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HelpRe: KUY Royal Congrats ▓▒░ Round 5 ░▒▓
in reply to a message by Nyx
King: Louis Robert Gaspard Charlemagne (47)
(-Late Queen 1: Terese Frantziska Adela)
--D: Princess Anne Louisa Elisabeth Adelaide (20)
---H: Hereditary Prince Lysander Caspian Feodor Orlando of Forestmere (23)
--D: Princess Therese Josephine Felicia Beatrice) (18)
(-Mistress: Lady Jeanne Antoinette de Launay)
--S: Geoffrey Roland Louis, Duke of Illyria (12)
(-Late Queen 2: Isabella Clementina Rosalba Violetta (25))
--D: Princess Cecile Isabella Eleanore Mathilde (9)
(--S: Prince Gabriel Louis Clement Etienne)
--D/D: Princess Gabrielle Aimee Clarissa Eloise/Princess Louise Emeline Ginevra Marguerite (6)
--S: Crown Prince Raphael Isidore Louis Maxence (2)
-Queen: Francoise Catherine Madeleine d'Aubigné, Marquise of Mallenon (30)
--S/D: Prince Alexandre Severin Desiré Tyrian/Princess Isabelle Rose Constance Eulalie
(I'm making Francoise a bit older--she just doesn't feel like a 23 in my mind.)
Just a month after their wedding, a royal announcement is made that the new Queen is pregnant. This news is met with not much enthusiasm--the kingdom was quite fond of Isabella, and they felt Louis remarried too soon. Françoise enjoys her pregnancy, milking it for all that it's worth--she is carried in a litter even throughout the palace and makes her ladies in waiting do the simplest tasks for her. She only acknowledges the children when she is with Louis during state functions. Therese especially despises Francoise, calling her "La Vache" (the cow) in her letters to Anne, who is also pregnant and is planning on naming her unborn baby Isabella, if it proves to be female.
However, when Francoise gives birth only six months later, rumors begin to spread that Francoise was pregnant before she married the King and used it as a bargaining chip to bully the king into making her his legitimate wife--or, as the bolder ones said, that she was carrying another man's child. Though Louis expressly denies it, he is surprised and even somewhat grudgingly impressed on how spot-on the rumors were: as he had a healthy son and heir, Louis had no interest in marrying after Isabella's death. Francoise had come to him in his private quarters and told him that she was pregnant with his child and demanded that he marry her, threatening to kill herself if he refused. Quite well aware of the headache that illegitimate children caused him and certainly not wanting blood on his hands, Louis agreed to marry Francoise, knowing that her thirst for power would be mollified and that she expected neither intimacy nor fidelity from him. He also was not particularly concerned with his new children's parentage--as far as he knew, Francoise wasn't sleeping with anyone but him, but one could never particularly be sure of these things anyway and it was highly unlikely that the boy would ascend the throne anyway.
Francoise gave birth to not one, but two healthy babies: a boy, Prince Alexandre, and a girl Princess Isabelle. Anne and Therese were furious at Francoise's choice of name for their new sister--they saw through it as an obsequious attempt to win the favor of their father, and thought it to be in extremely poor taste, considering that Francoise and Isabella were not even on speaking terms at the time of Isabella's death. Therese even appeals to her father in private, imploring him to convince Francoise to change her mind, but Louis will hear none of it, and tells her to concern herself with more important matters, such as attempting to make herself more attractive for a future husband.
Francoise leaves her twins in the care of the two palace nursemaids--one of which had been there since Anne was born and the other hired right before Cecile's birth--and visits them occasionally, quickly going back to her life of partying, gambling, and idle amusements. At first Therese wants nothing to do with the babies, knowing that they were part her, but one day visits the nursery and can't help but be enchanted with the two happy, smiling little creatures. They were her siblings after all, and their parentage couldn't be helped. Cecile, Gabrielle, Louise, and Raphael also took quickly to their new brother and sister, and even Geoffrey couldn't help but be excited to at least have a new brother.
