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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Well still think it is down to different attitudes back then because if any of those cases had happened in the last decade there would have been furore throughout the press about it especially with certain newspaper's proven predilection for phone hacking and other misbehaviour.
Otherwise I think we would have read more about it at the time.
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Well, the simple fact that Peel was able to marry a 15 year old shows you that attitudes were different back then. That's not to say no-one objected. If I'm not mistaken is was illegal in some states in the US, so Peel had to be careful crossing state boundaries.