let me help you."

They are married. That is canon. End of.

We'll bypass the "literal child" because MOST OF TOURNAMENT OF SEATS IS CHILDREN and that is, unfortunately, that world. There's room to play with ages for the sake of character dynamics in fictional people, either way. For example, in my soulmate AU for them, she turns 21 around the same time he turns 30. Is it a "big" gap? Sure. For the record, I'm pretty sure he's supposed to be like 23 in the books and she's supposed to be like 13? It's been a hot minute since I've read them, but I'm fairly certain that's the ballpark. Anyway, in an eventual sense (not at that point, but as she gets older) 10 years isn't a bad gap. Hell, my parents are 11 years apart. And in that supposed time period/fantasy type setting, whether it's your cup of tea or not, a 10-15 year age gap isn't that uncommon. As someone who is turning 30, I would find dating a 21-year-old a little weird but I also wouldn't blink an eye at dating a 40-year-old. So. I'm not justifying anything here, just saying that, in a lot of fiction set in a Ye Olde Timey Royal Situation has that. Good, bad, or indifferent.

Whether or not she loved him is entirely up to interpretation. I think she did or, at the very least, could have if given the time. Which, I suppose now is a good time to point out, is why I usually only deal with aged up aus where they are given the time OR set s8 and beyond.

Last, but certainly, if liking a relationship where two characters who get dealt shitty hand after shitty hand get to come home to something safe and comfortable where he doesn't pressure her to do anything or be anything she doesn't want to do or be and she doesn't use and abuse him and maybe occasionally they get to judge the idiots At Court for being idiots, makes me creepy, whatever dude.