#theroyalsofcorrilea

Majesty Queen Anastaisa of Corrilea, 2010-

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This month marks five years of this account on Instagram and Tumblr. I want to thank all the people I have befriended, met and had the opportunity to collaberate with. I am extremely grateful to you all. While I am super busy with university (law degrees are not for the weak), I hope to return to this account and hope you will join me for the ride and (hopefully) many more years together.

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Dress by @warwickroyals

Hi!

I'm going to do Elissa, because I haven't done her yet and I’m working on my next story post that HEAVILY features my Queen:

Elissa really enjoys hosting parties. Like, she really, really enjoys them. She can't really throw the huge parties she used to be able to throw at her current residence (Lyne Priory), but as soon as Alice is done with school, she's packing up and moving into Landfarm so she can throw a proper party.

She's sort of suspected that something with Richard was kind of... off(?) while they were dating and then after Sophie was born, but she's never quite been able to put her finger on what exactly it is...

Elissa is very at home horseback riding. She rode competitively for a few years, and she won a couple of ribbons, but she mostly rode as a hobby and stopped because she just wasn’t feeling it anymore and also because Clara forced her too. She still rides (Dante, Duke of Angers and his wife are her riding buddies), but not as often. 

 Her favorite grandkid is Arielle. She loves all of her grandbabies, but she has a very soft spot for Arielle (mostly because her father is... a character) 

hi!! om im so late : ( thank you so much!!! here are five facts about lil gwen :3 up until she’s a child cos i don’t think i’ll show much of that !!!! 🥰

she doesnt like horses. NOW ! that was a personal attack to emis person. she thinks they’re TOO big and she accidentally saw footage of emi falling off her horse at seven years old so no thank u she will not ride a horse.

she tried to run away from her house when she was eight 🕴🏻 no comment on this one 🤠 only that she was caught.

she got a bean stuck on her nose when she was six bc gigi dared her to do it and it was a MESS ! with gigi laughing, gwen crying, emi and [redacted] panicking ........... 😶✋ more to add to her list of ‘things gigi did i will never forget’

she loves her little sister (not gigi the one after gigi) sooo MUCH !!!! also her lil brother. she always wanted a sibling that wouldnt nag at her while playing and she finally got one !! gigi who !!!!

The C-8 Alliance

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Simparthia, Vaestronia, Aldavia, Hohenwaldu, Corrilea, Simstanstasia, Silvis & Simsicily.

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Crown Prince David was born on this day in 1896

Mentions of War & Miscarriage

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When the new King, Frederick IX (b.1873) and his teenage wife, Princess Thyra of Denmark (b.1880) welcomed their first child on the 15th of April 1896, they had been married for just over 10 months. The baby was christened David Richard Christian Harald. During his childhood, the young prince became known as Dickie. The boy would become his Grandmother, the Dowager Queen Dagmar’s favourite grandchild,even after the birth of his siblings; Mary, Charlene and Christian with her writing “my beloved Dickie is so young yet a true lion at heart.”

At eighteen, the young prince’s life would be interrupted by the First World War, following his father's decision to side with their second cousin, Wilhelm II of Germany in 1914. During the war Dickie would be stationed in Berlin as the official representative of Corrilea to the Kaiser. His mother Dagmar-whom detested her German cousins failed to compel her husband to not send him, writing to her father, Frederik VIII of Denmark, “Berlin and this war will destroy my innocent boy.” In 1917, following the Russian Revolution, Frederick IX stopped supporting Germany out of fear , but his mothers worries would not be relieved, for after the war, Dickie would return changed, no longer lively and fun, but “hardened and self-righteous”.

In 1919, Dickie would meet a young, but successful Upsanian-born French-British actress, Nicola DuGant. The prince would immediately become infatuated by the beautiful woman, and quickly began courting her, despite the disapproval of his family- this would lead to tensions within the Royal household, as the young Prince seeked to defy his father and take control of his own life. In 1923, he would propose to Nicola without his fathers permission. This caused the tensions to boil over in the autumn of that year, when Dickie brought “his Nicky” to meet his family. During a heated exchange, the Crown Prince threatened to abdicate his position, in order to marry the woman he loved, only after hearing this, did the King relent and grant his approval, likely just to stop a succession crisis from occurring. The pair were wed in the spring of 1925. Nicola was the first “commoner” to marry into the Corrilean Royal Family.

Despite the marriage's scandalous start, the pair seemed happy together and in 1927 had a son, Prince George Frederick James (later James V). The new prince's birth was traumatic for the Crown Princess lasting for almost forty hours, with major complications and scarring after the prince was finally delivered via cesarean. As a result for the next decade the couple would experience fertility issues, with Nicola having 12 miscarriages, before the birth of their daughter, Princess Madelyn in 1940.

On the 14th of June 1930, King Frederick IX passed away at 57, after contracting pneumonia. Dickie was sworn in as King moments later, choosing the regnal name Richard II, quoting “The name Richard reminds the public of Lionheart, it is powerful, manly— David reminds them of my great-grandfather, whom never got to be King”. The King's inauguration took place on the 1st of January 1931.

Dickie would oversee Corrilea during the Second World War, choosing to have the nation be a neutral state. However in 1940, Corrilea’s neutrality was breached as Nazi forces invaded the border. The Royal Family and government quickly fled to Britain and established a Government-in-exile at the Corrilean Embassy, while the Family stayed as guests of King George VI of the United Kingdom and lived at St James Palace during the war. The Corrilean Royal Family however, were not unscathed during the war, with Princess Mary’s husband – Robert Argyll, 4th Duke of Argyll and son, George, Earl of Harewood both enlisting in the British army and being killed in action in 1942 and 1943 respectively.

After the Allies took back Corrilea in 1945, the Royal Family returned to mass celebration, and the King, who had given public radio addresses to his nation throughout the duration of the war, was considered a hero, who gave the people morale and a “reason to fight” during the five year Nazi occupation.

As such, the King remained a popular symbol of nationalism and hope for the next ten years, as the nation recovered. In 1953, his son the Crown Prince George would marry his favourite goddaughter, Princess Eliazbeth of Schleswig-Wolfenbüttel-Kassel (b.1936). The Princess, while German, was born and raised in Britain, as her parents fled Germany at the beginning of the war and thus, was considered a good match.

An avid smoker all his life, Richard II would pass away in 1956, of lung cancer. His daughter Madelyn, married in 1965, nine years later to the German Royal — Ludwig III, Duke of Thena. The wedding caused controversy, with many claiming that Richard would have never supported the match as Ludwig's parents were Nazi’s during the war.

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