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00:02they say every beautiful story starts the same way a hero saves a damsel and she gives him her
00:08heart forever but my story is not that it was my wedding night to duke kyle blackwood his lips were
00:14just inches from mine about to complete our vows then his servant burst pale and panicked your
00:20grace miss lena has collapsed her father just passed away without a word he abandoned our
00:26wedding and rushed out of the manor into the night from down the hall his voice carried through the
00:30house best physician in london at once lena is weak how can she bear such grief i stood there
00:36looking at the spilled wine the overturned table amanda my mother's maid her eyes were red lady
00:42alara this is too much tonight was your wedding night he left a lady of the realm alone on her
00:50wedding night for a court attack this is a disgrace all high society knew it all the noble world knew
00:56it the great duke of blackwood's heart had long belonged to that courtesan tonight i lived the
01:01truth of it and the truth was worse than any rumor the wedding candles burned through the night
01:06the duke did not come back
01:10but the truth is the rumors started long before our wedding duke kyle blackwood had stepped in to
01:16protect a fragile young woman named lena a courtesan who was being harassed by powerful
01:20nobles at the top salons lena was the kind of woman you couldn't look away from slender seemingly
01:26fragile but with the beauty that left every noble in the room speechless a lord tried to force her into
01:32marriage the duke stopped her a hero saves the helpless woman she gives him her heart an old
01:38table but then the duke said something that surprised everyone i have no duchess so i will not take a
01:44mistress lightly lena deserves better than that she should not be treated that way the queen heard
01:48about it too she worried i would be hurt so before the wedding she called me to the palace alora
01:54you've
01:55heard the rumors about blackwood and that corsant if you're not comfortable with this match i can
01:59cancel it i won't blame you my parents and brothers had all died fighting for the world the queen honored
02:05house calloway's sacrifice and took me in she gave me something almost no woman had ever received
02:11she let me inherit the calloway family title she had always been more than fair to me far more than
02:17the crown required but becoming duchess of blackwood was the queen's own command it couldn't be undone
02:22easily so i knelt before her and said what i had to say your majesty i am not wronged the
02:29duke is one
02:30of the most powerful noble of esholy's generation this is exactly the married i want there's no need
02:36to cancel it as for the rumors noble marriages were never about love as long as he didn't humiliate me
02:42after the wedding i could live with it but i never imagined that the humiliation of my wedding night
02:47was only the beginning
02:50the next morning i went to pay my respects to the duke's mother kyle was already there lena clung to
02:56his side dressed head to toe in black mourning clothes it was a style noble woman almost never
03:02wore its hem barely reaches her thighs she hid behind the duke she swayed like she might collapse
03:07at any moment then right in front of me she sank into a deep curtsy lena greets the duchess last
03:13night
03:13was all my fault i ruined your grace's wedding night please punish me however you wish then the duke's
03:18face was caught between guilt and pleading her father just died she has no one now nobles are circling
03:24her trying to force her into marriage she has nowhere to go i thought i could take her as my
03:29mistress give her a place to belong if you can't accept this i'll send her away at once and you'll
03:35never see her again lena wept in silence she lifted her head her face soft and helpless please
03:41your grace have mercy lena has nowhere else to go if there's no place for me here then lena would
03:47rather die elora the decision is yours
03:53our family is known for kindness and generosities as duchess i trust you'll choose the true one
04:04i
04:07taking her as a mistress costs you nothing her status will never surpass yours
04:11if i refused i was cruel if i accepted i was a fool the play had been written before i
04:16even
04:16walked through the door my lord saved lena's life lena swore to repay him i am willing to take
04:22the medicine and will never challenge your position elora lena doesn't scheme you don't have to be so
04:28hard on her
04:31your grace please my lady can't take that potion she's already carrying the duke's child help her up
04:37at once a woman with child must not perform deep carefuls why didn't you tell me how long have you
04:43been carrying this alone i thought i would quietly end the pregnancy myself so you wouldn't have to
04:47suffer because of me elora even if this child is born it will never surpass your children but this
04:53is kale's blood we cannot abandon it when the child is born it will call you mother i looked at
05:00the three
