Fan Casting Alice of Courtenay in Robin Hood and the House of Plantagenet (TV-Series)

The ambitious mother of Isabella of Angoulême and a shrewd strategist of the French borderlands. As a member of the Capetian royal house and a cousin of King Philip II of France, she views her daughter not as a child, but as a masterpiece of political engineering designed to infiltrate the Plantagenet line. Alice is the primary architect of Isabella’s "seductress" training, meticulously polishing her daughter’s beauty and wit to serve as a high-stakes lure for Prince John. She operates with a cold, transactional mindset, determined to use Isabella to elevate her family from regional counts to the literal power behind the English throne.