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Pretty Princess Helen, who had been in varying stages of pregnancy and post-childbirth constantly over the last three years, wished she had as iconic a fashion sense as any of these women. Unfortunately, to protect her reputation, she was still in hiding - couldn't let people see her with baby weight, after all.
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"Fake news! Nobody calls their spouse by their first AND middle names!" exclaimed Pretty Princess Helen to her tragically-injured, obese courier, who had been afforded a lame mule to carry her news from the capital.
"Johanna, where's Viktor?" she then asked idly, before returning to her exercises - she hadn't become the pretty princess by eating and lying around all day, after all.
Work out, kids.
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Pretty Princess Helen, Canonism and the Alstreims' biggest fan, smiles in anticipation.
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Pretty Princess Helen, on vacation in New Esbec with much of her personal household, lounged with a Penton-Napier Publishing book upon a fainting-couch. Yet again, however, her childrens' wetnurse interrupted her reading - with an annoyed twitching of a brow, Helen shut her book and gazed condescendingly upon her.
"What is it?" she demanded, prompting the frightened, fat nurse to reply,
"It's the courier again, m'lady." Not one to correct commoners over the semantics of calling her a mere Lady, Helen gestured for him to be brought in.
Girthy was the best word with which to describe Tobias in polite circles, though most would call him wildly obese. Watching him all but pour sweat all over her new rugs, Helen sighed and took the newsletter from him.
Upon reading it, the pretty princess gasped, and, after ensuring a servant was sent to find her husband's hunting band and deliver the news, she fainted for effect.
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Pretty Princess Helen, on extended vacation in New Esbec, took a seat on a relatively comfortable wooden chair. Rays of dim sunlight illuminated the room as a maide brought her a cup of tea, and her quite wide wetnurse Johanna looked over her two young children in their cradles. As the princess stood and gazed out the window, perhaps looking for the silhouette of her husband, she saw another sight - her fat courier, Tobias, sprinting as fast as his stubby legs could take him towards her summer lodge.
Strange, Helen thought. He wasn't due for another three days, and really only ever ran so quickly when delivering Hearsay of Hanseti-Ruska to her. In his greasy, sweaty palms, instead, was an oilskin-wrapped parcel containing a dozen of the latest scandals surrounding the Othamans and her best friend, Anna Henrietta.
Pretty Princess Helen picked up her teacup, took a delicate sip, and, for effect, spit it out at her obese courier, who grinned from ear to ear in response.
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3 hours ago, MannyMannyManny said:
Year 25 of the Second Age
Pretty Princess Helen could not read this date, so refused to read the rest of the document.
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Just now, libbybelle said:
"Little goodie bags is a great idea, my good son! My fundraiser has made over a thousand mina so more and it still is growing." The Governess said with a incline of her head. "Oh, Helen! Come sit with us, your Imperial Highness!"
Helen moves to join, but is dragged off by Viktor before she can! ...She plans to return later, if possible.
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1 minute ago, MannyMannyManny said:
"Yes- Any help would do quite well! We must donate to our empire, resources, medicine, anything we can think of I suppose.." Wilhelm commented with a neat smile, bobbing his head along
Helen passed by the room on her way to her apartments, sighing that she was prior occupied...
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(Pretty) Princess Helen Antonia agrees with the response, ensuring her best friend Anna sees and sends it forward. At teatime, she talks about it to everyone - her husband, her other friends, his friends - regardless of how much she actually loves such announcements.
"We shall soon give them real casus bellis!" she'd comment to them!
In fact, her fat courier Tobias is even sent to send it outwards more!
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my spell will give me custody of the kids
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(Pretty) Princess Helen Antonia's clapping at the talent show was the greatest for Henry Penton. She tells her fat courier, Tobias, to ask Anna to invite him to their next tea session.
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(Pretty) Princess Helen of Crestfall once more met her fat courier boy, Tobias, behind the palace stables.
"Do you have it?" she asked, with a thin tremble to her voice, a silent tremor upon her worried, beautiful lips.
"The last supply in Providence," he replied, his jowl fat bouncing with greed.
He left six Marks richer that day, and she left with her guiltiest pleasure - another copy of Hearsay of Hanseti-Ruska.
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(Pretty) Princess Helen Antonia sat in a Providence cafe with a selection of her closest friends. As the springtime of youth flowered amongst the debutantes and young lords of the empire in the streets and palace grounds, she wisely quipped,
"Mortality makes us human. Greed makes them Dwarves."
