Hi. So, after a few days of thinking (and a draft I lost because I was down with the side effects of both my third COVID shot and a Flu shot for a time long enough for the draft to seemingly auto-delete), I decided to go with what I was thinking about for a while now and post the final installment in the Imperial Kingdoms trilogy without the infoboxes and pages on all monarchs directly descended from Empress Jessamine, so I can finally see myself move forward in my writings on this TL.
I'm gonna try and add them when I do an update on the "heirs" of the Albish Empire (meaning the children and descendants of Empress Charlotte), but, until then, they're not gonna be on this update (although since I'm keeping their family trees in the update there will be some information about them, and, to anyone interested, you all are completely free to ask questions about anything in relation to the trees and the monarchs, just because I can't at the moment put together a "wikipedia page" for them, I'm completely open to answering any questions about them)
Finally, I'd just like to say, Rest in Peace Betty White, you were amazing.
Victoria II of Sierra Leone, although having her appearance based on Betty, isn't dead ITTL even as of the TL's 2022. Also, I'm going to add that although Victoria is her visual clone, BW does have a personal equivalent ITTL (which I'm going to consider different from a "look-alike" like Victoria II), that equivalent is:
Marion Horatia White (1922-2015), a Californian general and war hero during WWII, she later became the 55th United States President (as California considers itself the US' direct continuation), although de facto she was California's 23rd President.
The Imperial Kingdoms, of the Creation of Empress Jessamine
Although by no means the longest in Albish history, between the creation of the 14th and 15th imperial kingdoms, there was a hiatus of 8 years, 11 months, and 11 days, during which the majority of the Second World War, as well as the death of Emperor Leonard and ascension of Empress Jessamine to the throne, occurred.
Due to possessing the second-longest reign in Albish history, Empress Jessamine is the Albish monarch with the highest number of enthronements under her name after Empress Victoria, with a total of eight imperial kingdoms being created during her decades on the throne. Uniquely to her, the enthronements during the empress reign saw a certain generational nature to them, with most of the imperial kingdoms created during Empress Jessamine's reign being done so either rather close to eachother or with decades between them, with the 16th and 17th kingdoms being created both on 1962 (and the 15th in 1961) while there was a gap of nearly 17 years between the 17th and 18th (with another of 22 years between the 20th and 21st).
Due in great part to the untimely death of Emperor Leonard, as well as some personal actions during the Second World War, Empress Jessamine's reign saw the first, second and, as of 2020, last, time an Albish monarch enthroned their siblings as monarchs of an imperial kingdom, with them all being in the span of the years of 1961 and 1962.
Empress Jessamine also was the only Albish monarch to posthumously enthrone someone, as, although she made all preparations beforehand, the empress died before the enthronement of Queen Agnes of Belize was made official, with the fact that it was the empress untimely death that stopped her from doing it being the reason why, although it was during the short reign of Empress Eleanor, the creation of Belize as an imperial kingdom is considered as being by Empress Jessamine.
Although not about the creation of imperial kingdoms, but directly in connection, it was also during the reign of Empress Jessamine that Oregon stopped being considered one and became a member-state of The Commonwealth. It was also during her reign, in its early years, that the Cockatrice Throne of New Dheli separated itself from the Imperial Throne in London, when her eldest younger sister, Euphemia, in following with decisions made in the aftermath of the Second Mutiny, was given the direct rule over the colonial territories in Bharat, in what was de facto a new and eccentric type of imperial kingdom.
And while not imperial kingdoms, it was also during the reign of Empress Jessamine that two other types of autonomous (or semi-autonomous) parts of Albion came into being, with the establishment of the few princely states directly under London and the creation of four of the five "imperial pseudo-kingdoms", territories directly under London that, while not de jure so, are de facto their own petty kingdoms of branches of the Imperial Family.
THE MARIANAS (Reino Unido de las Islas Marianas)
Officially the United Kingdom of the Mariana Islands
Capital in the Royal Town of Agaña, which has a population of 5.6 thousand inhabitants. The kingdom’s largest city is Saipán, with a population of 47 thousand inhabitants
The kingdom has English, Spanish and Chamorro as its official languages, it also recognizes Tanapag[1], Carolinian, Palauan, Japanese, Cantonese, Korean, Malay, French and Tagalog as national minority languages
The kingdom has a total population of 225 thousand inhabitants, which are divided among a great variety of ethnic groups due in great part to immigration during the 19th and 20th centuries. The largest groups of the kingdom, who together make about 50% of the total population, are the Chamorro[2], the Marianans[3] and the Whites[4], while the remaining half are made of a wide mix of other Oceanian peoples (like Palauans and Carolinians) and people descended from non-European immigrants, mainly Japanese[5], Cantonese and Korean. The kingdom is a majority Christian state, with Roman Catholics making around 70% of the population, while Protestants and Buddhists make the largest religious minorities (at 15% and 6%), with the remaining percentage being made by believers of Native Religions, other Christian sects, Islam, Shintoism and Daoism
The Marianas are a constitutional absolute monarchy in the most traditional sense of the word, with the monarch holding power over the entirety of the kingdom’s government and having the Parliament of the Islands and the High Court of Agaña as subservient and often only-advisory organs in their administration
The Marianas were established on May 13th, 1961, as the fifteenth imperial kingdom, being the first to be created by Empress Jessamine. Its first monarch, the fourth son of Emperor Leonard, was beforehand the Duke of Sussex, having been created as such in 1955, and the Governor of the Marianas, having been appointed in 1958
The Marianas are marked for being the imperial kingdom with the shortest span of time between its territorial acquisition by Albion and its establishment, as the Mariana Islands were only officially taken from Spain in 1958
The Monarchs’ List
1961-2013: Vincent (b.1931:d.2013), born
Prince George Vincent of Wales
2013-2015: Henry IX (b.1956:d.2015), assassinated[6]
2015: Elizabeth II (b.1974:d.2015), ruled from January to June
2015: Mary III (b.1974:d.2015), daughter of Henry IX, ruled from June to September, deposed[7]
2015-2018: Richard IV (b.1975:d.2018), son of Henry IX, assassinated[8]
2018-2019: Henry X (b.1977), son of Henry IX, abdicated, currently
The Prince-Abbot of Zarpana[9]
2019-: Anne II (b.1979), daughter of Henry IX
Heir apparent: Vincent,
Crown Prince of the Marianas,
Grand Duke of Saipán (b.2013) son of Anne II
2. Princess Maud of the Marianas,
Duchess of Rota (b.2015) daughter of Anne II
3. Prince Victor of the Marianas,
Duke of Tinian (b.2016) son of Anne II
4. Princess Evangeline of the Marianas,
Countess of Tanapag (b.2001) legitimized daughter of Anne II
5. Prince Michael of the Marianas,
Duke of Farallon (b.2001) son of Vincent[10]
[1] A Micronesian language descended from Chuukic, spoken in a single settlement in the island of Saipan, it is the only “protected language” of the Marianas, as it was almost always under the danger of getting extinct over the 20th century
[2] The indigenous people of the Mariana Islands
[3] The multiracial parts of the population descended from the Spanish, mainly with Chamorro or Philippine ancestry
[4] Mainly the descendants of the Albish, French and American immigrants from the 19th and 20th centuries
[5] Coming mostly from the western islands of Japan
[6] Poisoned at breakfast (possibly) by his own daughter and heir
[7] And later assassinated in her sleep
[8] Probably on the orders of his younger brother and successor (who has shown himself to be quite ruthless for a monk)
[9] Henry X only ruled long enough to be certain that his sister’s succession would be a smooth one, and then proceeded to abdicate and return to his previous position as the Prince-Abbot, which he has held since his early 30s (after becoming a monk when he was 27)
[10] Vincent of the Marianas loses to few other rulers of imperial kingdoms in relation to his marriages and offspring, marrying five times (and doing so in special in his later years) and having in total 17 legitimate children (and many more illegitimate ones)
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Anne II (Anne Caroline Girmhilde Sophia) is the seventh and current monarch of the Marianas, being their third reigning queen and the one among the current monarchs of imperial kingdoms to have most recently ascended to their throne (as of 2020).
Born to the Marianas Branch of the Windsor Dynasty, as the third daughter and youngest child of the Grand Duke of Saipán, the future Henry IX of the Marianas, and Marion FitzArthur-Windsor (of the Earls of Chesterfield), Anne II was, at birth, the eight in line to the thrones of the Marianas, coming after her father and siblings, and remainder on said position until King Vincent of the Marianas’ death in 2013. In 1997, at the age of 18, she was made “Countess of Tanapag” by her grandfather.
