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Royal divorces generally mean political trouble. The marital problems of Henry VIII plunged England into decades of religious strife and, as we all know, when Edward VIII wanted to marry a divorced woman there was a constitutional crisis that cost him his throne. The object in this programme is associated with a king whose protracted attempts to divorce his queen were, on the contrary, intended to safeguard the kingdom. His failure to do so probably killed him and it certainly led to the termination not only of his line but of his kingdom as well. The object, an engraved rock crystal, tells us his name. Written in Latin, it reads: "Lothair, King of the Franks, caused me to be made".
王室成員的離婚通常會引發(fā)政治紛爭。亨利八世的婚姻問題曾讓英格蘭數(shù)十年陷于宗教沖突I愛德華八世想迎娶一位離過婚的女士，導致憲制危機，并付出退位的代價。本節(jié)的這件物品也與一位國王的婚姻有關(guān)，他以延續(xù)王國為名處心積慮地想和妻子離婚，最終失敗。這件事很可能最終要了他的命，他的血脈與王國也都因此終結(jié)。這件水晶雕刻上的拉丁文銘文中有他的名字：“奉法蘭克國王洛泰爾之命制作。”
