Definitely agree. I don't hate him, but everything bad that ever happened to his family and Penelope except for Yvonne disappearing were all his fault.
It really sucks that he truly wanted to do good things to help a dying girl and his family, but his communication skills leave a lot to desire. I really think how the staff and Derrick and Reynold treated her would have been completely different if he had just explained that Penelope wasn't intended to replace Yvonne, but was just a girl that had the Duke as a benefactor that he came to see as a daughter.
Yea you word it better than me so thanks and I agree
When you think about it, yeah all of that was his fault. He didn't think how his kids and staff would react to the new member all of a sudden plus when he brought her home, he left her practically all on her own and people being people took that as he didn't care for her and abused her and what's even worst her step siblings did as well. Don't get me wrong I'm not hating him, you can see he regrets what he did(well what he didn't do) and wants to start a new but penny is too traumatized and scared to accept it just like with her future hubby. The scene didn't brought me to the tears but it made me sad cuz both of them want to have nice relationship and both of them want father/daughter relationship but pennt doesn't believe she derveres it and thinks it's too late bc she's not "real" penny