Lady Alice Chastain

Alice: "The best way to conceal is to hide in plain sight. What is more plain for a woman than marriage?"

––Alice speaking to her daughter, 1868

Duchess Alice Elizabeth Chastain (neé Caulfield) (1829 – unknown) was a wealthy noble British woman and the Duchess of Dauphiné, France via her marriage to Duke Raphael Chastain, whom she was wed to at nineteen. Alice's marriage to the Duke was arranged by her mother and father, making her a very unhappy woman who, in secret, heavily resented her husband. Within her marriage, Alice and Raphael had their daughter, Marie Chastain, in which Alice's resentment turned to her daughter; the product of an unhappy arranged marriage.