The youngest of her parents’ seven surviving children, Anne II was in no way expected to inherit the throne of the Marianas for much of her life, and during her youth became known for her involvement with motorcycle racing, although an unfortunate accident caused her retirement in 2001, as well as for entering the world of writing, becoming a novelist of reasonable renown during her 20s.
After five years together, Anne II had the plans for marrying her then boyfriend, the late James Santana-Ross, in 2002, and was pregnant when he died in a crash while racing, giving birth a few months later to the current Countess of Tanapag. Not in a scandal but grief-stricken, Anne II was convinced by her parents to leave the Marianas for a few years in the hopes of letting her go through mourning more easily, and moved to Colombia in 2003. Living on the country until 2009, during that time Anne entered a relationship with Sebastian Aquillar Escobar (the younger son of Chancellor Emilia Escobar), whom she met at a bar in Cali in 2005, and came back with him upon returning to the Marianas. In 2010 the two married, and have three children together.
Still a relatively minor royal upon her return, Anne became something of an underrated social darling in the Marianas during the early 2010s, in great part due to being the only one of her siblings to have a happy relationship and being the first among them to have children. Nonetheless, Anne II chose to remain uninvolved in the growing intrigues and tensions of the kingdom’s court, turning a blind eye while her siblings went for the other’s throats. In 2015 the then countess was in Hong Kong during most of the year’s chaos, returning in December of that year when her eldest brother had already begun his reign.
Not targeted by her brother during his time on the throne, Anne II remained on the sidelines publicly during that time, although, as Richard IV became increasingly paranoid and his mental faculties deteriorated, she was behind the scenes one of the main plotters behind the 2018 coup. Upon Henry X’s ascension, as a self-called “transitional king”, and her own rising to heir presumptive, Anne II became First Minister of the Marianas, a position she held until her ascension upon his abdication, in August 22nd, 2019.
Crowned three days later, Anne II hasn’t had (as of 2020) much time to show her “personality” as a ruler, and has mainly shown herself to be focused on bringing back stability in the kingdom, as well as investing in its dwindling tourism sector
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KIRIBATI
Officially the Kingdom of Kiribati of the Gilbert and Phoenix Islands
Capital in the City of Tarawa, also the kingdom’s largest city, with a population of 65 thousand inhabitants
The kingdom has English and Gilbertese (or Kiribati) as its official languages
The kingdom has a population of 112 thousand inhabitants. Of them a majority, at 96% of the population, are native Gilbertese (or I-Kiribati), with the other 4% being mostly Whites and Mixed-Race individuals descended from Albish immigrants; the population is overwhelmingly Christian, with 57% being Catholic and 40% Protestant[2], while the largest religious minority is the Baha’i Faith, whose followers make nearly 2% of the population
Kiribati is a semi-federative and constitutional absolute monarchy, with its monarch holding an overwhelming majority of control over all branches of government while, due to the spread-out nature of its territory, the kingdom’s local administrations are semi-autonomous from the central one
Kiribati was established on June 3rd, 1962, as the sixteenth imperial kingdom. Its first monarch, the sixth and youngest son of Emperor Leonard, never held a royal dukedom before his enthronement, and had been in a common law marriage since 1954
Kiribati possesses a single princely state within its territory, the High Chiefdom of Abemama, Aranuka and Kuria, who became an Albish protectorate during the 1890s and was later entered colonial Kiribati as a princely state
Kiribati is the most recently established imperial kingdom to not be under its first monarch
The Monarch, her Father and Her Offspring
1962-1965: James VIII (b.1937:d.1965) born
Prince James Godfrey of Wales
1965-: Hermione (b.1957) born
Lady Hermione Elizabeth Marion FitzJames, “legitimized" in 1962[2]
Her husband, Prince Daniel of Orkney and of Hesse and by Rhine (b.1949)
1) Crown Princess Winifred Charlotte of Kiribati,
Princess of Rawaki (b.1982) m. Prince Sakuhito Katsura of Japan (b.1982)
1) Prince Adele of Rawaki, Duke of Kanton (b.2002) m. Princess Magdalene of Abemama (b.1997)
2) Prince John of Rawaki, Duke of Nikumaroro (b.2005)
3) Princess Georgiana of Rawaki, Duchess of Orona (b.2007)
2) Princess Theodora of Kiribati,
Princess of Butaritari (b.1982) m. Prince Sebastian of Abemama (b.1979)
1) Princess Yolanda of Butaritari, Countess of Tikurere (b.2003)
[1] Mostly Anglicans, with the remainder being mainly Seventh-day Adventists and Kiribati’s own branch of the Mormons
[2] Hermione’s parents were on a common-law marriage since 1954, but hadn’t ever actually gotten officially married by the time of his enthronement, with her being “legitimized” when they officially tied the knot shortly after James VIII’s enthronement
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Hermione (Hermione Elizabeth Marion; born in 5 May 1957) is the second and current monarch of Kiribati, being the kingdom’s only reigning queen and by far its longest-reigning monarch.
Born Hermione FitzJames, the daughter of the then Prince James of Albion and his common-law wife, Margaret Henfield, Hermione of Kiribati was, until the age of 5, officially illegitimate. Growing-up at Frogmore Cottage, Windsor, Hermione lived in the Home Islands until 1962, when James VIII was enthroned the monarch of Kiribati and her family moved there. A “royal bastard” for a few months until her parents’ marriage and her immediate legitimization, Hermione became heiress apparent at the age of 6.
Heiress apparent for only two years, Hermione became queen at the age of 8, when her father died from consumption. A child upon her ascension, the queen was under the regency of her uncle, and unofficial second parent[1], Reginald Henfield, First Minister since 1962 and Governor of the Gilbert Islands from 1960 to 1962.
Reaching majority in 1975, Hermione chose to extend her uncle’s regency for another seven years instead of immediately assuming the reins of government, going to the Home Islands to study at St. Andrews, leaving with a Master of Arts in Economics, and then entering Columbia University, where she left with a Bachelor of Science in Geography and Geology. During her time in Long Island, Hermione became known as a gregarious but study-focused person, who appeared only in main social events and some minor other occurrences[2].
It was during her years in university that Hermione of Kiribati met and married her consort, at the time of their first encounter a distant cousin eight years her senior, in leave from the Royal Navy to gain a degree in applied sciences. Meeting in 1980, the royal couple entered a relationship at the end of that year, and, after accidentally getting pregnant, the year after, having their twin daughters, princesses Winifred and Theodora, in early 1982.
Finishing her studies in 1982 itself, Hermione of Kiribati finally assumed full royal authority a year later, finishing her 18-years-long regency, although First Minister Henfield remained on that office until 1985, when he retired after over two decades as the partial or sole ruler of the kingdom.
Assuming power in 1975, as previously mentioned, Hermione reign began with the creation of the “Insular Maintenance Bureau” due to her education in geology, with the government division being responsible for safeguarding the stability and existence of the islands of Kiribati from erosion, soil liquefaction and sea-level rises above all else, a mission that expanded to the ecology of the islands in the 1990s after the Banaba Disaster. One of the queen’s most famous projects connected to the bureau is the Tarawa Seawall, considered one of the “Nine Wonders of Engineering”, whose building was finished on her Coral Jubilee.
Outside of nature-caused infrastructure projects, the queen also enacted a variety of social-based projects over the years, her most famous ones being the building of desalination plants on all inhabited islands, as Kiribati has a major lack of access to natural drinking water[3]; the introduction of government-backed sea farming, to diminish the need for imported foodstuffs; and the more recent investments in the building of artificial “islands” due to population growth.
Called “a considerate and agreeable woman” by a newsletter in her youth, the queen is known for being charming and easygoing, and outside of her projects she has mainly focused her reign on the matters of Kiribati’s economy and prosperity, being sometimes called the “backbone of tourism” on the kingdom due to her endeavors not only to establish it but also as the
de facto poster-woman for the industry, which stands with fishing and fish-farming as the major sources of Kiribati’s economy.
