Dossier
Lady Louise Hampton
- Species
- Beaver
- Title
- Lady
- Domain
- Americas
- Origin
- Ottawa, Canada
Biography
Lady Louise Hampton, forty-seven years of age, is a beaver of picture-perfect prettiness, ever composed beneath her lacy bonnet, with a warmth to her that no amount of Wovrn society polish has managed to dim. Born in Canada, she is married to Lord Douglas Hampton, and has built her life around hearth, home, and the children of Wovrn who have neither. To the wider world, Lady Louise is the beating heart of the season's charitable calendar, the soft-spoken hostess whose ballrooms exist chiefly to fund orphanages rather than reputations.
Personality
A devoted homemaker at heart, Lady Louise finds her truest purpose not in the ballroom but in the causes she runs from it, above all her tireless work for children from poor backgrounds. She is polite, soft-spoken, and quietly confident, marked by Tourette's syndrome, which sees the occasional sharp "Poppycock!", "Whaaaat!", or even a startled "Bad boy!" slip out at the most unexpected moments, a habit she has long since stopped apologising for. She can be gullible, taking people at their word rather more readily than society thinks wise, though anyone who has mistaken that kindness for weakness has swiftly learned the reach of her marriage and her connections. Above all, she wants Wovrn's poorest children fed, warmly clothed, and given a soft place to lay their heads, a mission that draws her, whenever her calendar allows it, to her local orphanage to read the little ones to sleep herself. Her deepest fear is simple and unresolved: that she will never manage to reach every unwanted child in Wovrn.
Secret
What the registry does not record: Lady Louise quietly directs a tenth of her husband's earnings toward her philanthropy, a fact she has never once mentioned to him.
Relationships
Married to: Lord Douglas Hampton.