05:00of them watching their tears and performance i smiled if his feelings are as deep as the rumors say
05:06he should make her duchess that would be a love story worth telling for generations
05:11kale relaxed at the first half of my words then the second half hit his face hardened make her duchess
05:18elora lena and i have never what never loved each other or the child she's carrying isn't yours
05:23you once announced i will not take mistresses lightly now i understand what those words really meant not
05:28a mistress just a secret kept in the shadows isn't that right duchess
05:36lena is not that kind of woman lena only only loves him i never asked for more not even a
05:43mistress then that's worse at least a mistress has a title without one what will her child be when
05:50it's born a bastard with no standing in society lena didn't mean whatever you meant i will give
05:55your love exactly what it deserves my lady last night's wedding ceremony was never completed the duke
06:02spent his wedding night with lena all of my attendants saw it every servant in this manner
06:05can testify to it therefore this engagement is void
06:12what do you mean i know last night was my fault but lena's father had just died i had no
06:17choice
06:18this won't happen again we start over i will spend the rest of my life making this up to you
06:24if you dissolve this engagement you are trampling the queen's command do you understand what that
06:29means pale this engagement was the queen's gift and you buried it on the very first night abandoning
06:36your duchess to comfort a court sir if the queen seeks to punish anyone she will not punish the
06:40orphan daughter of a general that you abandoned you speak to me of duty when you decided what she
06:44needed did you spare even one second to think of me duchess please this is all lena's fault
06:49i will leave the manor right now you will never see me again i will never let the duke fall
06:54into
06:54trouble because of me she stepped closer and lowered her voice so only i could hear lady calloway
07:00he has always chosen me he always will you never had a chance if you leave the queen will punish
07:06the
07:06duke please if anyone should go let it be me you really want me to stay then hear this clearly
07:12if i stay you will never set foot in this manner again not once lena doesn't know what to do
07:20please duchess tell lena she turned to the duke her voice turning small and fragile
07:27kail did lena do something wrong lena only wanted to repay you lena can be a servant lena asks for
07:34nothing only please let lena stay by your side alara let her stay she defers to you in everything
07:43you have my word he still thought he was worth bargaining duke kail my answer stands the
07:50engagement is dissolved from this day forward your life has nothing to do with mine lena clutched her
07:55black mourning dress putting on a pitiful act as she made to turn away if the duchess has no place
08:01for
08:01me then i shall leave there's no need for more words kyle grabbed her arm you're not going anywhere
08:08i am the duke of blackwood everything in this malice is mine to decide he turned to me
08:15i am merely giving her a protected status what noble house in london hasn't taken in a woman in
08:21distress what duchess would make such a scene over this he slowly stood up straight you're nothing more
08:27than an orphan sheltered by royal favor your title was given your status was given step outside this manor
08:34you have nowhere to go do you really believe the queen will go to war with house blackwood over
08:40you he thought he had cornered me he forgot what i was i was the daughter of the callowah hill
08:46line
08:47before for the crown ever took me in i was already forged in iron and blood true nobility does not
08:53kneel amanda my voice carried clear and steady through the hall pack our things raise the callowage crest
09:01i lifted my gaze cold and proud we are returning to the calloway estate
09:09the room went silent
09:15this is no retreat it is the beginning of his ruin
09:20the calloway estate had been sealed for over a decade since my father and brothers fell on colonial
09:26battlefields this manor once the very symbol of english martial nobility had been locked away
09:33untouched life left the servants shine the silver candle lips and brass fixtures they relit the marble
09:39hearts in the great hall i personally oversee the restoration of the family library and the gallery of
09:45military honors my father's battle maps his sword his portrait his medals every detail placed
09:53according to the strict customs of victorian nobility i stood at the center of the great hall
09:59looking up at the portraits of my ancestors my spine was straight i had lost an engagement
10:05i had lost the shelter of a husband but i had not lost my blood i had not lost my
10:12honor
10:13on the seventh day after the estate came back to life a carriage bearing the royal crest drew up before
10:19the
10:19gates a royal messenger in red uniform bowed and presented a letter sealed with wax
10:25the summons from the palace had arrived
10:29i entered the carpeted audience chamber