(-Late Queen 1: Terese Frantziska Adela)
--D: Princess Anne Louisa Elisabeth Adelaide (20)
---H: Hereditary Prince Lysander Caspian Feodor Orlando of Forestmere (23)
--D: Princess Therese Josephine Felicia Beatrice) (18)
(-Mistress: Lady Jeanne Antoinette de Launay)
--S: Geoffrey Roland Louis, Duke of Illyria (12)
(-Late Queen 2: Isabella Clementina Rosalba Violetta (25))
--D: Princess Cecile Isabella Eleanore Mathilde (9)
(--S: Prince Gabriel Louis Clement Etienne)
--D/D: Princess Gabrielle Aimee Clarissa Eloise/Princess Louise Emeline Ginevra Marguerite (6)
--S: Crown Prince Raphael Isidore Louis Maxence (2)
-Queen: Francoise Catherine Madeleine d'Aubigné, Marquise of Mallenon (30)
--S/D: Prince Alexandre Severin Desiré Tyrian/Princess Isabelle Rose Constance Eulalie
(I'm making Francoise a bit older--she just doesn't feel like a 23 in my mind.)
Just a month after their wedding, a royal announcement is made that the new Queen is pregnant. This news is met with not much enthusiasm--the kingdom was quite fond of Isabella, and they felt Louis remarried too soon. Françoise enjoys her pregnancy, milking it for all that it's worth--she is carried in a litter even throughout the palace and makes her ladies in waiting do the simplest tasks for her. She only acknowledges the children when she is with Louis during state functions. Therese especially despises Francoise, calling her "La Vache" (the cow) in her letters to Anne, who is also pregnant and is planning on naming her unborn baby Isabella, if it proves to be female.
However, when Francoise gives birth only six months later, rumors begin to spread that Francoise was pregnant before she married the King and used it as a bargaining chip to bully the king into making her his legitimate wife--or, as the bolder ones said, that she was carrying another man's child. Though Louis expressly denies it, he is surprised and even somewhat grudgingly impressed on how spot-on the rumors were: as he had a healthy son and heir, Louis had no interest in marrying after Isabella's death. Francoise had come to him in his private quarters and told him that she was pregnant with his child and demanded that he marry her, threatening to kill herself if he refused. Quite well aware of the headache that illegitimate children caused him and certainly not wanting blood on his hands, Louis agreed to marry Francoise, knowing that her thirst for power would be mollified and that she expected neither intimacy nor fidelity from him. He also was not particularly concerned with his new children's parentage--as far as he knew, Francoise wasn't sleeping with anyone but him, but one could never particularly be sure of these things anyway and it was highly unlikely that the boy would ascend the throne anyway.
Francoise gave birth to not one, but two healthy babies: a boy, Prince Alexandre, and a girl Princess Isabelle. Anne and Therese were furious at Francoise's choice of name for their new sister--they saw through it as an obsequious attempt to win the favor of their father, and thought it to be in extremely poor taste, considering that Francoise and Isabella were not even on speaking terms at the time of Isabella's death. Therese even appeals to her father in private, imploring him to convince Francoise to change her mind, but Louis will hear none of it, and tells her to concern herself with more important matters, such as attempting to make herself more attractive for a future husband.
Francoise leaves her twins in the care of the two palace nursemaids--one of which had been there since Anne was born and the other hired right before Cecile's birth--and visits them occasionally, quickly going back to her life of partying, gambling, and idle amusements. At first Therese wants nothing to do with the babies, knowing that they were part her, but one day visits the nursery and can't help but be enchanted with the two happy, smiling little creatures. They were her siblings after all, and their parentage couldn't be helped. Cecile, Gabrielle, Louise, and Raphael also took quickly to their new brother and sister, and even Geoffrey couldn't help but be excited to at least have a new brother.
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