You have now been Queen Consort of [name_m]Germany[/name_m] for 12 years, “ruling” beside your husband and taking care of your 13 children with the limited help of a governess. You have become quite comfortable with your aristocratic way of life until everything comes crashing down.
A famine destroys your country’s most vital crop, the wheat crops.
Because of the famine your husband is away most of the year, and with your children being chased after by nurses and maids and governesses you become very bored and lonely without their company. That is, until a handsome young Englishmen appears at court and starts to pay extra attention to your Majesty.
His name is [name_m]Sir[/name_m] [name_m]Draven[/name_m] [name_m]Frederick[/name_m] [name_u]Nightingale[/name_u].
He entertains you with his wit and far fetched tales and you enchant him with your luminous smile and brazen behavior. It isn’t long before he is your lover and you two are sneaking around the palace trying to avoid being discovered. Regardless of the condition of your marriage, you love him more than anyone you’ve ever loved.
However, only a few months into the affair you find yourself pregnant by [name_m]Draven[/name_m]. You are not sure what becomes of adulteress Queens in [name_m]Germany[/name_m] but you know form your childhood history lessons that it is never good.
I go on a long journey and decide what to do once they’re born. I have a boy and girl named [name_f]Isabella[/name_f] [name_f]Rose[/name_f] [name_u]Nightingale[/name_u] & [name_u]James[/name_u] [name_m]Donatello[/name_m] [name_u]Nightingale[/name_u].
You love your little ones very dearly, and it pains you not to acknowledge them as your own children. But if anyone knew what went on between you and [name_m]Draven[/name_m] both your lives and your children’s life would be in mortal danger. You decide it would be best if [name_m]Draven[/name_m] returned to England for a while to ease suspicions and the two of you share a passionate goodbye in the palace gardens.
That very night [name_u]Charlie[/name_u] return’s to court. The two of sit down to a private dinner, which you find strange since neither of you have dined with your children in ages. After a very long stretch of silence he tells you that he knows all about [name_m]Draven[/name_m], [name_u]James[/name_u] and [name_f]Isabella[/name_f]. That your eldest sister [name_f]Faith[/name_f], who you confide in about everything, wrote him a letter telling him all about it. You then realize that your sister, after 15 years, is still bitter because your husband chose you as his wife over her. Your husband goes on to say that you will now be confined to your chambers with only one maid in attendance, and you will be denied further access to all of your children. You are obviously upset and enraged at your husband’s decree, You tell him exactly why you had an affair, make him realize his faults against you.
The two of you make up and you have another child together, a healthy boy. [name_u]Noah[/name_u] [name_u]Benjamin[/name_u] [name_u]George[/name_u]. However it is only a few months later that your husband dies suddenly of terminal illness. Your oldest son [name_u]Archer[/name_u] is still too young to take the throne so you are crowned Queen Regent and have all the governing power in the land.
