The Howard's of Star Base 12

Like Father, Like Daughter

Lord Andrew Charles Howard had four daughters, and his eldest daughter, Lady Elizabeth Victoria Ann Beltane Howard. She was the child that paved the way, so her father could inherit the Dukedom of Norfolk Territory. 

Lady Elizabeth Victoria Ann Beltane Howard was the answer to her grandfather's prayer, and he had to wait for her to arrive for 33 years.

Lord Charles Andrew Howard JR had three sons, Lord Charles Andrew Howard III, Lord Patrick William Howard II and Lord Andrew Charles. Neither Lord Charles Andrew Howard III nor Lord Patrick William Howard II had children until Lady Elizabeth Victoria Ann Beltane Howard was born on May 1, 2175.

Lord Andrew Charles Howard was not even 25 years old when Lady Elizabeth Victoria Ann Beltane was born, but Lord Charles Andrew Howard JR was delighted with the news that he had a granddaughter.

Lady Elizabeth Victoria Ann Beltane was very much like her father, Lord Andrew Charles. She was proud, rebellious, and defiant, as her own father was.

Lady Elizabeth Victoria Ann Beltane was always told by her paternal grandfather that she had come to govern Norfolk Territory and she never let her father forget it that it was with her birth that made it possible for her father to become Duke of Norfolk Territory.

Lord Andrew Charles didn't like to be remind that a mere girl came to make him Duke of Norfolk Territory and he had secretly wished that she had been a son, but Lady Elizabeth's mother, Lady Karissa refused to marry Lord Andrew Charles unless he could give her a daughter that she could name Lady Elizabeth Victoria Ann Beltane.

Lady Karissa would have never married Lord Andrew Charles if their first child was a son, but she would have given him a second chance to deliver up the daughter of her dreams and until which time they would have a morganatic marriage.

If one of Lord Andrew Charles Howard eldest brothers had a child, the Dukedom would have gone to them as their child would have been born in wedlock.

Lord Andrew Charles Howard was lucky when Lady Karissa informed him in August of 2274 that the child, she was carrying was a daughter and she agreed to marry him as she promised him.

Lord Andrew Charles Howard and Lady Karissa Elizabeth Ann Lowell were married on Ostara of 2275 (Spring Equinox) and 45 days later Lady Elizabeth Victoria Ann Beltane was born out at Norfolk Estate.

She would be their only child that would be born at Norfolk Estate and their four other children would be born out at Beltane Manor.

It was out in the foothills of Bedford Territory surrounded by plush green lawns, gardens and singing birds.

It was free of any ancestry ghosts of the Howard family and Lady Karissa didn't want her children to be raised around their ancestry ghosts.

Lady Karissa tells Lord Andrew Charles " The Howard's have a bloody history of High Treason against the Monarchs, look what Lord Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk did to two of his nieces, and Karma came back in bite him on his damn ass, and look at his son, and grandson, both executed for high treason." 

"The Howard's didn't get their Dukedom back until King Charles II of England." Lady Karissa states.

"I guess Karma thought she had completed her job and made sure that Lord Thomas Howard became the sixth Duke of Norfolk under King Charles II of England." Lady Karissa states.

"I know what you are thinking but it won't come true that Lord Anthony will succeed you to the Dukedom of Norfolk and it will be Lady Elizabeth. " Lady Karissa states " So suck it up." 

"I have come to crush the Patriarch that was started by your great-great-grandfather in 2165." Lady Karissa states. " Lady Elizabeth will usher the dawn of a new age on Star Base 12."