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Maude, Princess Royal
Maude Fredericka of Oren.png
The Countess of Mardon c. 1891 by LadyRae.
Princess Royal
Tenure: 10th of Owyn's Flame, 1869-Present
Predecessor: Catherine, Princess Imperial (As Princess Imperial)
Successor: Incumbent
Born: 10th of Owyn's Flame, 1869
New Providence, Oren
Died: Alive
Spouse: Unwed
House: Novellen
Father: Frederick I, King of Oren
Mother: Vivienne of Savoy

Maude Fredericka Augusta Mary (High Imperial: Matildem Frederica Augusta Maria; 10 Owyn's Flame 1869 – 1 Present), sometimes referred to as Matilda Fredericka, was Princess Royal of the Kingdom of Oren as the eldest daughter to Frederick I, King of Oren and his Savoyard consort, Princess Vivienne Anastasie. In her early adulthood, the royal scion, stripped of her honors and land by the Harvest Revolution, became a member of the Old Regime in the Commonwealth of the Petra.

Birth

Maude Fredericka Augusta Mary of Oren was born in Aster Hall, New Providence on 10 Owyn's Flame 1869. She was the first surviving child of King Frederick I of Oren and his wife, Vivienne of Savoy, alongside her twin brother, Prince Frederick Aurelian. They were the last royals to be born in the city of New Providence. The circumstances surrounding her birth are considered dubious in the eyes of Orenian historians. Born just below five months premature, on the very same day that the blood rain that had been plaguing the Orenian capital had ceased and that the Canonist Basilica of the Argent Star had been decimated by Derfeyist Cultists, many at court held quiet beliefs that the young princess was cursed and would not survive her infancy.


For this reason, Maude was baptized on the same day as her birth by Adrian Helen de Sarkozy, Cardinal Albarosa. Her godfather was her uncle, Prince Lucien of Savoy. She was named after her father, her ancestress the Empress Anne, and the legendary Orenian figure Maude of Copper Court. Her fourth name, Mary, is disputed to have been chosen in honor of either Queen Mary of Lotharingia, a renowned stateswoman, or the progenitor of the Novellen line's mother and Duchess of Adria, Mariya of Hanseti-Ruska. She was bestowed the prestigious dignity of Princess Royal shortly thereafter, marking her tenure in the station as the first to be held by a dynast of the once Imperial and Royal House of Novellen.

Her father was reportedly overjoyed at her birth and declared himself to be as happy on the occasion as he would have been at the birth of a son. Although the King and Queen were young and prone to have more children, Queen Vivienne's difficulty to conceive again proved emotionally taxing for her. While Maude was the twin sister heiress-presumptive of the Crown, her mother did not pay her frequent visits and would have her upbrought by her governess, the middle-aged Mary Pontmercy-Talbot, in a traditionally masculine fashion. It was not until later, unlike the King, who consistently attended to his daughter, that the Queen would play an active role in the Princess Royal's education in ballet, etiquette, and statesmanship.


Youth

Her parents earlier worries would soon be dissipated; two years after her birth, the King and Queen her endowed with The Princess Maxima and both Maude and Frederick had since overcome the ailments of their childhood. Several children followed suit, and in total, Maude would be the eldest sibling to five younger siblings. She was notably closest to Princess Maxima who, in their youth, decisively adopted the role of being the Princess Royal's voice who had developed into a mute until she was nine, when courtiers had recounted that '"Her Royal Highness had become less withdrawn, and this is likely due to the assistance of her tutors, her confidants, and her dearest sister The Princess Maxima."'

Maude, Princess Royal and The Princess Maxima by Lady Rosina Helvets, 1879
  • relationships with siblings, friends (Mariana d'Azor, Darius Halcourt, Ludwig van Pruessens, Mathilde de Falstaff, Elia Colborn)
  • musical education beneath Bacchus
  • confinement during the rot of 1777-8
  • education while a student of Vienne Institute of Excellency
  • the coalition war

Adolescence

  • astercalia
  • the civil war
  • astercalian finale and capture

Titles, Styles, and Honors

Titles and Styles

  • 1869-Present: Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal
  • 1883-1884: Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal and Countess of Mardon
  • 1884-Present: The Countess of Mardon
  • 1891-Present: Her Highness Matilda, The Countess of Mardon

Full Address in Orenian Succession

Her Royal Highness The Princess Maude Fredericka Augusta Mary, Princess Royal of Oren, Renatus, Curon, Kaedrin, Salvus, and Seventis.