The Star of Lancaster
“Her father had bouts of madness. People did not at first talk about this to her. She just heard that he had attacks. These attacks could last for months and when they were in progress he would be shut up in the Hôtel St Pol, that Paris residence where she had spent much of her childhood. When he recovered her father was just as she had always remembered him, kindly and seeming in full possession of his senses, but she detected a wariness in both him and the people around him and she knew they were watching for the madness to break out again.
There was her mother – beautiful, and forceful so that she seemed to be the real ruler of France, with Uncle Louis of course.
Louis Duc d’Orléans, her father’s brother, had been appointed by the King to be Regent during his bouts of madness. The Queen who had great influence with the King had advised this and sometimes it seemed to Isabella that her mother and her uncle wanted her father to fall into madness, for when he did Uncle Louis behaved as... though he were the King and it was obvious to everyone – even young Isabella – that Isabeau acted as though Louis was not only the King on the throne but in her bed as well.MoreLess
There was her mother – beautiful, and forceful so that she seemed to be the real ruler of France, with Uncle Louis of course.
Louis Duc d’Orléans, her father’s brother, had been appointed by the King to be Regent during his bouts of madness. The Queen who had great influence with the King had advised this and sometimes it seemed to Isabella that her mother and her uncle wanted her father to fall into madness, for when he did Uncle Louis behaved as... though he were the King and it was obvious to everyone – even young Isabella – that Isabeau acted as though Louis was not only the King on the throne but in her bed as well.MoreLess
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