Remember the British grandmother we told you about several months back? The plucky 51-year-old who decided to marry Osama bin Laden's youngest son, 25 years her junior?

Well, thinks didn't work out. Under the threat of murder and the disapproval of Osama's influential Saudi family, Jane Felix-Browne has thrown in the towel and decided to divorce the 26-year-old Omar.

"We are both in fear of our lives," she tells the British paper the Sun. "It was a really, really good marriage, a strong marriage," she says. "But I cannot stand by and watch my beloved husband die before my very eyes. I love him enough to let him go. I want him and his son, who is just three, to return to as normal a life as possible.

According to Jane, Osama's family had been humiliated by their marriage, and were threatening to have Omar imprisoned in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he runs his scrap metal dealership.

In a desperate move to save their marriage, Jane, a Parish councilor from Moulton, Cheshire, wrote to Saudi Arabia's king last week for help, but has received no reply.

"I will never marry again," Jane says. "My heart will always be with Omar and I will take my love for him to the grave."

We would have loved for dear old Jane to get her happy ending. But, as Shakespeare illustrated so well in Romeo and Juliet, sometimes outside forces do triumph over — well, if not love, than at least good sex with a wealthy 26-year-old.

Next to his wife of 38 years, Romney's wholesome, Norman Rockwell-esque image stands in stark contrast to that of Giuliani, who suffered a very public divorce from second wife, Donna Hanover a few years ago, while still involved with his twice divorced wife Judi.

Still, only 9% of Americans say a divorce would make them less likely to vote for a presidential candidate, according to a Pew Research poll cited by the Monitor. Ronald Reagan, considered a god by most conservatives, was a divorced man. And the percentage who claim "old-fashioned values about family and marriage" has declined, dropping over the past two decades from 87% to 76%.

Like Hollywood, Washington is a funny place where the reflection of our social mores is often contorted as if by a funhouse mirror. And Giuliani's high-paid contortionists are no doubt doing their best to keep voters focused on issues other than personal history. Not to say there's anything un-American about divorce. But, you have to ask: Without Giuliani's personal history and skeletons, would Americans have been introduced to Barack Obama, let alone considered electing him to the highest office in the land?

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