Yes, but when you look at what Isabel de Heredia did before her marriage, we are back to the education part, because she had an excellent education and was a successful woman who had no necessity to marry a man to provide for her. She could have done so on her own and maybe even better. Although we shouldn't compare, we have seen 2 examples of marriage with age gap, one that works
where the woman has an education and
self value, and another that didn't work
where the woman had little education and
derived her self value solely from her social position coming to her through her husbands social status. And I think that there we put the finger on sth far more important then age, beauty, dresses etc. Those are superficial things that don't really matter. We've all heard and might even have had the experience, that men mature later, so that might give some explanation why a woman might be looking to older men. I could sermon now the reasons why women are usually looking towards older men whereas men are looking for younger women, but I think everyone has already their opinion to that matter.
But in order for any relation, no matter all these superficiallities, to work the core ingredient to me seems to be both partners sense of selfworth and selfrespect. And I think in this department both Albert and Charlene are terribly wanting. With Charlene we have seen how easily she accepted to have her boyfriend cheat on her (we have seen her look at the pictures), we have heard the flatout denial of any marriage intentions from Albert (and he did not only say it once but keeps repeating it) and well with Albert we can see by the type of women he has gotten himself involved with that he obviously doesn't think that he deserves any better then what one of his friends described (I posted an article to that respect) as "bimbos".
I know that in math two minus make a plus and it does work in relationships too - to a degree: as soon as ones selfesteem growth and thinks that there should be more to have, it becomes unbalanced and that's where the problems usually start and the odds to turn one minus and a plus into a plus ... you'd better ask a mathematician