| Claude and Leith | |
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| Real Names: | Princess Claude Leith Bayard |
| Status: | Attraction |
| Relationship: |
Secret |
| Length of Relationship: |
Couple Weeks |
| Affiliates: | |
| First Appearance: | The Siege |
| GALLERY | |
Early life
Season 3
Leith began as Princess Claude's personal guard. A friendship soon developed between the two. After Leith and Lady Greer ended things for good, a secret romance blossomed between Leith and Princess Claude. Their relationship was an uphill battle, but Catherine Di Medici gave the couple her blessing to wed when Leith saved both Catherine and Claude from an assationation attempt. Leith gave her a ring, Claude bought a dress, but in the final episode of season 3 Leith went on a mission and was stabbed. His status was left a mystery.
Quotes
Princess Claude: I expect you’ll be wearing that when we play cards tonight. [1]
Leith Bayard: Why do you want to help me?
Princess Claude: Because your going to end up with someone. Why not someone a step above. But within reach? [2]
Leith Bayard: Sons of cobblers, doesn’t get to be with princesses. [3]
Leith Bayard: Marry me. [3]
Leith Bayard: One thing I will never do, is risk getting on Catherine de' Medici's bad side.
Princess Claude: You’d rather get on my bad side?!
Leith Bayard: A million times. yes. [4]
Princess Claude: I'm telling you, I know what I saw. The danger is not only outside our walls, it's inside as well. [5]
Princess Claude: I expect you’ll be wearing that when we play cards tonight. [1]
Leith Bayard: Why do you want to help me?
Princess Claude: Because you're going to end up with someone. Why not someone a step above. But within reach? [6]
Leith Bayard: Marry me. [7]
Princess Claude: If you go on this mission. I’ll stop loving you!
Leith Bayard: You can do that. Just like that?
Princess Claude: Yes. Ask anyone. I’m as fickle as they come.
Leith Bayard: I suppose that does change things. Before, I had reason to return home quickly and all in one piece. [8]
Leith Bayard: I wanted to hate Luc, but he's a good man. And he's your husband. I'm not. [9]
Leith Bayard: I feel a poison in my heart. How long until I give into it? [9]
Leith Bayard: We never got to see that vineyard in Tuscany.
Princess Claude: What if we met there? A year from tonight. Leith, in a year, everything will be different. I'll have an heir, I-I'll never have to be with Luc again.
Leith Bayard: Claude...
Princess Claude: I won’t fall in love with him. I promise!! Please have faith in me.
Leith Bayard: I'll try. [9]
Notes
- Leith is very well educated, a rare ability for the 16th century commoner. He can read, has bible verses memorized, and is able to give the history of Saint Michael during the The Michaelmas Banquette. [10]
- Leith's first kill was while the castle was held hostage by a group of Italian men.[11] Since then he has killed up to two dozen English soldiers while at war. [12]
- After Leith saved Francis's life, and once they get back at court, Francis gives Leith some titles and lands. It's not made clear how much, but Leith is now a noble.[13]
- Promoted to the new position of Captain of the Royal Escort and recieved his old lands back from Stéphane Narcisse who was charged with embezzlement. [14]
- They consumate their relationship, before Cluade finds out she's engaged to Duke Boinel. [15]
- Princess Claude officially married Duke Boinel, but it was annulled as it was never consummated, and due to his abusive behaviour. [7]
- Are unofficially engaged.[7]
Historical Notes
- Princess Claude is named after her paternal grandmother, Claude, Duchess of Brittany.
- Historically Claude is only 12 years old during this timeframe, but in the show is believed to be 15.
Appearances
| Season Two | ||||||||||
| The Plague | Drawn and Quartered | Coronation | The Lamb and the Slaughter | Blood for Blood | Three Queens | The Prince of the Blood | Terror of the Faithful | Acts of War | Mercy | Getaway |
| Banished | Sins of the Past | The End of Mourning | Forbidden | Tasting Revenge | Tempting Fate | Reversal of Fortune | Abandoned | Fugitive | The Siege | Burn |
| Season Three | ||||||||||
| Three Queens, Two Tigers | Betrothed | Extreme Measures | The Price | In a Clearing | Fight or Flight | The Hound and the Hare | Our Undoing | Wedlock | ||
| Bruises That Lie | Succession | No Way Out | Strange Bedfellows | To The Death | Safe Passage | Clans | Intruders | Spiders in a Jar | ||
References
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