“I will not marry the queen’s toy” you defiantly stated. Everyone knew how Manuel Godoy had become suddenly so powerful in the court; you were not deaf to the rumours.!No matter how handsome he was, and how much favour you would win by becoming the wife of the queen’s favourite… You would not marry a man whose bed you would be forced to share with another, even if that another was the Queen consort itself, the one who had instigated the union. However… Things would take a different turn.