WWYD? Let's say you come home from Winter Break, your dad is dead, your mom has married your uncle, (whom you've never much cared for anyway). ...

One must
consider that it was not uncommon for a lady--royalty or not--to marry another free male from
her husband's family should her husband be killed or die somehow.  This was the way women
survived.  Without a daddy, brother, husband, or other male taking care of her food, clothing,
shelter, etc., she would be left to beg for her living.  Take a look at Katherine of Aragon--she
married Henry VIII's brother first, then took Henry VIII as her new husband.

Granted, it would have to be emotionally disturbing to call your used-to-be uncle
"Dad".  After learning that his uncle-father is the reason his dad is dead, that would
poison Thanksgiving and Christmas get togethers indefinitely. 

Poor Hamlet. 
I have always given him grief about being "Mr. Waffle"--I imagine that being in the
same situation, I would be a supreme waffler in my own right.  

By the way,
being from Kentucky and taking lots of jokes about wearing shoes and running faster than my
brothers, I chuckled a bit at the...