A self-proclaimed “passable politician”, the queen has often delegated that side of ruling to either her husband or her children, with Crown Princess Winifred in particular being often called the “eminence in shadow” of Kiribati. In relation to her family, Hermione is known for seemingly being “always on the honeymoon phase” in her marriage but having a relatively more strained relationship with her daughters, in that case due to having, in special in their youth, a rather strong “mother-hen syndrome”[4]
[1] James VIII made a rather poor effort while he was alive of hiding the fact that he was in a relationship with both Henfield siblings, actually beginning said relationship with Reginald before being acquainted with Margaret through her brother
[2] Hermione of Kiribati did cause a bit of a fuss when she entered and won an eating competition, and following that became a semi-recurrent appearance in the “circuits” of the sport in Long Island (when asked how she never gained weight in that process, the queen admitted to having an “unnaturally fast” metabolism)
[3] With Kiribati making a small amount of money from the selling of the brine produced by desalination projects, as it is considerably less contaminated than most wastewater brine
[4] Used in Albion mainly to refer to nigh-suffocating overprotective parents
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SEYCHELLES (Royaume des Îles des Seychelles)
Officially the Kingdom of the Islands of Seychelles
Capital in the Port of Victoria, also the kingdom’s largest city, with a population of 35 thousand inhabitants
The kingdom has English, French and Kreol[1] as its official languages
The kingdom has a population of 135 thousand inhabitants. Of them, the majority (at around 88%) are Seychellois Creoles[2], while the remaining population is mainly divided among those of British[3], French[4], Chinese[5] and Bharati[6] ancestry. The kingdom is majority Christian (at around 89%) with about 76% of the population identifying as Catholic, the largest religious minority is Anglicanism, at just over 8%, while 5% of the population follow other denominations; the remaining 11% are made mainly of Hindus, Muslism and Buddhists
The Seychelles are an executive monarchy in the Westminster Style under a military authority, with its monarch holding the executive power and direct control of the local military, which, in special the fleet of the Imperial Navy, holds control over part of the legislative and judiciary powers together with the Parliament of the Seychelles and the High Court of Victoria
The Seychelles were established on October 21st, 1962, as the seventeenth imperial kingdom. Its first (and current) monarch, the fourth daughter and tenth child of Emperor Leonard, never held a dukedom before her enthronement, but was beforehand the acting (later official) Governor of the Seychelles since 1956 and Rear-Admiral of the Indian Ocean Fleet since 1960, and had been married since 1960 to the 3rd Duke of Bolton[7]
The Monarch and her Family
Since 1962: Mary III (b.1938), born
Princess Mary Adelaide of Wales, the first and currently only monarch of the country
Her late husband, Lord Arminston Edward Algar Orde-Powlett,
3rd Duke of Bolton and
8th Baron Bolton (b.1940:d.2015)
1) John Victor of the Seychelles,
4th Duke of Bolton, Duke of Mamelles and
Prince of Mahé (b.1962)
m. Lay Madison Abigail Wyczenski Clunies-Ross (b.1962)
1) Prince Charles of Mahé, Duke of Farquhar and Marquess of Basingstoke (b.1990) m. Lady Lorette Citoyen (b.1990)
1) Princess Arabella of Mamelles, Countess of Bancs de Sable (b.2017)
2) Princess Margot of Mamelles (b.2018)
3) Princess Lucille of Mamelles (b.2019)
4) Princess Olympe of Mamelles (b.2020)
2) Prince Winston of Mahé, Duke of La Digue (b.1991) m. Lady Philippa de Laborde Goldsmith de Monpezat (b.1990)
3) Princess Marion of Mahé (b.1999)
2) Princess Clementine of the Seychelles (b.1963)
m. Crown Prince Mael Jasamanta of Assam,
Maharaja of Balpara, Raja of Jaintia and
Lord of Shillong (b.1956)
1) Adrian of Assam, Crown Prince of Jaintia and Archduke of Kamrup (b.1983) m. Princess Kishori of Manipur (b.1983)
1) Prince Francis of Assam, Prince of Magaldai (b.2005)
2) Princess Adelaide of Assam (b.2006)
3) Prince Octavius of Assam (b.2010)
2) Prince Nathaniel of Assam (b.1985) m. Princess Maria Priyanka de Bourbon, of Bhopal (b.1985)
1) Princess Thomasin of Assam (b.2008)
2) Princess Diana of Assam (b.2012)
3) Prince Charles of Assam (b.2015)
[1] Also known as
Seychellois Creole, it is a French creole language marked by often having words be abbreviated, as well as possessing some adopted words and terms from Albish English. It is known for being the language in which the Anthem of the Seychelles, Koste Seselwa, is written
[2] Descended from the slave transported from Mauritius when the Seychelles were colonized, being the last slaves to be introduced to the Indian Ocean, they are mainly of East African and Malagasy origins, although a considerable minority also possess Albish, Bharati, French or even Chinese ancestry as well
[3] Descended almost entirely from post-Napoleonic settlers, which came mainly from Northwestern England, the Scottish Highlands and Wales; they are the majority ethnic group of the Farquhar and Cosmoledo atolls
[4] Descended almost entirely from the pre-Napoleonic French colonists, most descend from the initial 15 white settlers from Mauritius that first came in 1770
[5] Originated from Chinese immigrants who arrived from Mauritius in 1886, being originally mostly vanilla farmers, the population is descended from them and from relatives brought over from China over the following decades (being mostly of Cantonese and Hakka origins)
[6] Originally descended from South-Bharati/Dravidian slaves and coolies brought during the time of the Seychelles as a colony of France, the majority are of a more recent Bharati origins, mainly coming as workers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
[7] The
Dukes of Bolton of the second creation (1935), they are the female-line descendants of the dukes of the first creation (through the natural daughter of the 5th duke), having been before the dukedom already on the peerage as
Barons Bolton – created in 1797 for Thomas Orde-Powlett, the 5th duke’s natural-son-in-law –, with the future 6th Baron Bolton, Nigel Amyas Orde-Powlett, being created duke in 1935 after his father, the 5th baron, declined the peerage (the 5th baron had been, before inheriting his peerage, a respected MP during the early 20th century, and had been made Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire shortly before the offer of a dukedom)
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Mary III (Mary Adelaide Margaret Jane, born in 7 September 1938) is the Queen of the Seychelles. The first monarch of the islands as an imperial kingdom of Albion, she ascended to the position on October 21st, 1962, upon being enthroned by her sister, Empress Jessamine of Albion. She is one of the three rulers of an imperial kingdom to be enthroned by their sibling, being currently the last one living among Empress Jessamine’s siblings enthroned by her.
Born on September 7th, 1931, in Gosford Park, as the tenth child and fourth daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later Emperor Leonard and Empress Olivia), Mary III was at birth the eleventh in the line of succession to the Albish throne. Like only a few other imperial princes and princesses, her birth was a complete surprise, occurring when the future emperor and empress were attending a shooting party at a country estate, and was doubly surprising due to occurring only a few hours after the murder of the party’s host, Sir William McCordle, 1st Baronet[1].
Known for being energetic and quick-witted since childhood, as well as for having a love for the sea, sailing, and sport fishing, Mary III first expressed her desire to become a sailor as a child, being recorded loudly declaring her ambitious at her 7th birthday party. Entering the Royal Naval College, Osborne, as a 12-year-old in 1950, Mary III remained there even after the beginning of the Second World War, holding her ground in her decision to enter the Royal Navy, which she officially did at the age of 16 upon graduation. During her time at Osborne, Mary III also showed a great interest and liking for acting, being a part of the college’s “theatre association”.
Serving on WWII from 1954 onwards, being deployed to the Indian Ocean and seeing direct action in the Maldives, Seychelles, and the Malay Arch[2], Mary III ended-up becoming the acting governor of the Seychelles in 1956, taking command out of necessity during the Second Chinese Offensive and ending up remaining on the position afterwards.
De facto forced out of frontline duty by her new charge, Mary III remained as acting governor until 1958, when she was officially appointed to the position, and remained as such until her enthronement.
Never officially retiring from active service, Mary III spent the remainder of the war as the
de facto administrator of basically the center point of the Axis’ supply lines in the Indian Ocean, as well as their main retreat, rest and triage point. Although never elevated in rank through the war (mainly due to having more pressing matters), Mary III was retroactively done so in 1960, when she was elevated to the rank of Rear-Admiral in the Indian Ocean Fleet for her service; in 1965 the queen was made a Vice-Admiral, and finally became a semi-honorary Admiral in 1978.
Meeting while at Osborne, but only beginning a relationship in the final years of the Second World War after he became her personal secretary, Mary III finally married in 1960 to Arminston Edward Orde-Powlett, who that same year had become the 3rd Duke and 8th Baron of Bolton. The two remained married for nearly 55 years until the Duke Consort’s death in 2015, having two children together.
Enthroned in October 21st, 1962, the queen was originally planned to be enthrone in 1958, only a few months after the end of WWII, but her own wishes to wait until the rebuilding efforts in the war’s aftermath were completed, and later her continuous attempts to convince the Duke Consort of accepting to become her co-monarch, caused Mary III’s enthronement to be delayed for four years. Due to the time of waiting, plans for her acclamation[3] were already completed by the time of the enthronement, with the ceremony occurring less than a week later in November 1st.
