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Catherine Joan (Waldenian: Katharina Johanna), the Princess Royal of Sutica and noblewoman of the House of Barclay, was Hereditary Princess of Savoy as the wife to the heir-presumptive Olivier Laurene de Savoie. During her tenure as consort to the future inheritor of the Southern realm, Catherine instrumented reforms to the South courts with the aid of her cabinet, The Princess of Merryweather and Joan of Alstion.
Childhood
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal as painted by the Reinmaren painter, Adelwulf van Thirne, on the year 1835.
Born at the halls of Osser, a holding of the Crown, in the Sutican isles, and baptized Katharina Johanna Magdalene, she was the eldest daughter to King Georg I and Queen Johanna I of Sutica. She held the titles of Princess of Sutica and Duchess in Merryweather by birth (since her mother was Princess of Merryweather as well as Queen of the Commonwealth) and Princess Royal upon being designated as such at her private baptism.
Catherine was raised mainly at the Royal Palace of Sutica but would often take recesses, alongside her twin brother, north to the Duchy of Reinmar, the holding of her paternal kinsmen. Unusual for a royal princess, Catherine grew up close to her parents, who were very religious. She was raised to be religious too, and was often taken to visit monasteries during her childhood. The Princess Royal received a formal education in literature, history, and linguistics. By the age of ten, she was fluent in Waldenian, Savinian, and Auvergnat, though lacked any sort of proficiency in the common tongue. In 1832, she lost her father who, unbeknownst to many, suffered of acute epilepsy. Upon the incitement of the Sutican Civil War, and the subsequent remarriage of her mother to the skilled [Franz de Sarkozy]] two years later, Catherine was ordered to take refuge in the North as a ward to Cardinal Reinmar until wartime subsided.
Childhood
Titles, Styles, and Honors
Titles and Styles
- 1824-1835: Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal
- 1835-1838: Her Royal Highness, Princess Catherine of Sutica, Countess of Sarissa
- 1838-Present: Her Serenity, The Hereditary Princess of Savoy and Countess of Sarissa
Issue
Name |
Birth |
Death |
Marriage |
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Lucien Aurele, Lord Brynnrose |
1st of The Sun's Smile, 1844 |
Alive |
Unwed |
Firstborn child of Olivier, Hereditary Prince and Catherine, Princess Royal. Upon birth made into Lord Brynnrose.
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