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Help[Games] Re: KUY Royal Congrats ▓▒░ Round 3 ░▒▓
in reply to a message by Nyx
King: Louis Robert Gaspard Charlemagne (41)
-Late Queen: Terese Frantziska Adela
--D: Princess Anne Louisa Elisabeth Adelaide (14)
--D: Princess Therese Josephine Felicia Beatrice (12)
-Mistress: Lady Jeanne Antoinette de Launay
--S: Geoffrey Roland Louis, Duke of Illyria (6)
Queen: Isabella Clementina Rosalba Violetta (21)
-D: Princess Cecile Isabella Eleanore Mathilde (3)
-S:(deceased) Prince Gabriel Louis Clement Etienne
-D/D: Princess Gabrielle Aimee Clarissa Eloise/Princess Louise Emeline Ginevra Marguerite
Only three months after Cecile's birth, Isabella becomes pregnant again. The whole castle is abuzz with excitement, thinking that the heir is about to be born. However, the pregnancy is hard on Isabella, and she ends up giving birth two months early--the palace doctor states that she had conceived again too soon, and thus her body was not ready to handle the pregnancy. Her hellish labor produces a son--weak and sickly, but a son at last! Isabella names him Gabriel, meaning "strong man of God," and invokes St. Clement I and St. Stephen of Hungary, the patron saints of sick children and against the death of children respectively, in his two middle names in a desperate attempt to ensure his survival. Isabella and Louis have their son hastily baptized and keep a vigil at his cradle, but alas, Prince Gabriel only survives a week before passing on in his sleep.
Both Isabella and Louis are completely devastated--Isabella shuts herself in her apartments for days, refusing to speak to anyone but her closest ladies-in-waiting, and rebukes her husband's bed. Louis buries himself in meetings and royal duties, and in his wife's absence seeks the comfort of his newest mistress, Madame Françoise d'Aubigné, whose relationship with the king was somewhat of an open secret and who has established herself quite comfortably at court. Isabella despised her and the hypocrisy of it all. Her only comfort was her children--Anne and Therese put on little plays and recited poetry as an attempt to cheer her up, and knowing that little Cecile and Geoffrey needed their mama (as she now considered Geoffrey to be her own son--the poor little boy didn't ask to be put in such a position,) Isabella slowly but surely found the strength to leave her room and carry on with her life.
A year after Gabriel's death, Isabella finally begins to sleep with her husband again, and soon becomes pregnant. This pregnancy is the hardest of all--most days she could barely get out of bed from the fatigue, and threw up constantly until she gave birth--but when she starts to feel too many little kicks for just two feet, she suspects that she is carrying twins. This fills Isabella with joy, as it was two more chances to provide her husband with the boy he most desperately wanted and fulfill her duty as Queen. After a long, hard labor, Isabella is thwarted again--she gives birth to two beautiful baby girls, and she can hear Louis screaming curses behind the closed doors of her room when he is told the news right after their birth. She names the elder twin Gabrielle after her late brother, and as a small attempt to please her husband, names the younger Louise. Isabella loves her girls immensely, but is now very afraid for her future--what would become of her if she did not birth a healthy son?
-Late Queen: Terese Frantziska Adela
--D: Princess Anne Louisa Elisabeth Adelaide (14)
--D: Princess Therese Josephine Felicia Beatrice (12)
-Mistress: Lady Jeanne Antoinette de Launay
--S: Geoffrey Roland Louis, Duke of Illyria (6)
Queen: Isabella Clementina Rosalba Violetta (21)
-D: Princess Cecile Isabella Eleanore Mathilde (3)
-S:(deceased) Prince Gabriel Louis Clement Etienne
-D/D: Princess Gabrielle Aimee Clarissa Eloise/Princess Louise Emeline Ginevra Marguerite
Only three months after Cecile's birth, Isabella becomes pregnant again. The whole castle is abuzz with excitement, thinking that the heir is about to be born. However, the pregnancy is hard on Isabella, and she ends up giving birth two months early--the palace doctor states that she had conceived again too soon, and thus her body was not ready to handle the pregnancy. Her hellish labor produces a son--weak and sickly, but a son at last! Isabella names him Gabriel, meaning "strong man of God," and invokes St. Clement I and St. Stephen of Hungary, the patron saints of sick children and against the death of children respectively, in his two middle names in a desperate attempt to ensure his survival. Isabella and Louis have their son hastily baptized and keep a vigil at his cradle, but alas, Prince Gabriel only survives a week before passing on in his sleep.
Both Isabella and Louis are completely devastated--Isabella shuts herself in her apartments for days, refusing to speak to anyone but her closest ladies-in-waiting, and rebukes her husband's bed. Louis buries himself in meetings and royal duties, and in his wife's absence seeks the comfort of his newest mistress, Madame Françoise d'Aubigné, whose relationship with the king was somewhat of an open secret and who has established herself quite comfortably at court. Isabella despised her and the hypocrisy of it all. Her only comfort was her children--Anne and Therese put on little plays and recited poetry as an attempt to cheer her up, and knowing that little Cecile and Geoffrey needed their mama (as she now considered Geoffrey to be her own son--the poor little boy didn't ask to be put in such a position,) Isabella slowly but surely found the strength to leave her room and carry on with her life.
A year after Gabriel's death, Isabella finally begins to sleep with her husband again, and soon becomes pregnant. This pregnancy is the hardest of all--most days she could barely get out of bed from the fatigue, and threw up constantly until she gave birth--but when she starts to feel too many little kicks for just two feet, she suspects that she is carrying twins. This fills Isabella with joy, as it was two more chances to provide her husband with the boy he most desperately wanted and fulfill her duty as Queen. After a long, hard labor, Isabella is thwarted again--she gives birth to two beautiful baby girls, and she can hear Louis screaming curses behind the closed doors of her room when he is told the news right after their birth. She names the elder twin Gabrielle after her late brother, and as a small attempt to please her husband, names the younger Louise. Isabella loves her girls immensely, but is now very afraid for her future--what would become of her if she did not birth a healthy son?
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