Completing 58 years on the throne in 2020, Mary III’s reign has been a relatively stable one, being marked by the strange contrast between the kingdom’s status as a “glorified naval station”, serving as both the core of the Royal Navy’s control on the Indian Ocean and the headquarters of the fight against piracy in its waters, and its fame as center for tourism on East Africa as much as for being one of the most developed countries in the continent.
Often characterized as a “benevolent dictator”, Mary III has seen her fair share of discontent and dissention during her reign, commanding Seychelles through five failed coup attempts over the decades, the first one, occurring in 1977, being famous for the fact that its leader, the socialist France-Albert René, ended up being later pardoned and made her First Minister, serving on the position for nearly two decades and becoming a personal friend of the queen. Often commented on the strange contrast between her semi-military rule and her kind and motherly image, Mary III is known for having only gone “out of character” a few times during her reign, the most infamous being in 1981 during the “Angela Crisis”, a failed white supremacist coup and insurrection that saw her go all-out with the trappings of a dictator. Ever since the queen is known for her no-quarter policy in relation to white supremacism, most recently shown during the aftermath of Empress Eleanor’s assassination.
Known for often trying to foster good relations between Seychelles and the imperial kingdoms on Bharat, Mary III is currently (as of 2021) one of the monarchs of an imperial kingdom of Albion with the closest connection to the line of succession of another one, her daughter and younger child, Princess Clementine, being set to become Queen consort of Assam in the near future
[1] A interesting tale, often compared to one of Baroness Christie’s novels, the man, a first-generation baronet, was both poisoned and stabbed and almost all of his guests and relatives had some reason to murder him (the man was of quite an unagreeable disposition and most people at Gosford Park at the time either loathed or deeply disliked him).
The culprit of the murder was Sir William’s housekeeper, Helena Wilson, who was later revealed to have done so by poisoning the baronet so as to make sure her son’s only crime was to have stabbed a corpse. For, you see, one of the guest’s (Sir William’s brother-in-law) valet, Robert Parks, was actually the baronet’s illegitimate son, forced to an orphanage by him after Mrs. Wilson, who had been a worker on the baronet’s factory and basically been coerced to have relations with him, gave birth.
Although Mrs. Wilson was initially arrested for the crime, her trial, which saw the revelation of the convoluted tale of the baronet’s murder mainly by the shocking testimony of Gosford Park’s cook (Mrs. Laura Croft nee Wilson, whom was actually Mrs. Wilson for-long-estranged sister (their relationship having rekindled after the murder), and who also had a child by the baronet, and had been forced out of work at his factory after she refused to give them up to adoption), ended with the woman being given an imperial pardon, as although she was judged guilty (as it was a trial more for the decision of her sentence, as Mrs. Wilson had been arrested after confessing to the murder), the circumstances of the murder resulted on the jury actually declaring that “a pardon would be considered acceptable” on their judgement, which was passed by the Crown after a intervention by the then Prince of Wales in her favor.
Although forever estranged from her son (they met periodically, and she did have a closer relationship with his children), Mrs. Wilson lived a relatively well-off life in the years following her trial, being offered the position of housekeeper at Windlesham Moor shortly after her pardon and receiving a grace-and-favour apartment in St James’s Palace after her retirement.
[2] Albish nickname for the outer shores of the Malay Archipelago, also including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, it has come to signify the northeastern parts of the Indian Ocean to the Albish
[3] Mary III declined having a coronation, and instead had a ceremony that was a mix between a Royal Navy award and the acclamation of the Portuguese monarch
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NATAL (Umbuso WaseNatali | Koninkryk van Natal)
Officially the Kingdom of Natal
Capital in the Royal City of Pietermaritzburg, also the kingdom’s second-largest city, with a population of 1.7 million inhabitants. The kingdom’s largest city is Port Natal (or Durban), with a population of 4.2 million inhabitants
The kingdom has Imperial English, Natalia English[1], Zulu and Afrikaans as its official languages
The kingdom has a total population of around 10.5 million inhabitants, marked by migration and colonization through the 19th and early 20th centuries. The majority of the population, at 51%, are Coloured (or Biracial)[2], with the second and third largest groups being Black Africans[3] at 28% and Whites (divided between Boer[4] and Britannic[5]) at 11%, while peoples of South (mainly Bharati[6]) and East Asian (mainly Vietnamese[7]) descent make most of the remaining 10%. The kingdom is majority Christian, with 82% of the population identifying as Protestant[8] and 5% as Catholic, while the largest minorities are Folk Religions, at 8%, and Hinduism, at 3%
Natal is an executive monarchy in the Westminster Style, but nearly veers into being a constitutional absolute monarchy, with its monarch holding the executive power as well as having a wide range of control over the legislative and judiciary, who nominally are under the prerogative of the Natalian Parliament and the High Court of Pietermaritzburg
Natal was established on July 5th, 1979, as the eighteenth imperial kingdom. Its first (and current) monarch, the second son and fourth child of Empress Jessamine, never held a royal dukedom and was unmarried before his enthronement, marrying on June 25th in a ceremony that doubled as his coronation
[1] A dialect of English marked by having the influence form both Afrikaans, Xhosa and Zulu
[2] This is a classification made by various groups, including pre-colonial mixed-race Trekboers, mixed-race descendants of post-1850s white settlers and natives (the largest), and mixed-race descendants of post-1850s white settlers and Bharati laborers
[3] Mainly ethnic Zulus, but with small Sotho and Xhosa minorities as well
[4] The smaller of the two groups (although not by a wide margin), they migrated to the region during the early 19th century and established the Natalia Republic, an almost anarchically disunited Boer State that lasted from 1839 to 1852, when it was annexed by the then British Empire and turned into the Colony of Natal
[5] Mainly English and Welsh in origins, interestingly, this classification also includes those of mixed white and East Asian descent
[6] Descended mainly from Tamil indentured laborers who settled after the expiration of their contracts, brought to Natal by the boom of its sugar, coffee, tea, arrowroot and cotton industries during the mid-19th century, interestingly, this classification often also includes those of mixed Bharati and African ancestry
[7] Descended mainly from farmer immigrants from Cochinchina who came during the late 19th centuries
[8] It has some level of ethnic division, with those more of Boer or Dutch ancestry being mainly Calvinist or Lutheran while those more connected to Albion are mainly Presbyterian and Anglican
The Monarch and His Family
Including: Him, his Consorts, his Lovers, Mistresses, and Paramours, and their offspring, Legitimate or Legitimized
Since 1979: Charles III (b.1958) born
Prince Charles Francis of Albion, the first and currently only monarch of the country
His first consort, married from 1979 to 1985, Princess Anticlea Venakatha of Kandy (b.1958: d.1985) (a)
1) Duncan, Crown Prince of Natal, Grand Prince of Alasia, Archduke of Laverton and Menzies, etc. (b.1980)
His wife, married in 1999, Princess Marianne of Namibia, Air Marshal (b.1980)
His mistress, from 1995 to 1999, Dame Georgiana Strummond (b.1997) (a)
