… Empress Josephine of France. Caroline was Napoleon I’s little sister, who fell in love with one of her brothers offices. In exchange for Napoleon’s permission to marry a man without helpful political liasons, Napoleon set her up and moved them far away.
Caroline did not get along with Josephine (two fashionable women in the same room just doesn’t work well), so she influenced Napoleon to have mistresses, and eventually forced his divorce and remarriage to Marie Louise.
(Left: Caroline’s real dress of 1899; Right Caroline in about 1801 in full court dress – as full a dress as Regency could get. We don’t think the gold will keep her warm though)