Lady Marguerite Sinclair

A living doll, everywhere you look.
It can sew, it can cook,
It can talk, talk, talk. . . .
My boy, it's your last resort.
Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.
- Sylvia Plath , The Applicant

Race	Mortal
Splat	Mundane
Title	Matriarch of the Sinclair Dynasty

Physical Description
The years have certainly been kind to lady Sinclair, her skin could sell all manner of skin creams and youth promising beauty products. Certainly over 50 the rest is unguessable from appearance and her mannerisms are too youthful to age her. An eternity of shopping with the young debutants of Gotham also ensures her clothes are this seasons de rigour and her conversation currant.

Personality
Her years have lent Marguerite an air of amusement and she has always had a mischievous nature, she is a gregarious and jolly woman. Her sphere of influence and power is unassailable and thus she has no need to been seen struggling in its upkeep, all that is done by subtlety and careful manipulation. She is the social backbone of Gotham's elite and even the vampires listen to her advice on etiquette and currant trends. In company Marguerite is flirtatious, fun loving and 'with it', every bit the twenties flapper of her youth.

Story
The Sinclair Dynasty are descended from the Scottish St Clair family and their History in America is old as the nation itself. The St Clair family have been the centre of Scottish freemasonry and a dominant force within the modern Templer's for centuries and much of their wealth and power comes from these connections. Marguerite was the daughter of the orders Grande Master and whomever she married was destined for greatness. Other women would have capitulated to male domination, and surely would not have been able to deny the requests of the order about her life, but this headstrong young woman had her own ideas. The secret influences of her Vampiric ancestor didn't hurt either. Lady Marguerite is the descendant, friend and agent of the Toreador Vampire Etienne St Clair.
Her first two marriages added furthur wealth to the family fortunes and by the time she married her third husband she was well respected enough to be allowed to choose her partner. Without a second thought she married Dr Richard Madston, the Chief Medical Officer of Gotham City.
While the men in the family are littered throughout the Cities prime positions of power, District attorneys, Surgeon generals, previous mayors, councillors, lawyers and doctors, the women dominate the social whirlpools. Lady Marguerite Sinclair is the most powerful woman in the drawing room circuit by dint of age, family and wit. Almost no merger of upper class families occurs without her hand in the matchmaking and the health of Gotham's businesses has as much to thank her for as it does the Vampires and the mortal magnates.