Frederic D'Aubigne

[Crystal]

Frederic D'Aubgine

Title: His Royal Highness, King Frederic of France
Age: 58
Birthday:
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Brown
Heritage: French
Occupation: le king!
Friends: The population of France
Enemies:

[Crystal]

The things that have happened lately come as a shock to me. First, I find out from Charles Hainsworth that Alain is not my son. My Alain! I find out that my wife, with whom I was already struggling with, lied to me about Alain's adoption. My first son died, a stillborn, and she covered it up by adopting Alain so that she would not be seen as a disgrace to neither Denmark or France. It was a selfish move. I have spent days reviewing policies about the line of succession to the throne of France and other countries. To make a long story short, my endless hours of research has shown me that an adopted son who is not related by blood, cannot take over the throne. There is no way around it, unless I suppose he was the only child.

So now I have come to a dilemma. A fraction of my heart wants to be true to myself. I have considered Alain my son for his entire life, and I think with a little work (and reconstructing the public's opinion of him) he would make a good king. However, the other part of my heart knows that by doing so I would continue to deceive the country of France. When it comes out, my reputation as king would be tarnished because I had deceived the entire country for decades. Lies always come out, especially when you are in the public eye. It would be found out that Alain was not the true heir, through blood tests down the line from his children and his children's children. It will be known that they did not have D'Aubigne blood in them at all. People will revolt because whoever holds the throne then would not be the rightful monarch. Philippe's future family is the rightful heir to the thone. I am not sure what to do. I am young, so hopefully this will not come into play for quite sometime, but I need Philippe to be ready, just in case. He has a long way to go.

I know it hurts Alain, but I am doing my job as both king to this country and father to this family. What more can I do?

[Crystal]

September 9, 2007

I am not sure what to say about this. I am hesitate to even write it down, although this is locked in a secret safe in my office.

Charles Hainsworth visited me the other day. The things he told me...I am shocked. Surprised. Angry. It would seem that for nearly 21 years my wife has been lying to me. Alain, my heir, who I thought was my eldest son, is not my son at all as it turns out. He was adopted to cover for a stillbirth that my wife had. She has deceived me and I am angry beyond words. I cannot begind to express my frustrations with her.

I went to speak with Alain about it. He knew, of course. That is why him and Jacqueline approached me a while back concerning the topic. I had blown it off then, but I should have listened. To know he was not my son...it hurt. I was angry. I was going to tell him that this deception could not go on, but as I entered the room he was in, seeing him playing the piano so beautifully, I watched him and realized I could never do that to him. I could never look him in the face, this boy that I watched grow up and who thought was my own son, and tell him that he is not mind and could not be my heir. We went for a drive together and that helped tremendously. Blood relation or not, he is still my son. He is a victim in my wife's deception just as I am. Adopted children are just as much part of families these days as true offspring. I think of Alain as my son. How could I not? I cannot change my feelings after two decades of being his father.

Alain is still to be my heir. I have seemed to have grown a sort of new appreciation for him. Part of me feels that perhaps I do not even truly know him, although I know that is not true. But I will try harder to be a good father to him, to show him that it does not matter if he is related to me or not. I do not think I took time to get to know my children, but I realize I need to, starting with Alain.