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DKing: William Alberich Tiberius Lysander
DQueen: Josephine Elisabeth Penelope Clarissa(deceased)
DQueen2: Baroness Evangeline Avalon Moira Odette (Eve)
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)
DPrince5: Elijah Joseph Dudley (Elijah from Elizabeth, Joseph from Josephine, and Dudley from Clarissa, a derivative of Clara, meaning 'clear', as Dudley means)
DPrince6/DPrincess7: James Peregrine Astaroth
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.
The King's second marriage is one of convenience, albeit general affection. King William grew up with Baroness Evangeline, and her brother, Baron Eben Winston Isaiah, has been a close confidante of the King for many years. Widely respected by the nobility, gentry, and plebeians of Solandra, the match was a prudent, though hasty affair. The children are not pleased that their father has made such a hasty union so soon after the passing of their mother, and the younger ones even talk of running away, but their father is the king, and all understand that his rule is to be abided by, even by his own children. The young Baron son does not approve of the new queen, as she is of no high rank than himself, but he still has not been informed that King is his father, and not just a kind benefactor and old friend to his now deceased mother.
The King, to preserve his honor and rule, staunchly denies the rumors, although within a private conversation, Evangeline neither accepts nor denies the allegations, leading to a severe beating (after she has given birth of course). The Queen is of course mortified, but dares not give the King an answer, for she must not lie, but cannot tell him the truth (ooooo, mysterious...). Trusting of their kind, though recently distraught king, most of the kingdom accepts his reproof of the rumors, and passes it off as coincidence, or design ;}, but there are still some rumors circulating among the border people, who are most disillusioned with the King due to frequent, though minor, raids from neighboring kingdoms.
DQueen: Josephine Elisabeth Penelope Clarissa(deceased)
DQueen2: Baroness Evangeline Avalon Moira Odette (Eve)
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)
DPrince5: Elijah Joseph Dudley (Elijah from Elizabeth, Joseph from Josephine, and Dudley from Clarissa, a derivative of Clara, meaning 'clear', as Dudley means)
DPrince6/DPrincess7: James Peregrine Astaroth
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.
The King's second marriage is one of convenience, albeit general affection. King William grew up with Baroness Evangeline, and her brother, Baron Eben Winston Isaiah, has been a close confidante of the King for many years. Widely respected by the nobility, gentry, and plebeians of Solandra, the match was a prudent, though hasty affair. The children are not pleased that their father has made such a hasty union so soon after the passing of their mother, and the younger ones even talk of running away, but their father is the king, and all understand that his rule is to be abided by, even by his own children. The young Baron son does not approve of the new queen, as she is of no high rank than himself, but he still has not been informed that King is his father, and not just a kind benefactor and old friend to his now deceased mother.
The King, to preserve his honor and rule, staunchly denies the rumors, although within a private conversation, Evangeline neither accepts nor denies the allegations, leading to a severe beating (after she has given birth of course). The Queen is of course mortified, but dares not give the King an answer, for she must not lie, but cannot tell him the truth (ooooo, mysterious...). Trusting of their kind, though recently distraught king, most of the kingdom accepts his reproof of the rumors, and passes it off as coincidence, or design ;}, but there are still some rumors circulating among the border people, who are most disillusioned with the King due to frequent, though minor, raids from neighboring kingdoms.
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