Madonna Tremaine

**Lady Madonna Tremaine**, née **Basile** (1830) is the matriarch of the Tremaine clan. Originally from a small town in northern Italy, she became known as an intelligent individual in the French salons and married into French nobility twice. She is one of the most ambitious individuals of the twentieth century.

## Appearance

Madonna has sharp features and a hooked nose. She is very tall for both French and Italian standards and has broad shoulders. She is known for her grey hair, which was formerly dark like her elder daughter's, usually worn in a tall hairdo. She wears dark red and burgundy colours and usually wears emerald jewelry to match her green eyes.

## Personality

Lady Tremaine is an ambitious and snobbish individual who'll do anything to help her family. She is obsessed with marrying off her daughters. She is also intelligent, and has an analytical business-mind. She is also fun-loving, social and politically aware. She can also be jealous and abusive and she will use violance as a last resort. Her persuasiveness is well-known.

## Biography

### Childhood

Madonna was born as the middle of three children of Paolo and Ginevra Basile. Her mother had been married at only 15 to Paolo, who was a generally wealthy wine merchant. Her father died when she was only nine, after which her brother Otto was sent away with the last money to get an education.

Ginevra remarried, but Madonna's stepfather was cruel to her and her sister. Rowena married soon to a French man to escape their step-father. Madonna was initially bitter that Beauvais had chosen Rowena over herself because of Rowena's beauty but soon took advantage of the union and travelled with her sister and her husband to France.

### Early adulthood and marriage

There, she enjoyed the company of more and more nobles because of her charm, lust for life and intelligence. She waited patiently for the right man to marry, eventually settling on Francis Tremaine, a silk merchant, not a noble, but who loved her. She married him for love in 1855 aged 25. They had two daughters together:

1. Drizella Marie Anne Tremaine (1857)
2. Anastasia Louise Theresa Tremaine (1858)

### Second marriage

Her beloved husband died in 1865. Struggling to make ends meet, Madonna met and married Marcus Marchand, a wealthy nobleman, becoming a stepmother to his ten-year old daughter Ella. Within two years, Marcus died from consumption and his widow inherited the chateau and part of the fortune. Most money, however, was given to Ella upon her twenty-first birthday.

### Later years

Lady Tremaine continued to raise her daughters, but physically and emotionally abused her stepdaughter Ella for years. She was committed to marrying one of her daughters off to young Prince Henry, who was returning from fighting in a war. To do this, she also made sure to make enemies of the Prince's other possible matches, including:

* Princess Frederica Eugenie de la Fontaine
* Augustine DuBois, daughter of general Pierre DuBois.
* Leonora Mercedes de la Tour, daughter of Colonel de la Tour

Eventually, however, Prince Henry married Lady Tremaine's stepdaughter, Ella. Tremaine and her daughters were then tried and convicted for abuse, but thanks to the interference of Otto, Lady Tremaine's brother, they were granted a large house on an Isle in exile. Drizella and Anastasia were even pardonned, but they willingly followed their mother, Anastasia took her husband with her. On the Isle, she focussed on raising her grandchildren as proper nobles. She had seven grandchildren.

**Drizella**

* Bodille Tremaine (1882)
* Faustine Tremaine (1886)
* Huguette Tremaine (1888)
* Isabelle Tremaine (1893)

**Anastasia**

* Manon Tremaine (1884)
* Anthony Tremaine (1885)
* Lilith Tremaine (1887)
* Bruna Tremaine (1900)