After the departure of Alençon, the situation of Margaret deteriorated. One of her lady-in-waiting, Françoise de Montmorency-Fosseux a 14-year-old girl, known as "La Belle Fosseuse", was conducting a passionate affair with the King of Navarre and became pregnant. Margaret proposed banishing her rival from court, but "La Belle Fosseuse" screamed that she would refuse to cooperate. She never ceased to incite Henry against his wife, hoping perhaps to be married to him. "From that moment until the hour of mistress's delivery, which was a few months after, husband never spoke to me. [...] We slept in separate beds in the same chamber, and had done so for some time", remembered Margaret.