LN:
HowardDH:
William Henry (22)
DW: Marie-Elisabeth (nee Beauchamp) (16)
DD: Lady
Louisa Charlotte Adelaide (NB)
Rank: Lord and Lady
Howard
At the tender age of just 16 Marie-Elisabeth presented her husband
William with a daughter. Although upset that the child hadn't been a boy,
William was consoled by the knowledge that
Marie was still young enough to bear him many more children and among them there would undoubtably be sons and the child had been born healthy. And anyway how could he possibly be angry with
Marie, she was so beautiful and charming with an innocence he couldn't describe. She enchanted him. Her skin was as white as snow and she had the prettiest rosebud lips, her eyes were the colour of glittering emeralds. She had passed on her pale skin and pretty rosebud lips to his daughter too, though the child had Blue eyes, but of course he knew most newborn babies had Blue eyes and they could change colour.
William allowed
Marie to name their newborn daughter and she named the little girl
Louisa Charlotte Adelaide, after
Louis the king of
France,
Prince Charles whom she had been raised with in the
Royal Household (she had always been closest to
Charles) and the new Dauphine
Adelheid respectively.
Marie-Elisabeth felt very sympathetic towards the new Dauphine
Adelheid, to have been forced into marriage must be a most terrible ordeal and to
Louis. She knew
Louis well having been raised together and she disliked him with a passion he was so terribly ill mannered and conceited, poor
Princess Adelheid.
William on the other hand felt no sympathy for the
Princess, he always said it was a womans duty to follow a mans rule..
Marie had given up arguing with him, she knew she couldn't change his opinions, though she often managed to bend them to her will. She knew he wasn't happy she had bore him a daughter and not a son but she was sure god would grant them a son when the time was right. And of course she doted on little
Louisa, she spent many happy hours just gazing at her perfect sleeping daughter.
Since their arrival in Bial
William and Marie-Elisabeth have had a difficult time settling in and haven't made many friends amongst the native's the Bial, thanks to anti French sentiment. However they did have a very good selection of friends amongst the 'foreigners of Bial'.