[OP: ]
"I've not stopped him! I've never stopped him from going anywhere! He did not want the life of a prince so I let him go! I let him go into the world and do what he loved! I was happy for him! Every time he did something incredible, every time we spoke, every time he wrote to me…
You know how happy I am every time it's about him, don't you? Then, shouldn't he at least have told us about it?! Don't we at least deserve to know what my child has been up to?!"
She was old and mature enough to understand what goes on in the head of her child. She knew him the best just like how she knew Claud, her other son.
She cared about both of her boys tremendously. There was never a moment she would resent them for what they were doing, or be angry at the paths that they had chosen.
She was always there for them. She looked after them when she needed to and she gave them the freedom that they desired.
