This was one of my
earliest photo-manipulations, via Paint before they had brush tools. And I still use it, more or less, as the "canon" depiction of this character in my literary universe:
HM Francis Charles XII of the House of Compton, Emperor of the Terran Empire. He was the penultimate Terran Emperor, reigning from 3231 at age 13 (regency till 3235) to his death in battle in 3268.
He is idolised by conservatives and royalists and vilified by radicals for his traditionalist, even reactionary, convictions. However, he leaned somewhat towards human unity and continually supported a mixed cabinet of Tories and National Humanists, believing it possible to moderate the radical nationalists. He was, however, unable to stem the tide of the radical, revolutionary right-wing takeover, partly out of his own fear of equally radical leftist and colonial-liberation groups. He consented, in the end, to his son's political ascent as Prime Minister, still labouring under the belief the the National Humanist party could be brought to heel if it were aligned with the Crown. His death in battle was the turning point that gave Maximilian absolute power and enabled him to "complete" the National Humanist "soft revolution" and reshape the newly-unified galaxy as the Central Galactic Union.
But, many still view Francis Charles with fondness and remember his reign well, despite it being fraught with political upheaval and continual civil war. His son, now-Chancellor Maximilian, remarked "...He was the last true knight, with all the faults and glories that such an appellation implies."