The Starfleet Officer Takes A Bride

The Coming Out Of Lady Caroline Matilda Carey

Lady Caroline Matilda Carey turns 15 years old in June of 2297, and in August she will attend the Coming Out Event for all the daughters of aristocrats and Lady Karissa prepares Lady Caroline Matilda for her coming event.

She has a beautiful white satin Regency dress and wears flowers in her hair and she tells her third daughter " You are not on the marriage market Lady Caroline Matilda. You don't have to marry unless you want too, but you were born to inherit The Dukedom of Bedford Territory and marriage proposal has to be approved by your father and your second cousin once removed, you are the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Lord Patrick William Howard, Lord Edmund Beaufort and Lord John Carey and you must marry someone worthy for you."

" I don't think your father would stand in your way if you want to marry a commoner or even from a good gentry family." Lady Karissa tells her.

Lady Caroline Matilda has not told her father or mother how she feels for Lord Kevin Thomas Riley The Second and only her dear brother, Lord Anthony Christopher Howard knows how the two feel for each other.

Lord Anthony Christopher tells both of them " Lady Caroline Matilda. You must be 18 years old before you can marry."

"Mama. Let Lady Samhain marry when she was only 17 years old." Lady Caroline Matilda tells her brother.

"Lady Samhain was going to turn 18 in October and Lord David William Beck The Second was going to turn 18 in December." Lord Anthony Christopher explains.

"Your father and mama may agree to it when you turn 17 in two years and Lord Kevin Thomas Riley turns 19 and you two can marry in August of 2300." Lord Anthony tells them both.

"I wouldn't bank on it sis." Lord Anthony tells Lady Caroline Matilda and Lord Kevin Thomas Riley The Second.

"I haven't even told my father and our mother that I am in love with our second cousin, Lady Alexandrina Charlene Stuart and she will be there this evening with you." Lord Anthony Christopher tells his sister.

"My damn father doesn't get along with my first cousin once removed, my grandmother and her grandfather were sister and brother." Lord Anthony tells his sister.

"I am going to appeal to our sister, Lady Elizabeth and to our mother and mother and get along with Lady Josephine Isabella." Lord Anthony tells his sister.

Lady Karissa Elizabeth Ann

 and Lady Josephine Isabella

 are both sitting and watching from the balcony as Lord Richard William Carey presents Lady Caroline Matilda

 and shortly thereafter Lord Alexander Charles Stuart presents Lady Alexandrina Charlene Stuart.

In the crowd are Lord Anthony Christopher Howard, Duke of Lancaster Territory, Lt Kevin Thomas Riley and his son, Lord Kevin Thomas Riley The Second.

Lady Josephine Isabella asks Lady Karissa " Where is Lord Howard this evening?"

"I left Lord Howard home to take care of our children." Lady Karissa tells Lady Josephine Isabella with a laugh.

"I had to come with Lord Anthony Christopher, Lady Caroline Matilda and Lord Richard William Carey." Lady Karissa explains.

"Karissa. I meant to tell you that Lord Anthony Christopher and Lady Alexandrina are writing to each other." Lady Josephine tells her.

"Josephine. I don't think there is any law preventing our children writing to each other as they are second cousins through their grandmother and grandfather and they share the same terrible great-grandfather, Lord David Alexander Stuart." Karissa says with a laugh.

"Lord Anthony Christopher is only 17 years and Lady Alexandrina is only 15 and they can't marry each other until 2300." Lady Karissa explains.

"Lord Anthony Christopher is a romantic at heart and knowing him he will go against his father's wishes." Lady Karissa tells her "I will go to bat for him and I know you will do the same."

"I will Karissa. Lord Alexander Charles, Lady Catherine Gordon wouldn't even attend our marriage and she has been forbidden to see any of her grandchildren, but Lord James was able to see them." Lady Josephine tells Lady Karissa..

Lady Josephine Isabella and Lady Karissa Elizabeth Ann sit together on the balcony as the fathers talk with each other and the young people mingle with each other.