Would an unwed teenage couple have been allowed to stay in a hotel room together in Edwardian England? ?
It might sound like a silly question,but its for a novel that i am writing. She is pregnant with his kid, and they run away together. They are upper class couple and he has some money so they go to a hotel and stay together then the staff cotton on to the fact that they are not married and refuse them anymore board. They try other hotels and get the same thing. I was wondering whether this is a likely attitude or whether hotels were desperate enough to make money that they would ignore things like that.
They will need to get kicked out though so that the story can move on.
Not possible, and still not possible even in the 1950s here in UK when the hotel would probably demand to see the marriage certificate before registering the couple into their room[s].
I have no doubt however that a rich man would probably quite easily have been able to take his Mistress or girlfriend off for the weekend to Paris where no questions would be asked.
Meanwhile here in fuddy duddy old Englandshire, such things never happened. At least on the surface they were not supposed to happen but in reality we know different, don't we? Yes, Victorian and Edwardian UK was quote often rocked with shocking scandal of one sort or another.
Try this Hotel in Folkstone for a whiff of Edwardian scandal.
http://gouk.about.com/od/lodgingsinenglandsse/p/GrandFolkestone.htm
Upstairs Downstrairs - set in Edwardian London the hit sitcom of the 1970s.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23418780-details/After+32+years,+the+surviving+stars+of+Upstairs,+Downstairs+...and+what+happened+next/article.do
God save any woman who got pregnant outside of wedlock. Many such girls ended up in lunatic asylums. People today just cannot believe how harsh the UK was back then and still was right into the 1950-s.
It all changed in the 1960-s - Yeah Yeah Yeah etc.
The Beatles - their message was loud and clear - "We're gonna change the world".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-Q2rDd6Tw
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