Talk:Henrietta Foredale/@comment-29959454-20180731160248/@comment-4786757-20180731192748

Or in this case, the MC is a bastard child because she's not part of the "traditional" family lineage. To explain it a bit more think of royalty. Sometimes kings would have  a queen as their wife who would give them airs to be in succession of the throne. But they weren't always the most faitful. So sometimes they had mistresses and out of those relationships resulted children. But to prevent  them from usurping the children from the king/queen relationships the kids borned from the  relationship with the mistress would be deemed ilegitimate. Does that make sense?