He really should've sat down and tried to explain it to her, but his reasoning for not doing so could be that he is too traumatized from loosing her in every life. He could be suffering a form of ptsd as well. But I feel like this will cause a riff or some kind of confusion btwn them now that prince shithead is telling her.
countess, countess, countess.
I'm getting tired of it. Yes she may HOLD a peerage, but she herself is a Duchess, her title as a Duchess is higher than her own peerage, hence she should be referred to as Duchess.