His mistress, from 2005 to 2011, Lady Sophia Spencer, Sergeant (b.1975: d.2011) (b)
1a) Maximillian, Duke of Buffelskloof (b.1997)
2a) Maribelle, Lieutenant-Colonel (b.1999) m. The Hon. Olenna Stanhope-Windsor (b.1999)
3) Lulach, Hereditary First Prince, Prince-Duke of Tugela and Kranskop (b.1999)
m. Princess Catherine of the Transvaal (b.1985) m. Suzaku Takatsukasa, 5th Prince Kururugi (b.2000)
1) Princess Ophelia of Tugela and Kranskop (b.2019)
2) Prince Stephen of Tugela and Kranskop (b.2020)
3) Prince Ciel of Tugela and Kranskop (b.2020)
4) Louis, Prince-Duke of Laingsburg (b.1999) m. Countess Ingrid von und zu Pappenheim (b.1996)
5) Euphemia, Duchess of Verhardingveld (b.2000)
6) Carine, Duchess of Kleinsee (b.2002)
7) Natalia, Duchess of Kenhardt (b.2003)
8) Roland, Duke of Creighton (b.2003)
9b) Faramond, Marquess of Ooshof (b.2008)
2) Guinevere, First Princess of the Realm of Natal (b.1983) m. Julius Kingsley, the Duke of Nymans (b.1999)
1) Lady Alice Kingsley-Windsor-vanNatal, Countess of Gormfield (b.2020)
His second consort, married from 1987 to 2004, Lady Diana Spencer,
2nd Baroness Spencer of Port Natal (b.1964) (b)
1) Andrew, Prince Consort of Halifax (b.1988) m. Princess Johanna Mountbatten, 5th Duchess of Halifax (b.1988)
1) Prince George of Halifax and Natal (b.2018)
2) Princess Matilda of Halifax and Natal (b.2018)
2) Alfred, Third Prince of the Realm of Natal (b.1989)
3) Schneizel of Natal, First Minister of the Realm, Duke of Iddlingshire (b.1993)
1) Legitimized Prince Louis of Iddlingshire (b.2015)
2) Legitimized Princess Cora of Iddlingshire (b.2018)
4) Diana of Natal, Second Princess of the Realm (b.1994: d.2016)
5) Clovis I, King jure uxoris of Bourbon (b.1996) m. Marie II Randrianarisoa, Queen of Bourbon (b.1996)
1) Prince Philippe Razafindramary, Dauphin of Bourbon (b.2020)
2) Prince Alexandre Randriamahazomana, Duke of Saint Gilles (b.2020)
3) Prince Chlothar Randriamihaja, Duke of Bras-Panon (b.2020)
His third consort, married from 2005 to 2007, Princess Carine Windsor-FitzLouise-Gore of Arran (b.1975: d.2007) (c)
1) Castor, (b.2005)
2) Pollux, Duke of Dundashire/Dundas (b.2005) m. Annabeth Franklyn (b.2004)
1) Prince Arcadius of Dundas (b.2020)
3) Eurydice, (b.2007)
His fourth consort, married from 2010 to 2018, Lady Martha Frances McMahon (b.1982) (d)
1) Mathilda, (b.2011)
2) Violet, (b.2013)
3) Sybil, (b.2014)
4) Evelyn, (b.2016)
5) Jocelyn, (b.2016)
His fifth and current consort, lover since 2015, married since 2018, Prince Frederick of Albany and Battenberg (b.1997) (e)
1) Elizabeth, (b.2020)
2) Kathryn, (b.2020)
3) Marion, (b.2020)
4) Henry, (b.2020)
His lover, from 1973 to ≈1978, Samuel Evelyn McPherson-Browne-Ashford,
Consort of Appomattox (b.1958: d.2020) (*)
His lover, from 1973 to ≈1978, Regina Marion Browne-Ashford,
1st Duchess of Appomattox (b.1958: d.2013) (*)
1) Georgiana, Most Lovingly Remembered (b.1975: d.1978)
2) Theodore, (b.1976) m. Dona Josefina de Oliveira e Daun de Lencastre, 11th/3rd Duchess of Aveiro (b.1971)
1) Dom Sebastião Augusto de Natal e Lencastre (b.2001)
2) Dom José Jorge de Natal e Lencastre (b.2002)
His lover and later mistress, from 1975 to 1979 and 1985 to 1993, Dame Theresa Jung-ok Kim,
1st Baronetess (b.1952) (*)
1) Vincent, 1st Duke of New Hereford (b.1988: d.2019) m. Princess Jane Yasmin of Kiloa (b.1989)
1) Victoria, 2nd Duchess of New Hereford (b.2011)
2) Princess Fatima of New Hereford and Kiloa (b.2013)
3) Princess Leonie of New Hereford and Kiloa (b.2014)
His lover and later mistress, from 1976 to 1990, Princess Alexandra Marinovna Yusupova (b.1955) (*)
1) Tatiana, Countess of Canemard (b.1979)
Her first consort, from 2002 to 2009, Prince Heinrich XLIV. Reuss zu Köstritz (b.1978) (a)
Her second consort, since 2013, Buhle Baone (b.1979) (b)
1a) Prince Heinrich V. Reuss zu Köstritz of Canemard, Viscount Cadbury (b.2005)
2a) Prince Heinrich VI. Reuss zu Köstritz of Canemard (b.2005)
3b) Princess Alexandra of Canemard (b.2016)
2) Konstantin, Prince Yusupov of Natal (b.1983) m. Count Raphaël Etienne de Polignac (b.1987)
1) Princess Xenia Konstantinovna Yusupov (b.2017)
2) Princess Olga Konstantinovna Yusupov (b.2019)
3) Vasily, Most Lovingly Remembered (1984)
4) Ekaterina, Lady of Kériolet (b.1987) m. Bernard Clavering-Cowper, Duke of Fordwich-Nassau (b.1987)
1) Lord Charles Arthur de Grey Nassau Clavering-Cowper, Earl Cowper (b.2012)
2) Lady Elizabeth Madeleine de Grey Nassau Clavering-Cowper (b.2014)
3) Lady Brigitte Jane de Grey Nassau Clavering-Cowper (b.2015)
4) Lord Max Frederick de Grey Nassau Clavering-Cowper (b.2017)
5) Lady Henrietta Nathalia de Grey Nassau Clavering-Cowper (b.2018)
6) Lady Louisa May de Grey Nassau Clavering-Cowper (b.2019)
His lover, from 1978 to 1980, Elizabeth Porter Clayton,
by marriage Baroness of Cardinham (b.1957) (*)
1) Regina, Duchess of Emnambithi (b.1980) m. Princess Sonia Gugulethu of Zulu (b.1981)
1) Prince George of Emnambithi (b.2018)
His lover, from 1985 to 1987,
The Hon. Sir Francis Emmanuelle Barker (b.1954: d.2016) (*)
1) Theobald, Duke of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, Lord Administrator of Tristan da Cunha (b.1986)
His first consort, from 2009 to 2010, The Hon. Sophia Bonham Carter, Commodore (b.1985) (a)
His second consort, from 2012 to 2014, from Madame Marie Anaïs Grimaldi, of Toudon (b.1986) (b)
His third consort, since 2016, Sir Jonas Hengji Xiang, KCVO (b.1986) (c)
1b) Lucas Melchior, Earl of Pormfrost (b.2014)
His paramour, from 1988 to 2007, Henry Pieter van Schoor,
Admiral,
Duke of Nyberg (b.1964) (*)
1) Richard, Duke of Grootvloer (b.1991) m. Princess Nguyễn Phương Liên of Vietnam (b.1989)
2) Friedrich, Duke of Lidgetton (b.1992) m. Anders Stromm du Bloch-Carcenac (b.1989)
3) Isobel, Countess of Houtleih (b.2002) m. Sir Raphael Boyce-Mthembu (b.2002)
His mistress, from 1989 to 1992, Victoria Gutiérrez de la Concha y Carvadales,
7th Marchioness of Havana, Grandee (b.1965) (*)
1) Cornelia, Major-General, Baroness of Guadalest (b.1993)
His mistress, from 1989 to 1995, Carole Ntombizanele Stairs-Jones,
3rd Countess Jones-Baskin (b.1961) (*)
1) Claire, Princess Takamado (b.1992) m. Renya, Prince Takamado of Japan (b.1992)
1) Princess Sayako of Takamado (b.2017)
2) Prince Kuniie of Takamado (b.2018)
3) Prince Shigejiro of Takamado (b.2019)
2) Sebastian, Prince of Valguarnera (b.1995) m. Vittoria Alliata, 15th Princess of Villafranca, etc. (b.1950)
1) Princess Teresa van Natal Alliata di Villafranca (b.2018)
2) Princess Giovanna van Natal Alliata di Villafranca (b.2018)
3) Princess Raphaela van Natal Alliata di Villafranca (b.2018)
4) Prince Antonio Francesco van Natal Alliata di Villafranca, Duke of Salaparuta (b.2018)
5) Princess Maria Immacolata van Natal Alliata di Villafranca (b.2020)
6) Prince Giuseppe Antonio van Natal Alliata di Villafranca (b.2020)
His lover, from 1991 to 1996,
The Hon. Feodora Marbury (b.1966: d.2011) (*)
1) Nathaniel, Duke of Nuweburg (b.1994)
His first consort, from 2014 to 2016, Lady Joanna Boipelo Mosetsanagape (b.1991: d.2016) (a)
His second consort, since 2019, Lady Suzanna Masego Mosetsanagape (b.1993) (b)
1a) Princess Catrina Sethunya of Nuweburg (b.2016)
2a) Prince Moritz Tshepo of Nuweburg (b.2016)
3a) Prince Andreas Thabang of Nuweburg (b.2016)
His lover, from 1992 to 1995,
HIH Humphrey Maynwaring Frowseloure,
Earl of Edgerley (b.1963) (*)
1) Elsa, Grand Duchess of Tilea (b.1993) m. Prince Alexander of Tilea (b.1991) (a) m. Gerhard Fernandes (b.1993) (b)
1a) Princess Mabel of Tilea, Lady of Miragliano (b.2012)
2a) Prince Mason of Tilea, Hereditary Grand Duke (b.2012)
3b) Princess Simone of Tilea, Lady of Pavonia (b.2020)
2) Lucille, Hereditary Countess of Edgerley (b.1994) m. Prince Natsuhiko Tokugawa of Mildian (b.1994)
3) Julia, Duchess of Shemya (b.1994) m. HS Grayson Silvestrov Milkovich (b.1993)
His lover and later mistress, from 1993 to 1998,
The Hon. Charlotte Baskerville-Canty (b.1979) (*)
1) Addam, Most Lovingly Remembered (b.1995: d.2016)
2) Magnus, Count of Andrade (b.1998) m. Enriqueta Martinez de Irujo y Fitz-James, 13th Duchess of Montoro (b.1999)
1) Doña Maria Adriana FitzRoy-Windsor y Martinez de Irujo, 20th Marchioness of the Carpio, Grandee (b.2018)
2) Doña Cayetana FitzRoy-Windsor y Martinez de Irujo, 25th Countess of Lemos (b.2019)
