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❁  “Infant Princess Vivienna Adelaide” c. 1874 ❁

 

 

As the cloak of darkness took one day and continued it to another the nearly full term Queen Vivienne, who hadn’t been seen by the public in months due to her natal condition, returned to her room with much more difficulty than the nights before. She lay her head by her husband’s only for her slow descent into night’s sleep to be interrupted. The Queen was rushed to a separate room, along with her ladies-in-waiting as well as a few of the King’s advisors and the King himself. The birth of their, now, youngest child could not have come in a more untimely manner. 

 

After hours of waiting the night had become morning. The group had waited all through the night for the birth of the child and as the sun rose from the horizon the cries of the young princess rang out through the birthing chambers. The King’s advisors sat uneasily for the announcement of the sex, hoping for a second son to aid the first, though a thin layer of disappointment set in as a princess was announced rather than a prince. The King and Queen, however, seemed happy enough, a new addition to their family had been brought into Almaris after such a long wait. 

 

 

Subjects of the Royal Crown of Frederick I,

 We greet you all well. And whereas it hath pleased the goodness of Almighty God of His infinite mercy and grace to send unto us at this time the deliverance of a princess to the great joy and inward comfort of my Lord, us, and of all his good and loving subjects of this his realm, for which inestimable benevolence so shown unto us we have no little cause to give high thanks, laud and praise unto Him. Brought under the watchful eye of many at Castle Stassion. The 13th day of Owyn’s Flame, in the year 1874. She shall henceforth be known as Her Royal Highness, Princess Vivienna Adelaide of Oren, named both after her mother and great grandmother. Her Royal Highness will assume, upon her birth, lest other male sires of the wedlock betwixt Frederick the First, King of Oren, Forever August, and Vivienne, Queen of the Orenians be born, fifth in the royal line of succession.

 

 

 

HIS ROYAL MAJESTY, Frederick I, King of Oren, forever August, King of Renatus, Curon, Kaedrin, Salvus, and Seventis, Grand Duke of Ves, Duke of Helena, Novellen, Furnestock, Petra, Oltremont, South Arentania, and Lorraine, Baron of Renzfeld, Count of Mardon, Protector of the Heartlanders and Farfolk, etcetera

 

HER ROYAL MAJESTY, Vivienne of Savoy, Queen consort of Oren, forever August, Queen consort of Renatus, Curon, Kaedrin, Salvus, and Seventis, Grand Duchess consort of Ves, Duchess consort of Helena, Novellen, Furnestock, Petra, Oltremont, South Arentania, and Lorraine, Baroness consort of Renzfeld, Countess-consort of Mardon, Protector of the Heartlanders and Farfolk, etcetera.