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While a city under siege, where do the people who can't help defend (babies, young children, sick, injured, disabled, elderly, pregnant women etc.) the city go to hide?

If the king wasn't able to get his family out of the city, where do most vulnerable members of his family go to hide to ride it out?

What do farmers do as their crops and animals get taken away by the attackers?

How long can a city being sieged last with cut supply lines? Are they worse off if the siege started right before harvest time?

Can peasants revolt ageist the king they hate during a siege?

When the attackers managed to break through the city's walls, what they attack first in order as they bring the city down to it's knees.

What are instances where the city's king or lord fought all the way to the point that he died as he doesn't want to surrender? The city's defenses are fully breached, the attacker swarmed the city and the castle, and the army is defeated.

During the siege, when is the best time to rescue your royals and nobles who are the enemy's prisoner of war?

The siege ends with the defeat of the enemy kingdom. What happens to the prisoners you still have for ransom?

Mostly they would stay in their own homes but they could try seek sanctuary in a place of religion or the nearest castle but this would likely be refused.

In the castle/palace.

Nothing if they want to live. They could try fight but they will likely be struck down.

It depends how strong the defences are, if there is any food inside the walls and whether the leadership inside can keep the law and order inside the walls. There is no average time. Sieges could last days, weeks or even years. Before harvest is not the most ideal time.

They can certainly try.

Usually they go for armouries and where defenders would be but it is likely that once inside, they will attack anybody and everything they could get their hands on.

When they have no other choice or know that they may be killed anyway but will fight to end.

Before the invaders enter the city, anybody can be killed in the crossfire of a falling city

So sorry if this has been already asked and answered. How would the public perceive the daughter of a marquis or duke marrying a lower rank untitled son, especially if the son has a reputation of being overly involved with his personal pursuits/interests. Would there be any discourse/talk or would that be another Tuesday of missed opportunity?

Thanks so much and so sorry if this doesn’t make sense.

I just asked (also anonymously) about whether your post about employment in a castle applies to a palace as well, but I forgot to add for context (if necessary) that my palace is set in the late victorian/edwardian era, and with a more Russian autocracy, if that changes anything

Have them be introduced by the hostess

Have her mother invite him to events

Obviously we have Edward’s marriage to Elizabeth, but even that was not as extreme a step down, and it seems like the English were a lot more stringent with marriages amongst the upper classes/royalty than other cultures might be, and it seems like perhaps morganatic marriages were far less common back then than in an era like the 1700s-1900s.

I have an oc who I want to make a distant member of the royal family; would he be a Prince or a Grand duke (or something else entirely) if he was the great-grandson of a tsar who had since passed on?

Idk if that was confusing or not, so I guess I’m just generally asking what level of relation to the royal family corresponds to what title. What would the first or second cousin of a tsar be?

Thank you, have a great day!

Did people in the late 1800s and such really call their siblings like “sister” and “brother” instead of their name usually? How about siblings with an older brother who recently came into the title of Grand Duke and became head of the household?

Would they have to call him differently because he gained a title recently or would calling him brother be alright, especially since they’re close and have nicknames as well?

And would they have to refer to him in different ways speaking to other people or their family? When was it alright to call him in a less formal way?

Thank you have a great day! 🌺🌺