3) Doña Brianda Helena FitzRoy-Windsor y Martinez de Irujo, 23rd Countess of Villalba (b.2020)
His mistress, from 1994 to 1997,
Lady Florence Spencer-Churchill (b.1967: d.2014) (*)
1) Felix Winston, Prince of Mindelheim (b.1997) m. Maria Franziska von Osten-Sacken-Bogdanov (b.1995)
His lover, from 1994 to 2001, Bernard Raubenheimer Pretorius,
1st Earl of Veermark (b.1971: d.2001) (*)
His lover, from 1994 to 2001, Ottoline Raubenheimer Pretorius,
1st Baroness Everyngstal (b.1971: d.2001) (*)
1) Saartje, (b.1997) m. Piers Butler, 1st Duke, 9th Marquess and 27th Earl of Ormonde (b.1993)
1) Lord Oliver Tyler Butler, 8th Earl of Ossory and Viscount Mountgarret (b.2016)
2) Lady Siobhan Julia Butler (b.2019)
2) Lavinia, Baroness Fitzroy of Estone, Most Lovingly Remembered (b.1999: d.2018)
3) Bertrand, Duke of Nekveldring and 2nd Earl of Veermark (b.1999) m. Margaret Ntobeko Ndobe-Lawne (b.1998)
4) Jacob, Earl of Geselskap (b.2000)
5) Adele, Countess of Estone (b.2001) m. Clara Madstone (b.2000) (a)
1) Lady Jane of Estone (b.2015)
2) Lord James of Estone (b.2019)
His mistress, from 1996 to 2001,
Madam Margaret Evangeline Leask,
Maid of Leask (b.1974: d.2007) (*)
1) Kenneth, (b.1998)
His lover, from 1997 to 2000,
The Hon. Dame Kholiwe Victoria Nqakula,
1st Baronetess (b.1973) (*)
1) Nathalie, (b.1999)
His lover, from 1998 to 2002, Dame Ariana Bhekifa Dlamlenze Mulder,
1st Baronetess (b.1970: d.2012) (*)
1) Walburga, (b.2001)
2) Antonia, (b.2002)
His lover, from 1998 to 2003,
Grossbürgerin Anna von Gravenreuth-Jauch of Hamburg (b.1974: d.2003) *)
1) Wulfric, Lord of Wellingsbüttel (b.1999) m. Balthasar Friedrich von Campenhausen (b.1997)
2) Wolfgang, Lord of Schönhagen (b.2001) m. Madison Staples Lewis (b.2001)
1) Annelise, (b.2019)
3) Wilhelmina, Lady of Krummbek (b.2002)
His lover, from 2001 to 2009, Marieke van den Heever,
1st Baroness of Slymaford (b.1969: d.2013) (*)
1) Johannes, 2nd Baron of Slymaford (b.2003)
2) Samantha, (b.2004)
3) Ottoline, (b.2007)
4) Lionel, (b.2009)
His paramour, from 2002 to 2015, Sir Charles Ambrose Fitzwilliam O’Brien,
1st Earl of Phumulplek (b.1955: d.2015) (*)
1) Marcus, 2nd Earl of Phumulplek (b.2002) m. Theresa Abusiswe McMahon (b.2000)
1) Lord Neil vanNatal-McMahon-Windsor, Viscount Murgaut (b.2020)
His paramour, from 2003 to 2014,
Hochwohlgeboren Pascal Rudolph von Gravenreuth,
Freiherr (b.1988) (*)
1) Reinrich, (b.2007)
2) Ludwig, (b.2007)
His lover, from 2005 to 2011, Adelaide Scawen Wyndham,
by courtesy Baroness Leconfield (b.1972) (*)
1) Philippa, (b.2008)
2) Peter, (b.2010)
3) Margaret, (b.2012)
His mistress, from 2007 to 2015, Dame Mary Bhekithemba Tyali van Der Knaap (b.1980) (*)
1) Prudence (b.2008)
2) Theophania, (b.2011)
3) Augusta, (b.2013)
4) Henrietta, (b.2015)
5) Credence, (b.2015)
His lover, from 2010 to 2015,
The Rt. Hon. Justice Violet Thu Nguyen,
Baroness Nguyen of Walden (b.1966) (*)
1) Benjamin, (b.2011)
2) Cyrus, (b.2011)
His lover, from 2011 to 2018,
The Hon. Dame Isobel Dorothea O’Brien,
1st Baronetess (b.1991) (*)
1) Alexander, (b.2013)
2) Flora, (b.2014)
3) Saoirse, (b.2015)
His mistress, from 2012 to 2015, Dame Ntsoaki Hoyle Battersby,
1st Baronetess (b.1980) (*)
1) Alec, (b.2012)
2) Samuel, (b.2013)
His lover, from 2013 to 2019, Sir Michael Thandisizwe Matshoba,
1st Baronet (b.1994) (*)
1) James, (b.2016)
His lover, from 2015 to 2017, Dame Agetha Caaren Opperman,
1st Baronetess (b.1994) (*)
1) Thomasin, (b.2017)
His mistress, since 2014, Sabelo Nonkosi Cohen,
Countess of Vunksdorf (b.1992) (*)
1) Guilford, (b.2014)
2) Sophia, (b.2016)
3) Paul, (b.2019)
His mistress, since 2016, Maline Lindelani Waterboer,
Countess of Swanton (b.1995) (*)
1) Nicholas, (b.2018)
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QUEBEC (Royaume du Québec)
Officially the Kingdom of Quebec
Capital in the City of Quebec, also the kingdom’s second-largest city, with a population of 550 thousand inhabitants. The kingdom’s largest city is Montreal, with a population of 1.7 million inhabitants
The kingdom has English[1] and Québécois French[2] as its official languages
The kingdom has a total population of 8.5 million inhabitants, a majority of ~87% of whom self-identify as Québécois[3], while the remaining 13% are divided mostly among Other Europeans[4], First Nations[5], and Francophone Immigrants[6]. It is a majority Roman Catholic population, at around 87%, with only 5% identifying as being of other Christian denominations, while there are also visible Jewish[7] (3.6%) and Muslim (1.5%) minorities
Quebec is nominally an executive monarchy in the Westminster Style, with the monarch delegating most of her executive powers to her Private Secretary and intervening only when necessary, while the legislative and judiciary powers are held by the Parliament of Quebec and the Quebecois High Court
Quebec was established on May 6th, 1982, as the nineteenth imperial kingdom. Its first (and current) monarch, the third daughter and fifth child of Empress Jessamine, never held a royal dukedom before her enthronement, which occurred only days after her marriage
Unlike all other imperial kingdoms, Quebec was established as an imperial kingdom in the process of being separate from a larger contiguous territory of the Albish Empire, being until 1982 a Province of Canada and even after its establishment Quebec is highly interconnected with its previous state
The Monarch and her Family
Since 1982: Anne II (b.1959) born
Princess Anne Catherine of Albion, the first and currently only monarch of the country
Her late first husband, married in 1982, Sir Carlisle Wyndham-Burns (b.1958:d.1997)(a)
Her second husband, married in 2001, Nathan Colling-Kaplam,
5th Baronet (b.1976)(b)
1a) Princess Victoria of Quebec, Dauphine of Quebec and Duchess of Montréal (b.1988)
m. Prince Louis Alois of Provence (b.1987)
1) Princess Anne Elizabeth of Quebec (b.2015)
2) Princess Charlotte of Quebec (b.2016)
2a) Princess Raquel of Quebec, Duchess of Léry (b.1995) m. David Alexander Grant, 13th Baron de Longueil (b.1994)
1) Prince Michael Alexander Grant of Léry, Earl of Lachute (b.2018)
3b) Prince George Louis of Quebec, Duke of Estrie (b.2003)
[1] A variation of Canadian English with some Quebecois loanwords and pronounce
[2] The dominant language of Quebec and the predominant variant of French in Canada (West of the Bay of St. Lawrence), it is marked for being remarkably distinguishable from Standard French in its accent and phonetic differences (although the latter does decrease the more formal manner the Quebecois French is spoken) and for being closer to 17th century Parisian French than to modern Standardized French
[3] Also called French-Canadians
[4] A large percentage of them are those who self-identify as Romani or as of Romani descent (who also extend to those self-identified as “Quebecois”, who mainly came from Western Europe (majorly France) during the early and middle 20th century to flee the persecution against them that had been in the rise in the region since the times before the First World War
[5] The largest First Nations in Quebec being the Cree, Innu and Mohawks
[6] Mainly black immigrants from Haiti, Louisiana and French West Africa
[7] Which came mainly from France during the mid-20th century due to the Second World War
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PAPUA AND THE SOLOMONS
Officially the United Kingdom of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Capital in Port Moresby, also the kingdom’s largest city, with a population of 2.2 million inhabitants
The kingdom has English, Papomon[1], Hiri Motu[2] and Sign Language[3] as its official languages, it also recognizes over 600 “living languages” within its territory, which are considered official mainly on the local level
The kingdom has a total population of 4.8 million inhabitants, about three-quarters of which line in the New-Guinean half
An extremely multiethnic state, most of the kingdom’s population are Melanesians (comprising nearly 80% of the population), which is on itself an amalgam of the hundreds of native ethnic groups spread across its territory, while the remaining percentage of the population is a mix of peoples of (sometimes mixed) Polynesian, Micronesian, Japanese and European ancestry.
