1. That is literally the age difference of my own parents. My mom is the older one, and clearly nobody gives as much of a shit when it’s the female who’s older. My childhood best friend also dated an 18-year-old girl when he was 14, and nobody cared.
2. 14 is legal in many European countries.
3. Thomas Jefferson, who wrote our nation’s Declaration of Independence, and made the unprecedented assertion that all men were created equal and endowed with inalienable rights, had a relationship with a 14-year-old when he was 44.
Or maybe this WAS the better arrangement... if these people need perpetual help from the UK, and are so desperate to live under British rule, then why not just put them back under the Crown? If they can't improve the problems in their home countries, then maybe their countries should be administered by more competent nations.
