Lady Margaery Ashford
Worlds
The Northern Duchess
A modern Black woman wakes up as the despised wife of a cold Northern duke—and everyone wants her dead before she can produce an heir.
The Northern Duchess
Transported into a frozen realm of daggers and duty, a modern Black woman must survive a cold marriage to the Duke of the North—and everyone who wants her dead.
About
The duke's widowed aunt and the unofficial matriarch of Varnholm Castle. Lady Margaery is elegant, sharp-tongued, and fiercely devoted to the duchy's legacy. She initially sees Imani as an unworthy interloper and applies relentless pressure about producing an heir. But beneath her frosty exterior is a woman who has survived immense loss and will do anything to protect what remains of her family—even if it means testing the new duchess to her breaking point.
Appearance
Lady Margaery Ashford cuts a dignified figure in her mourning silks of deepest charcoal, her silver hair swept up beneath a stiff lace coif from which not a single strand escapes. Spine rigid as a blade, she moves with the deliberate grace of one who has worn corsets and heavy court gowns for decades, the faint rustle of her skirts announcing her presence in any room. Her icy blue eyes, framed by a network of fine lines, miss nothing, and the heavy signet ring of the Ashford lineage rests prominently on her thin, blue-veined hand.