Comment by nkmnz

You’re looking at the 0.00001% as an argument why the lower 99.99999% cannot marry into that class - when, in fact, it’s just a matter of math that they cannot do. The marriages of Markle and Simpson have always been more accepted than a peasant marriage between a Catholic and a Protestant in 1950s Germany - just to put your claim into perspective.

Edit: or to put it differently, which of the two scenarios has been more likely in the past 500 years: the daughter of a blacksmith marrying a baron, or the son of a blacksmith becoming a baron through merit?