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King: (Don) Daniel Gaston Cristiano Hermes de Ramal y Alilandano (24)
Queen: (Doña) Ivette Jovita Nieves Estefania de Goya y Llobregat (23)
-DPrincess1: (Infanta) Alejandra Carmen Pilar Serafina de Ramal y de Goya (6)
-DPrincess2: (Infanta) Paulina Cristina Marisol Rosita de Ramal y de Goya (4)
-DPrincess3/DPrince1: (Infanta) Victoria Adriana Dolores Evita de Ramal y de Goya / (Principe) Rodrigo Guadalupe Andres Santiago de Ramal y de Goya (1)
-DAdopted4: (Duque) Nicolas Jean-Marie Louis Yves de Chagny (1)

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From the most noble house of Ramal,
In the mighty Kingdom of Solandra.

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Shortly after Infanta Lolita and Infante Lupito recovered from their early birth, a messenger arrived in Solandra with sad news. A cousin of Dani's, Luisa, had recently died of an illness, leaving her months-old son orphaned (her husband Jean de Chagny had died in an accident prior to the boy's birth). Dani was quite grieved with the loss of his cousin and childhood companion, but was surprised to hear that along with the messenger, the orphaned boy was also brought! It appears that in her last wishes, Luisa (or Louise de Chagny, as she is now known as) has asked for her son to be brought to her cousin, the king of Solandra, and to be found a place to live. Moved with compassion for the boy, Dani discussed with Ivette what to do, and before long, the boy was adopted into the royal family.

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The adopted boy's name was confirmed to be Nicolas Jean-Marie Louis Yves de Chagny, or Duque (duke) Nicolas. Nicolas was a name that he was already given at the time Luisa's messenger brought him to Solandra, Jean-Marie was a double name to honour the late Jean de Chagny and the house of Ramal's tradition of naming Marian names to their offspring, Louis was added to honour the child's mother, and Yves was placed in according to Dani's request to honour his own wife Ivette. Dani and Ivette seemed to dote upon the boy as much as their own, raising him along with Lolita and the Crown Prince Lupito. Carmen was especially delighted to have another hermanito, and Cristina, while a bit more wary with the presence of a stranger in her house, began to like little Nicolas more and more.

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However, not everyone in Solandra shared the royal family's feelings for Nicolas. Factions arose that demanded that the child not be given the surname "de Ramal" (signifying him as a proper member of the royal family), since doing so will name him second in line should anything happen to Lupito. As much as Dani wished he could do otherwise, he realised it will be unwise to name the son of his cousin so close to the line of succession, and agreed to let Nicolas keep his actual surname of de Chagny, and his rank in the royal family as a Duque instead of an Infante.