What is Marriage?

Yes and yes.

I have worked hard to keep my own unhappy experience from tainting my attitude towards conjugal marriage. That it is an ideal I have never, and likely will never, experience, is not grounds for denigrating its immense value to others and to society.

His Majesty is of a somewhat different mind. He claims that cloning has proven a satisfactory way of producing minions. However, I find it remarkable that the clones themselves seem to prefer the old-fashioned way, given the opportunity.