except that being a King and she also royal, they were never ever alone. And a marriage between royals needed witnesses for the consummation. If he'd tried to pretend that when she turned twelve (still nauseating but it was a different time and people reached puberty earlier and died much earlier) it was the first time the witnesses would have checked for evidence that she'd been a virgin (also disgusting. But, protocol for Royals Ugh)

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It literally says "the marriage was never sexually consummated".

He died when she was 10.

Richard II died 3 years later in 1399. Isabella went on to marry her cousin, then die in childbirth at 19.

"the marriage was never sexually consummated." So...nothing?

By that time Richard had been deposed and had died under mysterious circumstances, and that marriage was never consummated. At the age of 16, she was married to an 11 year old boy. She died in childbirth at the age of 19, but her daughter survived.

Well, she was 10 when he died, so to her: nothing. However, while it wasn't ILLEGAL to consummate a marriage with a girl who was too young, people DID really dislike when they knew someone had done that. Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort (Not a queen) got married at 12 to a 24-year-old. He died a year later, leaving her pregnant at 13. She was way too young to be giving birth, and even at the time they said it was basically a miracle she and the baby both survived. He was the only child she ever had because the birth had physically messed her up so badly. My understanding is that people at the time recognized how dangerous it was to be consummating a marriage with a girl who was too young and small to give birth safely. They didn't really care about age of consent because a woman basically HAD to sleep with her husband when he wanted, and while she couldn't technically be forced to marry a man she didn't want to, in practice that's exactly what happened with women's 1st marriages.

he died when she was 11

He died when she was 10. The marriage was never consummated. She married her her cousin several years later and died during childbirth when she was 16. Her daughter survived. https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/the-royal-women/isabella-of-valois-the-child-bride-of-king-richard-ii/

Well it says never consummated, so one would think/hope that applies to after she turned 12 as well

"The marriage was never sexually consummated. However, Isabella and Richard enjoyed a good platonic relationship, which has been compared to that between a father and his adopted daughter or between a niece and a doting uncle, and he was noted to have treated her not as a wife but rather as the daughter he and his first wife Anne never had. " Read the comment.

It says in StPaul's post that the marriage was "never sexually consummated" and that they "enjoyed a good platonic relationship." Just in case English is t your first language or you don't know what a couple of those words mean: they never had sex

They weren't married by the time she turned 12. It lasted from 1396 - 1399. Sadly she passed away in 1909 before she turned 20.

"the marriage was *never* sexually consummated"

Richard died when Isabella was 10. She remarried at 16 and died in childbirth three years later.

He died when she was like 9. She remarried and died in childbirth when she was 19

Stalker, bully. Once again downvoting an innocent comment because you’re a sad and jealous individual

Even then it doesn't look like they're the same height in painting.

In all honesty - it was probably never consummated cause she wasn't 12 yet. If they had not consummated and had proof - sadly - during that time - the marriage would be invalidated. Marriage was not about love - it was about land and power. Women - girls - children.... were merely pawns in the men's chess game.