Well, the bigger issue is that annulling the marriage to Jenny wouldn’t have stopped Duncan from abdicating, which was a crisis in itself. With Jaehaerys and Shaera, the problem is that after elopement, everyone would consider the marriage consummated, so annulment wouldn’t work in terms of making the original marriages stick.
Do you think that Aegon V should have been more forceful in dealing with his children’s marriage rebellions? With Duncan, for example, why would he need his consent to annul the marriage with Jenny, or the marriage between Shaera and Jaehaerys? Couldn’t the High Septon simply do it at the king’s request, or was consummation the main barrier? It really seems that this series of debacles hurt his credibility with the nobles, especially when he was pressing his reforms.
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