Different standings? Hu? What is he talking about

Precisely, grimaldi is a count, and it's still below duke. Duke is directly under king, which is like 2 level above count (the usual order is count, marquis, then duke, king, emperor if theyre under an empire)
Visount is under count, the lowest is baron

Ye but like historically dukes wouldt just marry princesses and other dukes(outside of som incestuous outcomes) most times as long as the lower ranking noble had eithwr a lot of money or an incredible power or was from an historically relevant family jt was still fine.
Like it wasnt common but like not to the point of a servanto going "teh only problem is their standing

Like i was surpised that was the only problem he saw with this (not the fact that the son of a viscount was.... a son?

My understanding of the plot would be because grimaldi is not on the same level as woodpecker, grimaldi isn't rich either (the life potrayed in grimaldi territory are often more humble than the extravagant southern area) also no one likes grimaldi lol

And the ml isnt known to be sane either after his curse broke so i guess people don't really care about who he has interest with but i do agree that those ppl are pretty weird for not caring at the fact that adrina is currently known as a guy, i guess that's just how they are; class and pride above everything, because "well at least he's on the same standing as the duke" even tho he's a guy

XD the one time that they arent even gay the entourage isnt homophobic ┗( T﹏T )┛

That part actually caught me off guard too because at one point duke woodpecker is "well i can't just take a man as my wife so how i can make him mine?" but everyone else is just "duke is interested in a man? He can't be with a low rank noble"

Well i gues they have their own different priorities