Mod The Sims - Polstuart

Lady Mary Beckley was born the youngest surviving child of a well-to-do farmer high in the peaks of Derbyshire. The family had migrated south from Scotland to flee a Clan feud many years previously. They christened their new home Polstuart, a modest fortified manor house with moat and tower house. By the age of 13 Mary had outlived her older siblings and been married off to a local nobleman 37 years her senior. Still being a child the marriage was fraught with fear from her intimidating and domineering spouse. Fortunately the marriage only lasted a week before she had outlived him too. Being a woman meant that she couldn’t inherit her husband’s wealth and so it passed to her father whom she returned to live with at Polstuart. With his new found wealth Mary’s father sought to overhaul the manor and bring it into the 16th century. He started by toppling some of the outer walls into the moat to make it less of a castle and more of a modern dwelling. Although he didn’t live to see much more than the site cleared, leaving behind just the tower and the attached stable block before meeting an untimely death.
His grand ambitions for his daughter were much more fortunate, prior to his death he married her off again at the age of 16 to a wealthy land owner with a title and French heritage. To Mary’s new husband she bore two healthy daughters. In return, he modernised the remaining parts of her old house for her mother to live out the rest of her years in relative comfort. He then proceeded to meet an untimely death and Mary was forced into marrying his cousin.
Initially she was able to return to Polstuart and so she took to renovating the old manor with a dramatic extension which transformed it into an ornate Elizabethan mansion. To her third husband she bore a healthy son. But upon his birth she was then forced to move to France to reside with her husband in his ancestral home in Normandy and leave behind her daughters to be raised by her mother at Polstuart. Life in France was very cruel to Mary, she was an outsider and constantly at odds with her French in-laws. Their château was far grander than anything she had ever known and was thoroughly modern with its painted and gilded panelling. She adored the light blue panelling in her boudoir and would spend hours in there admiring it whilst also avoiding the prying eyes and poisonous tongue of her mother-in-law. Their wealth seemed almost infinite as her husband’s influence at court grew, although his greed and power ending up being his downfall when he was murdered by a courtesan. This then plunged the family into turmoil as his younger brother sought the take the title and family fortune out from under his nephew who was now next in line. This placed Mary and her young son in a very sordid household, she feared that her son would be murdered and so she fled back to England with little more than her son, a handful of personal possessions and the panelling from her boudoir. Leaving her brother-in-law to inherit the estate take his brother’s place at court, under the watchful eye of his tyrannical mother.
Once back in England, she raced up through the countryside until she was safely within the loving embrace of her aged mother and daughters. With her family reunited she embarked on a final renovation of Polstuart to breathe a little French glamour into it. Her new Jacobean style extension engulfed the old tower house and stable block and added a long gallery and ballroom in which she housed her beloved boudoir panelling.
The house stayed in the family for many generations before passing out of it during the late 18th century. It then suffered a period of neglect and financial disarray which left it unloved but also unscathed by white paint.
Then in the late Victorian era the family returned and ‘restored’ their ailing ancestral home. During this renovation the Great Hall was altered dramatically with the addition of a new Grand Staircase, relegating the original Elizabethan Grand Staircase to a Servants’ Staircase or Back Stairs. The gardens were also overhauled in the fashionable Arts and Crafts style, instating fashionable Elizabethan style Parterres wherever possible.

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