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'''Princess Amélie of Lewes''' (''1846 - 1863'') was the firstborn daughter and secondborn child to Prince [[Leufroy Renault Denis|Leufroy Renault]], son of [[Olivier I, Prince of Savoy|Olivier I of Savoy]], and his wife [[Caterina Louisa Helane|Caterina Helane]]. During her childhood in the Principality, she was said to have been affectionate and adoring to her family and friends. The comital family of Lewes was exiled and sought refuge in the Orenian capital of [[Providence]] following Leufroy's attempted coup of the throne and later disappearance.  
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'''Princess Amélie of Lewes''' ([[Duchy of Savoy (Vailor)|Savoyard]]: ''Amelia Lucinda'') was the firstborn daughter and secondborn child to Prince [[Leufroy Renault Denis|Leufroy Renault]], son of [[Olivier I, Prince of Savoy|Olivier I of Savoy]], and his wife [[Caterina Louisa Helane|Caterina Helane]]. During her childhood in the Principality, she was said to have been affectionate and adoring to her family and friends. The comital family of Lewes was exiled and sought refuge in the Orenian capital of [[Providence]] following Leufroy's attempted coup of the throne and later disappearance.  
  
 
==Early Life==
 
==Early Life==
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'''Juliya Rose''' was born beside her twin brother, Darius Basrid, on the 23rd of Sun's Smile, 1808, in the Orenian capital city of [[Providence]]. Her earliest years were spent in the Imperial apartment belonging to her family, plans for the construction of Susa having only just begun, and so education was always a primary factor - especially in her father's speciality of reading and writing. Even in these years where toys were Juliya's most important companion, she was still able to recognize the abundance of vast stories, art, and poetry that seemed to encompass her everyday life and it was only sure to follow her into adolescence.  
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Born '''Amélie Lucinde Ashford de Savoie-Lewes''', her childhood was especially fruitful for a girl of her age. She adored her family and was more often than not seen playing with her many cousins or siblings around the capital  or in the Palazzo Algradé. Once, her mother recalled in a letter surfaced from the ruins of Savoy, the princess Amélie lead her cousin [[Carolina of Savoy]] into the vineyards to play only for the entirety of the court children to be found with them later that eve.
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[[File:lucinde3.PNG|thumb|left|200px|''Amélie pictured on her eighth nameday (c. 1855)'']]
  
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While she was known to shy away from large gatherings as a child, these years are where she met her lifelong friends Maude Fitzpeter and [[Wilhelm Lucius, Baron of Carrington]]. As she grew, so did the new generation of Orenian children and Juliya proved to be quite the paragon likely due to her esthetic interests and new-found confidence aided by her growing friendship with the children of the court.
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She was a ward to the Princess of Savoy, [[Catherine of Sutica]], and was highly educated alongside her mainline cousins by various nannies and teachers. By the age of fourteen, two years before her passing, Amélie was fluent in common, Waldenian, Savinian, Auvergnian,  Illatian, and was studying High Imperial or 'Flexio'. Alongside language studies, she was also taught etiquette, needlework, and ballet, the latter of which she was remarked to have excelled.  
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[[File:juliya12.png|thumb|left|200px|''Juliya Rose of Susa aged 12. (c. 1820)'']]
 
  
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Her summers were often spent in the countryside estate of her grandmother, [[Elizabeth, Princess Imperial|Elizabeth Anne]] - namely Rosemoor. That is where she grew close to her father's side of the family. While she was never close to her mother she, too, did make an effort to befriend her maternal cousins, aunties and uncles alike. It was during these few annual months where her love for literature soared and Juliya grew rather fond of Rosemoor as not only the source of her early creativity but as the embodiment of a modern woman, helped forth by the [[Elizabeth, Princess Imperial|Princess Imperial]] herself as Juliya found herself fascinated by the teachings of her.
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===Exile from Savoy===
  
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Growing prone to romanticizing the world around her, the Spring of 1822 was an especially productive one for the nearing-adolescent Basrid. Her love for reading became a love for writing and, under the tuition of [[Maisie of Sunholdt|Maisie Adelheid d'Arkent]], she began to practice and write Poetry of her own. She also undertook harp lessons, though she was unable to name herself fluent till much later in her teenage years.  
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The comital family of Lewes were forced to flee the country and instead seek refuge in Oren following Leufroy's attempted coup of the Savoyard throne from his brother and his disappearance that followed. Amélie continued wardship under Catherine via letters though it fell through after a while.
  
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== Marriage ==
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==Adolescence==
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The move to a foreign court proved excruciatingly difficult for the young Savoyard princess, and she was quite swiftly regarded as haughty by a number of Orenian courtiers due to her withdrawn nature and general distaste for the country as opposed to her own. She had little friends besides her siblings, and the family lived in a humble house along the canal bank. Meeting her cousins was as infrequent as ever despite their growing attendance in the Orenian court, and it was only through a brief reunion between Carolina and herself that she was informed of Princess Catherine's murder earlier that year.
  
