isabellaofvalois
England has won.
King Henry stands victorious over France, a ruler shaped not by glory, but by war, cold, controlled and merciless. Peace is not offered freely it is taken, sealed not with trust, but with conquest.
The Princess of France is given to him as part of that peace.
Small, composed and untouched by the chaos that surrounds her, she is nothing like the broken kingdom she represents.
To Henry, she is not a bride, but a duty. A means to secure his claim. An heir to be borne, nothing more.
And as king and princess learn to navigate a marriage forged in blood, they discover something far more unsettling than war:
An equal.