SimaBloom

Qinghai Palace, 1627

Eunuch [runs in]: Master Zhiyuan! Third Madam Shu is pregnant!

[Master Zhiyuan looks up]

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Third Madam Shu [giggling]: Zhiyuan! Put me down!

Master Zhiyuan [smiling]: You have made me the happiest man alive!

Third Madam Shu [playfully]: Oh really? How so?

Master Zhiyuan: By carrying my child. A son. A daughter. It does not matter. I love you Shu and this child will represent our love for one another.

Third Madam Shu [melting]: Oh Zhiyuan, I love you so much.

Great Madam Wentian [suddenly]: It seems his grace has beaten me to offering congratulations on the joyous news.

Great Madam Wentian [happily]: We are surely blessed Third Madam Shu to both be pregnant and give his grace strong and healthy children.

a pelisse with fur trims! for your very chilly regency ladies during winter.

dress overlay:

teen-elder

feminine

fullbody

41 swatches

base game compatible

custom thumbnail

+ribbon overlay with 41 swatches (middle finger right)

+fur overlay with 11 swatches (middle finger left)

in game without acc or reshade:

Celestial City, 1635

Noble Lady Qiao: Your highness, won’t it bring... issues to have Noble Lady Fei live at Jinfang Palace.

Noble Consort Nian: I understand your concern Qiao, but it is wiser to keep that scoundrel within my sight.

Noble Consort Nian: My father may have cast me aside, but he taught me well, keep one’s enemies close. Now I just need to work on the next phase of my plan.

Noble Lady Qiao: What is that, your highness?

Noble Consort Nian [bluntly]: Gaining his Majesty’s favor.

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Dawn: Be careful my lady, we are almost to Jinfang Palace.

1852 saw the engagements of two granddaughters of the late Tsar Alexey Grigoryevich in rapid succession.

Jekaterina Jurjewna had been considered as a bride for Prince Lambert of K........ when he met the young Princess Dorothea by I........ and insisted he would marry "her or no-one". His cousin Prince Leopold was thus sent to sort things out with Jekaterina's family, and soon proposed marriage to her himself. The two of them were considered the only happy marriage among the royal family of K........, within which they took a central position as eminence grisée especially after the ascension of Leopold's nephew Heinrich at just 21.

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Thanks for @simming-in-the-rain and River (I don't know their simblr if they have one) for planning the old Riviera history! Lorenzo was born in 1800 as the heir to the Duchy of Riviera to his father the Duke Umberto. and his Mother Maria Cristina. The Prince of Riviera married Olga Yurievskaya in 1826 of the famous ruling dynasty of Chelyabinsk who then got baptised as a Catholic and took on the name Constanza. The unusally happy and loving marriage brought the royal couple 6 children.

After his ascension to the throne after his father's death in 1830, Lorenzo managed to bring peace and order to the northern italian lands and integrated Liguria to the realm in just his sixth year as the Duke. The north italian unification thus lead to the proclamation of the Grand Duchy of Riviera in 1836.

His reign is remembered in Riviera as the glorious founding years that brought immense wealth to the country and established Riviera as a major regional power and the unofficial leading force of the italian lands.

As a bonus pic: a "painted" version of the portrait

Kia Palace, Opheros — June 9th 1823

Isadora [worriedly]: How is he doing? Why is he not waking up? What is the cause of this?

Doctor: The illness his Majesty has is still unknown, your Majesty. We are doing our best to diagnose and treat.

Lady Teela [interrupts]: Your Majesty, members of parliament are here requesting an audience with you.

Isadora [frustrated]: Don’t they know that I am busy concerning my husband’s health and well being!

Lady Teela: I understand your Majesty. Yet, with the King in poor health and the Crown Princess not yet of age, the duty of leading the nation falls onto you.

Isadora: I see.

Everyone [bowing]: Greetings your Majesty!

Prime Minister Butler: Your Majesty, we beg your pardon for our sudden visit. I and other members of the parliament came at once upon hearing of His Majesty’s ill health.

Prime Minister Butler: We are also here, your Majesty, on account of the pressing need to discuss the agreements reached following the successful alliance meeting.

Isadora: Yes, of course.