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Amidst the season of the time rumours began to float around that Juliya and one Aldersbergian prince, namely George Alexander, were caught seeming rather intimate in the Augustine gardens just months after it was published in Petite Potins, [https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/203517-petite-potins-trouble-in-paradise/?tab=comments#comment-1852850] a gossip paper at the time, that the Lady Juliya had been spotted in a maze with the [[Wilhelm Lucius, Baron of Carrington|Baron of Carrington]]. Presumably to avoid further speculation, the two rushed into a privately-held ceremony of marriage [https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/203696-a-spring-tide-matrimony/?tab=comments#comment-1854021] admitting only dynasts of the houses of Aldersberg, Susa, Rosemoor, and Crestfall. Once such an occasion had concluded, Juliya of Susa became publicly known as the Princess George of Aldersberg.  
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Letters penned from Amélie to her missing father state that she loathed Oren and urged him to come home and fix his wrongdoings. It is unknown whether or not the princess had contact with the outlaw-prince of if her letters were a concoction of grief, etcetera.
  
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=== The Social Season of 1827 ===
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In her later life the princess was taken under apprenticeship via the illustrious Seamstress of Oren. A mere assistant, Amélie found the most joy out of pursuing her interest of fashion and regarded it as the "[...] peak of life as an Orenian citizen." Despite this she still refused to make nice with members of the court who disliked her, her stubbornness leading her to isolate herself further. The rest of her days were spent in the Seamstress' store on St. Tobias Ave or travelling in intervals back to her home country.
  
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After much of her childhood was spent anticipating it, her respective debut season was certainly momentous for the young woman Juliya had become by that very Spring. Having been a somewhat notable peer amidst the generation she had grown up with - Juliya, among a few other ladies, was thought to have been an exceptionally strong contender for the famous title of Ruby. At the debut itself Juliya wore a considerably simple white dress, though she adorned it generously with Rhenyari silks and jewellery. It was this very representation of the Rhen culture that thrusted her to the limelight and subsequently won the title of Ruby. [[File:juliya1.png|thumb|right|150px|''A popular caricature of Juliya at the time, painted by a young Eugenie Cecile, c.1827.'']]
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Her victory, however, did not come without controversy. It should be noted many at the time found the crowning of the Basrid to be utterly unjust considering the close relationship that she held with the Princess Imperial and many publications at the time were enthralled with heated debates of the matter. Said quarrels mostly fizzled out after a fair few months, though not before the infamous Garden Party hosted by the [[Amadea of Pompourelia|Countess of Renzfeld]] where attendees were shocked to witness a drink being spilt over the new Ruby in what many of Juliya's close confidants described as a 'fit of jealousy'.
 
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The remaining months of the season were well for the girl, including her first publishing of work titled 'The Countess' Croquet' [https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/203455-the-countess-croquet/?tab=comments#comment-1852437] said to be loosely based on the events of one croquet game that Spring.
 
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== As the Princess George ==
 
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Juliya fell pregnant half a year after the marriage had occurred and was recorded to have not been seen the entirety of her second or third trimesters, instead isolating herself up at Aldersberg out of apparent fears of excessive weight gain. Once the house announced the birth of the then grand-heir, the princess Juliya was not seen in public for a further six months, choosing instead to spend her postpartum period in the familiar [[Fakhr Emirate|Fakhr Oasis]]. After only a brief reintroduction to the courts and Imperial life Juliya set off again travelling for the ministry, making it a typical year to spend some months equally in the Fakhr Oasis, [[Yong Ping]] and Providence.
 
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This was somewhat criticized and seemed to create a strain on herself and her budding family as the years went on, and so with that surely in mind the princess returned to the Empire, taking a lengthy break from both the ministry and Imperial duties. During these years, Juliya raised her son and gave birth to two more children, both daughters.
 
  
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Throughout her life post-exile, Amélie was permitted to visit the country a number of times. With Leufroy presumed dead, the exile was eventually lifted for the remaining members of her family and thus trips of visitation occurred much more often for the princess. While some were to visit her family and friends, others simply were to bask in the Southern heat and comfortable surroundings. It was these trips, however, that would lead to her fateful demise.
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=== The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ===
 
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Said to have enrolled a mere month after her eighteenth birthday, Juliya spent a majority of her adult life employed under the foreign ministry and thus travelling to many nations across Almaris on behalf of the empire. In particular, she spent much of her time on excursions to both the Jade State of Yong Ping and the Fakhr Oasis - the latter of which she, somewhat controversially, had spent her postpartum period after giving birth to her first son, Edward.
 
