Ducky is hard to understand, but she was tragic by nature if not in the sense she didn't survive the revolution. She was beautiful, in off beat way, and perhaps by the standards of another age than ours, and perhaps more in real life too. I think she was sensitive and didn't try to be something that she wasn't, she suffered more because of her sensitvity. She knew she wasn't the right wife for Ernest, nor the right figure to be Grand Duchess of Hesse. She mighr not have fulfilled her role well, but if she knew it wasn't right for her and got out of it. You have to applaud that. Despite being royalty, she was not the type to tolerate an arranged marriage, perhaps because she was sensitive, so she fought her way out of it. That's a bit like Princess Diana in a way.