I am Françoise Marie de Bourbon, I was the youngest illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of 14, I married my first cousin Philippe d'Orléans, the future regent of France during the minority of Louis XV. Through two of my eight children, I became the ancestress of several of Europe's Roman Catholic monarchs of the 19th and 20th centuries—notably those of Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and France.