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Helpreally late, sorry, trying to catch up
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DKing: William Alberich Tiberius Lysander
DQueen: Josephine Elisabeth Penelope Clarissa
IllegitimateSon: Baron Geoffrey Amerigo Tybalt (from Tiberius)
DPrincess1: Lorelei Josephine Amaryllis
DPrince2: (deceased) Samson Alter Malachi
DPrincess3/DPrincess4: Arden Genevieve Therese and Tara Isodora Jessamine (both FN mean 'high', as in highborn)
From the Royal House of: Freykeep
In the Kingdom of: Solandra
The marriage was sudden, the product of a hasty peace treaty between the Kingdom of Solandra, from which the Queen hails, and the King's home, Valhurst. The marriage is one of duty, although the king and queen had a quite civil relationship before the war broke between their kingdoms. The hopes of peace between the kingdoms rest in the hands of their royalties, and if they can unite, the joint kingdom will be the most powerful ever known.
With the welcoming of the new Princess, the King and Queen share only a short-lived, though song-filled, joy. The news reaches the King not three weeks after young Lorelei is born that a brief relationship one summer with a minor Lady in the country has resulted in an illegitimate son. With the health of the boy's mother rapidly failing, King William feels it is his duty to honor her wishes and provide for her son, although he cannot bring himself to reveal Geoffrey's existence to anyone but his wife and closest advisors. Unfortunately, Queen Josephine does not take kindly the the idea of her young daughter, the legitimate heir to the throne, being usurped by a bastard son of her husband's. Torn between his wife's seething dislike and disgust and his ache for his own blood, King William resolves to take the young Baron Geoffrey into his palace, but merely under the pretense of a old friend of the dieing Lady, concealing his paternity from the boy. King William resolves, much to Queen Josephine's dislike, that the young baron will reside and grow-up in the royal household, and shall hold a place of honor there, affording him the best schooling and training in the kingdom. Although the existence of Geoffrey, and his connection to the King, remain a secret to most, his presence and the possibility that he may be in line to inherit the throne before Lorelei puts the Queen in a persistently bad mood, and the tentative and delicate peace between Solandra and Valhurst teeters once again on the brink of war.
King William is growing more and more distraught as he despairs of a male heir to the throne, and with his distress come both an emotional and political decline. Coupled with the Queen's ill health, the kingdom is growing weaker, and is drawing the unwanted attention of hitherto weaker nations. The king, despite his young wife's pleas, continues to attempt for a son, and expects Queen Josephine to comply with his wishes, although her trying pregnancies have made her not only weak, but disagreeable and stubborn. With rumblings that the king may legitimatize his illegitimate son to produce a male heir, the good queen has also become defensive of her daughters rights.
DQueen: Josephine Elisabeth Penelope Clarissa
IllegitimateSon: Baron Geoffrey Amerigo Tybalt (from Tiberius)
DPrincess1: Lorelei Josephine Amaryllis
DPrince2: (deceased) Samson Alter Malachi
DPrincess3/DPrincess4: Arden Genevieve Therese and Tara Isodora Jessamine (both FN mean 'high', as in highborn)
From the Royal House of: Freykeep
In the Kingdom of: Solandra
The marriage was sudden, the product of a hasty peace treaty between the Kingdom of Solandra, from which the Queen hails, and the King's home, Valhurst. The marriage is one of duty, although the king and queen had a quite civil relationship before the war broke between their kingdoms. The hopes of peace between the kingdoms rest in the hands of their royalties, and if they can unite, the joint kingdom will be the most powerful ever known.
With the welcoming of the new Princess, the King and Queen share only a short-lived, though song-filled, joy. The news reaches the King not three weeks after young Lorelei is born that a brief relationship one summer with a minor Lady in the country has resulted in an illegitimate son. With the health of the boy's mother rapidly failing, King William feels it is his duty to honor her wishes and provide for her son, although he cannot bring himself to reveal Geoffrey's existence to anyone but his wife and closest advisors. Unfortunately, Queen Josephine does not take kindly the the idea of her young daughter, the legitimate heir to the throne, being usurped by a bastard son of her husband's. Torn between his wife's seething dislike and disgust and his ache for his own blood, King William resolves to take the young Baron Geoffrey into his palace, but merely under the pretense of a old friend of the dieing Lady, concealing his paternity from the boy. King William resolves, much to Queen Josephine's dislike, that the young baron will reside and grow-up in the royal household, and shall hold a place of honor there, affording him the best schooling and training in the kingdom. Although the existence of Geoffrey, and his connection to the King, remain a secret to most, his presence and the possibility that he may be in line to inherit the throne before Lorelei puts the Queen in a persistently bad mood, and the tentative and delicate peace between Solandra and Valhurst teeters once again on the brink of war.
King William is growing more and more distraught as he despairs of a male heir to the throne, and with his distress come both an emotional and political decline. Coupled with the Queen's ill health, the kingdom is growing weaker, and is drawing the unwanted attention of hitherto weaker nations. The king, despite his young wife's pleas, continues to attempt for a son, and expects Queen Josephine to comply with his wishes, although her trying pregnancies have made her not only weak, but disagreeable and stubborn. With rumblings that the king may legitimatize his illegitimate son to produce a male heir, the good queen has also become defensive of her daughters rights.
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