Religiously the kingdom is majority Christian, with 63.7% of the population identifying as some denomination of it (the largest denominations being Anglicans, Papuan Protestants[4] and Roman Catholics[5]), while its largest religious minority is Judaism[6], at 31.5%[7], while the remainder of the population is mostly a mix of followers strictly of Folk Religions, Baha’is[8], Buddhists and Muslims
Papua and the Solomons are an executive monarchy in the Westminster Style, with their monarch holding control over the executive power while the legislative and judiciary are held by the Parliament and High Court of Port Moresby
Papua and the Solomons were established on August 25th, 1989, as the twentieth imperial kingdom. Its first (and current) monarch, the youngest daughter and child of Empress Jessamine, never held a royal dukedom before her enthronement, but had been married since late 1988, with most people believing delays in planning caused her not to be enthroned shortly after marriage
Unlike only one other imperial kingdom, Papua and the Solomons was established out of two Crown Colonies, being the first of them to ever be so. Its Royal Family is also one of the few among the imperial kingdoms who are barred from the line of succession, due to matters of religion[9]
The Monarch and her Family
Since 1989: Augusta (b.1963) born
Princess Augusta of Albion, the first and currently only monarch of the country
Her husband, Prince Alec Julian Ben-Zephaniah Windsor-FitzLouise-Gore of Arran,
Vice-Admiral of the Pacific Fleet (b.1963)
1) James of Papua and the Solomons,
Grand Prince of D’Entrecasteaux (b.1992) m. Princess Emma of Samoa and Prussia (b.1992)
1) Prince Julian of Papua and the Solomons (b.2017)
2) Princess Margaret of Papua and the Solomons (b.2019)
3) Princess Luiza of Papua and the Solomons (b.2019)
[1] Which as semi-constructed language created from the two main English Creole Languages in the kingdom, Pijin and Tok Pisin, the respective creole
lingua franca of the Solomon Islands and Papua
[2] A simplified variant of the Motu Language, an Austronesian language from the area around Port Moresby, it is a mix of both a creole and a simplified (or pidgin) language, and served as the original
lingua franca in Papua New Guinea during colonial times
[3] In specific the local standardized sign language (and not the imperial)
[4] Although almost all non-native religions in the kingdom see a high level of syncretism among its followers, Papuan Protestants, like the various Hindu-Anglicans in Bharat, officially include traditional beliefs (most often animism and ancestor worship) in with Christian ones. Much like Hindu-Anglicanism, Papuan Protestantism is divided among various, often localized and small, sects.
[5] Which is the largest non-protestant Christian sect in the kingdom, at just under a fifth of the total Christian population, and is mainly present on the Highlands and Northern regions of Papua and on areas connected to Bougainville
[6] It is believed that Judaism came to Papua and the Solomon Islands (the latter first) at some point in the mid-to-late 18th century (some also say it could have been on the earliest 19th), when a Jewish rabbi, Zephaniah ben Michael, and possibly his family, became stranded on one of the various Solomon Islands and not only made friends but became integrated into a local tribe, which converted into a newborn (highly syncretized) branch of Judaism. It is believed that the spread of Judaism from there, which occurred surprisingly fast for something that doesn’t seem to have included outright missionary work, was then caused by the original tribe being either well-connected with the rest of the Solomon Islands or have been forced to enter a diaspora period, which through luck spread the new religion through firstly the islands and then to New Guinea (with Judaism being also a relatively-large religion on the other quarters of the island), with both having considerable Jewish populations by the time the Albish came
[7] Technically the largest single religious sect in the kingdom (as “Solomonian Judaism”, also known as “Zephanite Judaism” seems to have a relatively large amount of willingness for internal variety in syncretized beliefs while remaining
de jure or
de facto united), it is the absolute majority in the Solomon Islands and mainly present on Peninsular/Eastern Papua
[8] The religion is probably the most recent among visible minorities in the kingdom, coming to it during the early-to-mid 20th century and having as followers about 1% of the kingdom’s total population
[9] Although Queen Augusta was born in the protestant Anglican Church, she chose to convert to Judaism as a part of her marriage, differentiating her and her family from the Royal House of Berar who hold to various Jewish beliefs but remain officially Christians
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SOUTHERN ANTILLES
Officially the United Kingdom of the Islands of the Southern Antilles
Capital in Port of Spain, also the kingdom’s second largest city, with a population of 45 thousand inhabitants. The kingdom’s largest city is San Fernando, with a population of 72 thousand inhabitants
The kingdom has Imperial English as its official language, it also recognizes a total of twelve other languages, including 6 English-based Creoles[1], 3 French-based Creoles[2], 2 “Indian” Creoles[3], Spanish[4] and Karif[5]
The kingdom has a total population of about 2.2 million inhabitants, of whom about 65% are Black (with local percentages varying wildly depending on the region), while the remaining 35% are made mainly of Mixed-Race, European White and Bharati origins, there are also small Carib[6] and Arawak[7] populations. The kingdom is majority Christian, with around 78% of the population identifying as such (with neither Catholics or Protestants being an overwhelming majority), while the largest religious minorities are Hindus, at 8%, and Yahas[8], at 5%
The Southern Antilles are a semi-executive federative monarchy partially in the Westminster Style, with their monarch nominally holding the executive power over the state but rarely actually getting involved in the day-to-day administration of the kingdom, leaving most of it to his Private Secretary, while each of the kingdom’s components are mostly self-governing
The Southern Antilles were established on March 25th, 2012, as the twentieth-first imperial kingdom. Their first (and current) monarch, the second son and fourth child of Empress Charlotte, never held a royal dukedom before his enthronement, which occurred the day before his wedding
Like only Papua and the Solomons, the Southern Antilles were established from a group of territories of the Albish Empire, and is unique in that its many components were initially made into separate imperial kingdoms in personal union, being officially united into a single entity in 2014
The Monarch and his Family
Since 2012: Alexander IV (b.1985) born
Prince Alexander Michael of Norwich, the first and currently only monarch of the country
His wife, Alba Muñoz Tamayo (b.1984)
1) Prince Louis of the Antilles (b.2014)
2) Prince Henry of the Antilles (b.2015)
3) Princess Maria of the Antilles (b.2016)
4) Princess Lourdes of the Antilles (b.2018)
5) Prince Mariano of the Antilles (b.2020)
[1] In specific the creoles local to Tobago, Trinidad, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (which is often called “Vincentian Creole”), Grenada (whose local creole is especially influenced by French), Barbados (which is often called “Bajan Creole”) and Saint-Lucia (which is even more influenced by French than that of Grenada). Many of these creoles are often confounded with the non-standard variations of imperial English spoken by most of the kingdom
[2] In specific the creoles local to Saint-Lucia, Grenada and Trinidad (the former two being sometimes considered dialects of the larger Antillean French Creole)
[3] In specific “Caribbean Hindustani” and “Caribbean Tamil”, both the result of 19th and 20th century Bharati immigration
[4] Which, ITTL, has a relatively large population of native speakers in Trinidad, mainly moved from Venezuela during the late 19th and early 20th centuries or descended from Spanish (mainly Andalusian) immigrants from the same era
[5] Which is considered an endangered language due to its small population of native speakers, who live solely in Barbados
[6] Which, ITTL, have a relatively large population on Grenada, Saint Vincent and Tobago, including both the Kalinago/traditional Island Carib and the Garifuna (or “Black Caribs”)
