Hortense de Beauharnais Was the step daughter of Napoleon I, mother of Napoleon III and wife of Louis Bonaparte king of Holland.
In 1811 she became pregnant with the child of her lover, an officer of the grand army, luckily for her only her brother, mother and close companions knew of the pregnancy which she managed to hide for 6 months, even at Napoleon II christening were she was a god mother, before going to Switzerland for the last 3 months citing an illness while she gave birth.
So WI her pregnancy became public knowledge how would this effect things?