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PROSPECTIVE MISTRESS FORM
IGN: edelos
Name: (Pretty) Princess Helen Antonia Ruthern nee Novellen
Age: 22
Place of residency: Augustine Palace, Providence
Bank account balance: 150 mina
Hobbies: Travelling, Drinking, Writing, Reading, Patronage of the Arts
One interesting fact about yourself: I'm married.
Why should Tatiana choose you?: No emotional commitment required.
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PROSPECTIVE BACHELOR FORMIGN: zombieman999
Name: John VIII
Age: 50 years young
Place of residency: 1 Augustine Place, Providence
Bank account balance: 89,000 mina
Hobbies: Knitting, Flower Watching
One interesting fact about yourself: I have the biggest dining room in Oren.
Why should Tatiana choose you?: I'm single and ready to mingle.
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Pretty Princess Helen nearly faints. Thank GOD, with GOD emphasized, that I did not find myself among that lot, she thought as she pondered how long she could stay sober.
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Helen worried for the relations between her two best friends, Anna Henrietta and Maisie, from afar. Sullenly, she drank tea alone that day.
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The wildly attractive (Princess) Helen Antonia smiled wryly as she watched the debut and following dance, disappearing from the sidelines near the end to have a bottle of Pruvian Port with the Governess.
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Princess Helen, that most faire of maidens, receives multiple letters inquiring about personal invites. Sighing, she mutters, "I'll do it myself."
Personal invitations from HIH, Princess Helen Antonia are sent to the following persons, their envelopes scented with Carrington Company perfume (not an ad);
Captain Caspian, for how could Helen forget her childhood savior? @Shmeepicus
Cardinal Robert Bourdon, whom she met once at a lesser ball; @Tiresiam
Elizaveta Ruthern, among her dearest childhood friends; @EmiliainWonderland
Her pet bear, Bearsby;
Her best friends, of course, in Anna Henrietta and Maisie - and a second invitation to Maisie, just to be certain; @libbybelle @zuziee
The young, prodigal Simon B., provider of all of Helen's cosmetics; @jcbeno
Her lunatic of a brother and his +1; @Nectorist
Her eldest sister and her husband; @VIROS
Simon Casimir Pruvia-Provins and his notorious brood; @MisterChenn @Fie
Her eldest brother and his new wife; @ErikAzog
And finally to her esteemed colleague, Mister Napier; @Hanrahan
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Princess Helen turned back to Maisie, pinching the older girl's cheek with a coy smile. Their moment, of course, was ended by the rushing in of maidservants, to help Helen dress in normal clothing once more. Soon the biweekly afternoon teatime shared by the two was brought out in earnest - this time, with exotic Sutican dessert cakes.
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The prettiest princess in Oren - perhaps, indeed, in all Almaris - stood before a tall, handsomely embellished vanity, staring at herself in a simple white dress. Her long-standing companions in Anna Henrietta and Maisie by her sides, the enchantingly beautiful lady let out a sigh.
"Let us hope the anxiety-biscuits do not alter my proportions too heavily, lest I fail to fit in the corset when the time comes," she commented, an impossibly pretty smile on her face.
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4 hours ago, libbybelle said:
Anna Henrietta frowns deeply- narrowing her eyes at the missive. She looked to her ward, Helen, before ranting.
”Debutants are banned and she is not a Countess- the marriage prevented the title from being placed on her. Also should she not be in the church?”
The Governess grumbled under her breath as she pinched the bridge of her nose. Thereafter returning to the private tea session with the pretty princess.
"How insidious!" the inordinately pretty Princess Helen responded. "But it is not good for your skin to take such petty attention-grabbing to heart, dear Anna - here, have some more Savoyard Delight."
At this, she clapped her hands, ordering a servant to bring in a silver platter positively covered in the sugar-covered, gelatinous trifles. "You too, Maisie," she said as she delicately took one, looking to the third girl at the table.
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The obscenely attractive Princess Helen lies among a field of wild poppies, basking in the summering sun.
"Dearest me, how the time flies," she says, after a while. "It is nearly time for afternoon tea!"
At this, she stands, pulling up too her companion in Anna Henrietta, and the two return to the picnic that had been so meticulously made by their servantry.
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On a fine, sunny day in Providence, the enchanting Princess Helen walks the grounds of the palace gardens.
"Look here! See you the peonies so finely colored? I should hope the handmaides pluck some, that they may be brought inside to adorn our halls," she quips to the not-quite-as-attractive, but still beautiful, Anna Henrietta.
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A Claim Rennounced
in Provinces and Territories
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Pretty Princess Helen agrees. To her various, generally obese, servants, she quips, "How glad I am that this has settled properly."