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Long before Humphrey Bone lost his head (literally), he and his tempestuous French wife Sophie shared one unexpected chapter of family duty: a daughter. Harriett Marthe BΓ©atrice Bone, born to secure the lineage Sophie never cared for, became the quiet light of Humphrey's life. Sophie, icy and ambitious βοΈπ, could barely disguise her disdain - but Humphrey adored his gentle, scholarly girl, who preferred books, birds, and sketching over courtly politics πποΈβοΈ.
Tragedy struck first when Harriett died at nineteen of scarlet fever in 1565 ππΉ, her apologetic ghost lingering in Button House. Kind, nervous, and desperately eager to be helpful, she spent a decade watching her father bumble around blissfully unaware that Sophie was plotting rebellion: a coup to replace Elizabeth I with Mary, Queen of Scots βοΈπ.
Unable to communicate with the living - or with her very-much-living father - Harriett watched history unfold helplessly until Humphrey discovered Sophie's treachery... and promptly had his head knocked off in one of history's most anticlimactic executions ππͺ.
Now reunited in the afterlife, father and daughter haunt Button House together. Humphrey is delighted. Harriett is relieved. And everyone else is mildly confused why the new ghost insists on tidying absolutely everything.
π A daughter forgotten by history... but not by her headless dad.