"In later years the Lord Chamberlain's duties were modified," Kelley writes eagerly, "so the Queen could visit her divorced cousins, her divorced sister, her divorced daughter, and her two divorced sons, including the heir to the throne".
Her divorced mother, Elizabeth, faces her diagnosis with cheery fortitude.
She came from dull Utrecht, where she worked to support her divorced, tippling mother.
But what truly distinguishes her divorced male clients, she said, is how appreciative they are.
Helen Riggins took the name Morgan in her childhood when her divorced mother remarried.
Wooden Spirit takes place at a historic house tended by a young girl and her divorced father.
Her father became president in 1979, and Dos Santos and her divorced mother eventually moved to London.
Nicky, who in reality sees her divorced father only sporadically, dreamed he had turned into her boyfriend.
Her divorced mother sank so deeply into alcoholism that she eventually lost custody of her two daughters when they were 10 and 12.
In Life of the Party, her divorced, fortysomething mum decides to go and get the college degree she has always wanted – at the same university as her daughter.
She worked at sales, cashier and receptionist jobs, she said, until moving to Miami with Enrique in 1997, to live near her divorced mother.
