His father was a big-time salesman, owning companies that worked with royalty fairly often and was at high noble status, right under the royals. When it came out that the boy had married another man, and one that wasn't a fox demihuman, there was a lot of backlash.

Despite that, the two of you still lived together happily, occasionally going to balls or gardening, but mostly staying inside and to yourselves. Yes, there were many awful rumors about you two, but did that really matter?