AOG - //If you want bad mouthing just take note of the flack that his father gets, his only crime to marry a person he didn't love. //
I think you are being somewhat over-generous there AOG.
His 'crime' if you wish to put it like that, was not just marrying a woman he didn't love, it was keeping a lover throughout his courtship, and throughout his marriage, and making no secret of that fact.
A little more than simply marrying without love - which it appears was down to his father's influence on his sense of 'duty' to the line.