 However, though formally the first lady of the emigree court, Marie Joséphine seem to have been eclipsed by the aristocratic female emigrees termed as the 'Queens of the Emigration', namely the Prince of Condés mistress the Princess of Monaco, her brother-in-law's mistress Louise de Polastron, and the mistress of her own husband, her lady-in-waiting Anne de Balbi, who was courted for her influence over Louis Stanislaus.Early on, Marie Joséphine prepared to separate from her husband and return to her birth country.Already in 25 July 1791 the Duke of Genevois wrote in his journal that she was coming home to the court of her father in Turin