[7] All of which descend from a small group of early-20th century Lokono immigrants from Guyana, led by Princess Marian of the Toh Isauka Chiefdom (one of the many native semi-princely states of Albish Guyana, and the last to come under Albish rule), to Barbados, most of them also descend from the princess herself, and her Danish-Dutch-Canadian husband
[8] “Yaha” is the ITTL name for Rastafarianism, which has a slightly different history, beliefs and development compared to OTL
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BELIZE
Officially the
Kingdom of Grand Belize[1]
and the Bay
Capital in the
City of Belize, also the kingdom’s largest city, with a population of
2.7 million inhabitants
The kingdom has
Imperial English as its standard official language[2], with
Kriol[3] and
Belizean Spanish[4] being main spoken languages, it also recognizes as official
thirteen other languages, including
7 Mayan languages[5],
3 German Dialects[6],
Hindi[7],
Garifuna[8],
Bay Spanish[9],
Japanese[10], and
Corozali[11]
The kingdom has a total population of
5 million inhabitants, heavily affected by centuries of colonization and immigration[12] and comprised by an incredibly variety of ethnic groups and ethnicities[13], and is a majority
Christian state, with about
54% of the population identifying as being
Roman Catholic and another
38% identifying as being of some
Protestant denomination (while
3% identify as
Eastern Orthodox)
Belize is a
semi-executive monarchy in the Westminster Style, with its monarch having control over the executive power but sharing it with her
First Minister, often delegating much of it and serving as a mediator, tie-breaker and proof-reader to both the
Ministers,
Parliament and
High Court of Belize
Belize was established on
September 3rd, 2015, as the twentieth-second imperial kingdom. Its first (and current) monarch, the youngest daughter and child of Empress Charlotte, never held a royal dukedom before her enthronement, which was planned to occur a month after her marriage
The most recent imperial kingdom to be created, and the last to be created by Empress Jessamine (who died before officially issuing Queen Agnes' enthronement, done posthumously under Empress Eleanor)
, some claim that it might justifiably be the last imperial kingdom to ever be created within at least the confines of Earth
Uniquely, Belize is the sole imperial kingdom in the Americas to possess a princely state, the
Realm of Petén, which holds the distinction of being the only pre-Columbian Mesoamerican state to survive the Spanish Colonial Period[14]
The Monarch and her Family
: Agnes (b.1989) born
Princess Agnes May of Norwich, the first and currently only monarch of the country
Her husband, Alfred Fredleifson Mackenzie,
2nd Viscount of Dagringa (b.1986)
1) Princess Isla of Belize, Grand Duchess of the Bay Islands (b.2016)
2) Princess Suellen of Belize (b.2017)
[1] When Albish Honduras was renamed in the 1970s, the agreed name was simply “Belize”, which had colloquially become the name of the colony, when Belize and the Bay Islands were turned into a kingdom, it was decided that an added flare should be made due to “Belize” being more connected to the kingdom’s eastern continental half and disregarding the Western half of Petén. And so, the name “Grand Belize” (another name proposed was “Belize and Petén”, which was decided would confuse things with the Mayan
Kingdom of Petén, which was also a part of the imperial kingdom) was agreed upon in early 2015, although the kingdom is still often called simply “Belize”
[2] Serving as both the language of law and the basis for the English education and a
lingua franca for parts of the country
[3] The colloquial name for the Belizean Creole, after English it is the most common second language
[4] Which is relatively close to Mexican Spanish
[5] In specific the Q’eqchi’, Mopan, Yucatec, Itza, Kowo, Yalain and Lacandon languages
[6] In specific the Pennsylvania Dutch, Plautdietsch (or Mennonite Low German) and Belizean German (influenced by Spanish, Q’eqchi’ and Kriol and spoken mainly by the urban and the more mixed-race Mennonite communities)
[7] Which is the name used in Belize to identify a set of dialects of Hindi-Urdu (or Hindustani)
[8] Called “Karif” in the South Antilles, it is the language of the Garifuna people
[9] Which is influenced heavily by English in general and by Jamaican Patois
[10] A localized dialect derived from the more western dialects of Japanese, and influenced by the Ryukyuan languages
[11] A creole language established on the Corozal County on the north of the kingdom, from the mix of Tamil, Spanish, Yucatec Maya, English and a bit of Hindustani
[12] The lands of Belize (in special the coastal region) were a part of Central America that remained elusive to Spanish control for much of their colonial empire, with the English being the first Europeans to successfully settle on the coastlands of Belize during the early 18th century and the inlands of the Petén Basin only being conquered by the Spanish at the end of the 17th century, and much of their settlement was actually one that occurred through the 19th and 20th centuries as the kingdom was developed
[13] A list of them includes:
-
Mestizos (also known as
Hispanic Belizeans), the largest ethnic group, they are people of mixed Spanish and Maya descent, who actually mainly came to Belize during the mid-19th century to escape the early years of the
Caste War of Yucatan and settled mainly along the north and the coasts of the kingdom
-
Ladinos (also known as
Hispanic Belizeans), the largest ethnic group of the western half of Belize, they are people of mixed Spanish and Maya descent much like the Mestizos above, but unlike them are the result of miscegenation locally instead of having migrated into Belize
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Creoles (also known as
Kriol), the second-largest ethnic group of the kingdom, they originated from the many Black Africans brought by English and Scottish log-cutters at the inception of Belize, and have developed with the miscegenation with both said log-cutters and other later white settlers, the native Mayan peoples, and the various immigrant groups of the recent centuries
-
Mayas (also known as
First Nations or
First Peoples), actually a group of various tribes and peoples, like the Yucatec, Itza, Kowoj, Mopan and Q’eqchi’, some of them are native to Belize (even if some, like the Mopan, were forced to flee and then returned later on) while others migrated to it during the 19th century, often fleeing enslavement in Guatemala
-
Gariganu (often called
Garifuna, even if that is actually the singular for their name), a people mainly of the coastal regions of Belize, they are a people of a mixed African, Arawak and Island Carib ancestry, being originated from the Black Caribs that were forced out of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines during the 18th century and settled along the coastlands of the Bay of Honduras
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Baymen, chiefly the descendants of the earlier white settlers of Belize
-
Islanders (also known as
Hispanic Baymen), the main inhabitants of the Bay Islands, being of Hispanic ancestry and mainly whites or white-passing generally speaking
-
Mennonites (also known as
Germans and
Prussians), they are actually three separate groups of Mennonites who migrated to Belize over the 19th and 20th centuries, coming from the United States, Russia and Mexico (in order of earlier to later coming)
-
Hindi (also known as
Corozali and
Bharati), the descendants of the Bharati immigrants who came mainly as indentured workers to Belize during the 19th century, being actually made of a mix of ethnic groups including the Tamil and Punjabi
- and
East Asians, the descendants of the mainly Japanese and Ryukyuan immigrants who came to Central America during the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
[14] A minor Pre-Victorian POD. Although in OTL the end of the last independent native peoples in Mesoamerica was a brutal one of conquest in 1697, ITTL the Kingdom of Petén Itza not only managed to establish a pseudo-coalition with the neighboring Kowoj and Yalain Mayas but, after a “minor” conflict and negotiating, became a vassal state of the Spanish Empire, made of the kingdoms of the Itza, Kowoj and Yalain peoples, which survived relatively unscathed through the 18th and 19th centuries, although attracting immigration from other Mayan peoples. The kingdom officially became a princely state of Albish Honduras/Belize in the 19th century, when its rulers saw Albion as the lesser of two evils compared to Guatemala, and ended-up serving as the axis for the establishment of Albish rule over the OTL Petén Department
