Alice FitzClarence

Lady Alice FitzClarence was a young woman born at the beginning of Queen’s Victorian reign. She was a lady by two royal bloodlines, but hated the idea of simply being a wife because of the fact she was a woman. She decided she didn’t want to get married to some Earl, so she dressed herself in the clothes of men and decided to run away becoming what she called a Victorian Adventuress.

Biography
Anne’s grandmother was the daughter of King George III, and her father was the illegeitimate heir of King William IV. Her place within the royal family was prominent before her birth in 1838. She had two younger siblings, and being the middle child was left mostly to her own devices. It was early on that she decided she would not simply sit around. When her brothers went out to play, Alice pleaded to do the same, but to no avail.

As she watched each of her sisters get married off one by one, she decided that she did not want that to happen to her. She went and told her father that she refused to simply get married. She wanted to go out into the world and seek fame and fortune in India. Her father told her that she needed to stop reading books. They were rotting her mind. When she told him she refused to marry anyone and be his wife, he slapped her. She had seen many women being slapped before, and although she was always there to help them, no one came to her aid believing she to be wrong.

Lord Henry found what he considered a suitable husband for his daughter. He arranged everything, but three days before the wedding, Lady Alice decided that she would definitely NOT go through with it. She found herself dressing in the clothes of a male pauper. She placed her hair up in a tight bun and hid it beneath a hat. She ‘muddied’ up her face and ran away from home. She found herself on the streets, and although she had stolen some money from her father, she kept this knowledge close to her chest quite literally. She didn’t want any thieves to steal her money. She found an adventure already on the streets of London.

Family

 * Lady Anne FitzRoy - Mother
 * Lord Henry FitzClarence - Father
 * Charles FitzClarence - Eldest Brother
 * William FitzClarence - Next Eldest Brother
 * Christine FitzClarence - Eldest Sister
 * Jane FitzClarence - Younger Sister

Personality
Alice, or Alan depending on who is talking to her, tends to find life too interesting to be locked up in a manor house. She believes that there is an adventure around every corner. She wants to go out into the world and see things, and that is single idea is what led her to run away from home. She hates the idea that women were simply to be wives, and refuses to believe that that is all they can do. She learned to wrestle and Fence from her brothers, and is quite smart even for a girl who has not really gone to school. She loves other people, and even within her first week on the street met several other street urchins to call her friends. She loves her new life, but feels slightly sad that she had to disobey her parents like she did.

Weapons and Personal Items
The only thing she really carries with her happens to be a locket of her mother. Her mother has been very sick throughout most of her life, but continues to struggle on even after having five children. Alice was close to her mother, moreso than her father, and wants to keep her always close.

Skills and abilities
She does not have many skills, although she is learning to pick pockets on the street. The skills she mostly has, and which the street urchins have already picked up about her, is the fact she can read and write and do simple mathematics.