You might have seen a pain scale in your doctor's office before. One common type shows a series of numbered cartoon faces moving from 0 (smiling and pain-free) to 10 (weeping in agony.) A doctor would ask a person in pain which face matched up with what they were feeling. They might seem simple.
In our day this might be more than one. For Israelite King Echov, one particular foreign wife, Isabel, was one too many. King David is said to have had eighteen wives and concubines, seven mentioned by name in the OT and the others mentioned in the oral tradition.
Victoria herself was rather an exponent of the art... she had nine children with Albert and they married into royal families all over Europe, ensuring that all the current royal families of Europe are related and in fact all the current European kings and queens are in line of succession to the British throne.