 Despite being a commoner, she was the only one of Charles' wives that he actually loved.She is nicknamed "Marianne the Flash" for her piloting skills, having been the test pilot for the "Ganymede" Knightmare Frame with the support of the Ashford Foundation, which was then a contender in the development of the first Knightmare Frame prototypes.When Lelouch was a child, she was assassinated by a stream of bullets within the Aries Palace, purportedly by terrorists, and the culprits were never found; Nunnally was also paralyzed by the same bullets, and her and Lelouch's subsequent exile led the latter to assume that Charles was involved with the murder.