PRINCESS SOPHIA OF ENGLAND // Intro // Pinterest // Sophia's Closet
Sophia Godwin is the only daughter of Queen Elinor and King Henry, and thus she was seen more as a commodity to those in her father’s court. Growing up, Sophia was given the best education, learning to master the domestic arts as well as the political workings of any royal court. While Queen Elinor wanted the very best for her daughter, Sophia knew that her role was to strengthen the crown through an advantageous political alliance. It was what she was raised to do, but as she grew older, the reality of it crept closer, and Sophia declined any matches that Queen Elinor arranged. Mother and daughter grew apart with Queen Elinor’s insistence and Sophia’s stubbornness to the point where the two hadn’t spoken for three months at one point! King George doted on his daughter before his health declined. Where the Queen was eager to match and marry her daughter off, King George was content to keep her by his side, unofficially as his advisor, though it was more of an excuse to teach Sophia the inner workings of the kingdom.
As her father’s health worsened, Sophia’s time with him went away, and she was left with just her mother. The queen’s desire to have Sophia married heightened so much so that Sophia ran away with her father’s equerry. Sophia wasn’t gone for longer than three days, but it was enough for rumours to start, though the queen had tried her best to silence them. Since then, Sophia had lived in her mother’s cloistered household, often referring to it as a nunnery, though Queen Elinor frequently reminded her daughter that a nunnery held no value to them. Instead, Sophia watched from the sidelines as her mother’s marriage soured, and her eldest brother was married off to a woman no one thought he loved. The House of Godwin were truly a state, though publicly they all supported one another.
1813, Queen Elinor finally had enough of her daughter’s refusal to marry. Bringing her out from the shadows of the queen’s household, Sophia is allowed to take part in this year's social season. Sophia still refuses to marry, but after a year hidden away, Sophia longs to cause nothing but trouble to ruin her mother’s marriage market. With a new anonymous writer documenting all of their scandals, will Sophia survive the season, or will she succumb to her mother's wishes?