10:32lowered myself into a graceful curty before the queen
10:35then knelt in silence back straight waiting to be addressed
10:39i knelt before her composure unbroken your majesty the engagement between myself and the duke of
10:46blackwood cannot proceed his heart belongs to another and miss lena is already with child beside me amanda
10:54knelt as well tears streaming down her face as she recounted every detail of the wedding night
11:00the queen listened from her throne her expression growing darker by the moment
11:05i knew blackwood was frivolous of heart she said at last but i did not him so bold
11:13to abandon a royal engagement on the wedding night itself for a courtesaire
11:20she exhaled slowly her tone softening as she offered a reminder
11:25but illara if you retreat to the calloway estate now london society will talk
11:31i lifted my gaze my eyes were clear my voice was steady
11:35your majesty the fault was not mine my father and brothers gave their lives for this realm
11:43the honor of house calloway i can uphold it myself
11:47the queen was silent for a long moment then something like approval surfaced in her eyes
11:53you are truly your father's daughter strength honor house callaghan will rise again by your hand
12:00with those words the audience this matter of dignity of honor came to its close
12:06and i at last had walked completely out of the cage called marriage
12:12three days after my audience at the palace the queen's royal gifts began arriving at the calloway
12:18estate word spread the tide of london society turned overnight the lords the generals widows the ladies
12:26of title those who had kept their distance when my engagement fell apart now sent their calling
12:32cards eager to renew their ties with house calloway the countess of harwit came herself
12:39she took both my hands in hers her voice earnest
12:42illara you carry the spirit of a warrior's daughter you have the crown's favor you deserve nothing less than
12:50the finest this world has to offer blackwood and that cordycet they are but specks of dust in your
12:56path do not waste a thought on them i received them with poise every gesture impeculate neither pride
13:04nor resentment marved my composure victorian high society does not weep for tears it bows only to
13:11those who hold their honor high and stand with their backs straight i had not cried i had not begged
13:18i had
13:19not clung to any man and yet by blood of the calloway line by the trust of the crown i
13:26had claimed the
13:26most honorable place in london society all of this kale blackwood did not yet know he still believed in
13:34his innocence that i was merely smoking that in a few days i would swallow my pride and come back
13:40to
13:40blackwood manor he would never know that i had already walked towards something far freer far brighter
13:47far more my own than any duchess's title could ever be
13:53kale had always believed that i was merely throwing a tantrum a bride wronged on her wedding
13:58night nothing more he was certain that in a few days i would swallow my pride return to blackwood
14:04manor not until the crown's gifts arrived at calloway house not until the old allies entitled ladies
14:10began arriving at my door did the truth finally strike him i was never coming back i submitted the
14:16formal dissolution of the engagement to the ecclesiastical court for filing soon after the
14:21queen addressed the matter at court blackwood has set aside the match i arranged for him in favor to a
14:28court asate i will not force a man to honor what he has already dishonored all of london understood clearly
14:35the queen's displeasure was never with me the disappointment the disdain they belonged to kale
14:40blackwood when word reached blackwood manor hell found himself like a beast caught in a trap no room
14:46to maneuver he had no choice left but to marry the courtesan who carried his child but he never
14:51understood that in the world of victorian nobility no great house would ever accept a courtesan wearing
14:56the blackwood ducal crown he had torn apart the crown's dignity with his own hands and with those
15:01same hands he had thrown his family's honor into the mud the humiliation that awaited him the mockery
15:08had only just begun in london a noble wedding was never a private matter it was a ceremony of lineage
15:16of honor of the crown's recognition but the wedding of kyle and lena was a laughing got from
15:20the very start on the day of the ceremony the guests filled the hall yet not a single heart carried
15:25genuine well wishes they had all come to witness how this scandal would unfold let the bride step forward to
15:31receive her vows suddenly her face changed her stomach turned she could no longer hold it back
15:39before the eyes of every guest lena bent over and vomited onto the ceremonial carpet the air frozen
15:45then pandemonium take her away the honor of house blackman has been dragged through the mud
15:57the hasty wedding barely begun ended in contempt and chaos the once charming duke of blackwood had
16:03become overnight the greatest joke in london's movie
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