Realizing they had to have heirs, Stephanie and the Duke got together…

.. to have 4, maybe 5 children.  The 2nd child died at birth, and stories of his being illegitimate persist to this day in forms of books, tales, and movies.

(portrait: a mature Stephanie of the 1820’s.. note the early Victorian fashion elements sneaking in to her late Regency gown.  It seems she almost “skipped” the Rococco influence of the late 1810’s.. or perhaps she was ahead of fashion all the time)