Queen Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

Jerome Bonaparte had married Elizabeth Patterson.
Emperor Napoleon I had issued decrees instructing the civil officers of the Empire not to take notice of the so-called marriage.

Suppose Napoleon welcomes Elizabeth. Jerome is still named as King of Westphalia. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte becomes the Queen Consort.
She and Jerome still have their son, Jerome Napoleon.
What happens then?
 
I wonder. Jerome's second wife OTL prevented Napoleon from nominating him as king of Spain (pretty sure they wouldn't have accepted a Protestant queen), narrowing that choice to between Joseph and Louis. Nap nominated Jerome as king of Westphalia due to his wife and her connections (mother was a Brunswick, stepmom was an English princess, aunt was the Russian czarina and had cousins amongst the Prussian and Danish royals). So, most likely Jerome either gets promoted to a very different sort of kingdom, or events transpire as OTL. Betsy has no pull in Germany, and when Nap arranged Jerome's marriage, it was one of four to bind the Bonapartes to the German states - Eugene's to a Bavarian princess and Stéphanie's to the Badener grand duke; a less important one was Antoinette Murat to the prince of SIgmaringen. Incidentally, Eugène and Stephanie's respective OTL spouses had previously been each other's engaged.
 
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