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Shortly after the birth of her fifth and final child, Juliya once more retired from the public eye to spend her postpartum period away from stress and duty. Only this time, however, the Countess did not ever return from this state. Years passed by with utter silence from both the Imperial family and the direct Aldersbergian line, with the only acknowledgment to surface a mere spread of rumours regarding the unfortunate passing of Juliya's first daughter Georgiana. Several more years progressed before an official albeit brief statement was published by House Aldersberg stating only that the princess George had passed due to 'unforeseen circumstances'.
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During a two week trip to San Luciano, Amélie was caught completely by chance in the 1863 bombing of Savoy's capital city by off-shore mercenaries. Caught in the initial impact, bystanders that had witnessed the explosion rushed the princess, among many other dead and injured citizens, to aid outside the walls. While Amélie was not pronounced dead at the scene, she later passed bed-ridden in intensive care. Perhaps ironically, the hospital she passed at was in Oren, the place she favoured the least.
  
 
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|2= 2. Leufroy Renault, Count of Lewes
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|2= 2. [[Leufroy Renault Denis|Leufroy Renault, Count of Lewes]]
 
|3= 3. [[Caterina Louisa Helane]]
 
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|4= 4. [[Olivier I, Prince of Savoy]]
 
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|5= 5. Adeline of Rochefort
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|5= 5. [[Adeline of Rochefort]]
 
|6= 6. Lucius Maximus Helane
 
|6= 6. Lucius Maximus Helane
 
|7= 7. Georgiana Beatrix Novellen
 
|7= 7. Georgiana Beatrix Novellen
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|11= 11. Charlotte Rosamund Pruvia-Albarosa
 
|12= 12. Augustus Helane
 
|12= 12. Augustus Helane
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|13= 13. Wilhelmina Beatrix Helvets
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|13= 13. [[Wilhelmina of Cathalon]]
 
|14= 14. Joseph Leopold, Count of Aldersberg
 
|14= 14. Joseph Leopold, Count of Aldersberg
 
|15= 15. Henrietta Maria of Österland
 
|15= 15. Henrietta Maria of Österland
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|26= 26. Robert Castor, Duke of Cathalon
 
|26= 26. Robert Castor, Duke of Cathalon
 
|27= 27. Letizia Ashford de Aryn
 
|27= 27. Letizia Ashford de Aryn
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|28= 28. Joseph II, Holy Orenian Emperor
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|28= 28. [[Joseph II, Holy Orenian Emperor]]
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|29= 29. Anne I, Holy Orenian Empress
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|29= 29. [[Anne I, Holy Orenian Empress]]
 
|30= 30. Henry Louis, Count of Österland
 
|30= 30. Henry Louis, Count of Österland
 
|31= 31. Angelika Helena Ludovar
 
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Amélie of Lewes
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Amélie Lucinde aged sixteen, c.1863
Born: 9th of Godfrey's Triumph, 1846, San Luciano, Principality of Savoy
Died: 17th of The Deep Cold, 1863, Providence, Holy Orenian Empire
House: Savoie-Lewes
Father: Prince Leufroy, Count of Lewes
Mother: Caterina Louisa Helane

Princess Amélie of Lewes (Savoyard: Amelia Lucinda) was the firstborn daughter and secondborn child to Prince Leufroy Renault, son of Olivier I of Savoy, and his wife Caterina Helane. During her childhood in the Principality, she was said to have been affectionate and adoring to her family and friends. The comital family of Lewes was exiled and sought refuge in the Orenian capital of Providence following Leufroy's attempted coup of the throne and later disappearance.

Early Life

Born Amélie Lucinde Ashford de Savoie-Lewes, her childhood was especially fruitful for a girl of her age. She adored her family and was more often than not seen playing with her many cousins or siblings around the capital or in the Palazzo Algradé. Once, her mother recalled in a letter surfaced from the ruins of Savoy, the princess Amélie lead her cousin Carolina of Savoy into the vineyards to play only for the entirety of the court children to be found with them later that eve.

Amélie pictured on her eighth nameday (c. 1855)

She was a ward to the Princess of Savoy, Catherine of Sutica, and was highly educated alongside her mainline cousins by various nannies and teachers. By the age of fourteen, two years before her passing, Amélie was fluent in common, Waldenian, Savinian, Auvergnian, Illatian, and was studying High Imperial or 'Flexio'. Alongside language studies, she was also taught etiquette, needlework, and ballet, the latter of which she was remarked to have excelled.

Exile from Savoy

The comital family of Lewes were forced to flee the country and instead seek refuge in Oren following Leufroy's attempted coup of the Savoyard throne from his brother and his disappearance that followed. Amélie continued wardship under Catherine via letters though it fell through after a while.

Adolescence

The move to a foreign court proved excruciatingly difficult for the young Savoyard princess, and she was quite swiftly regarded as haughty by a number of Orenian courtiers due to her withdrawn nature and general distaste for the country as opposed to her own. She had little friends besides her siblings, and the family lived in a humble house along the canal bank. Meeting her cousins was as infrequent as ever despite their growing attendance in the Orenian court, and it was only through a brief reunion between Carolina and herself that she was informed of Princess Catherine's murder earlier that year.

Letters penned from Amélie to her missing father state that she loathed Oren and urged him to come home and fix his wrongdoings. It is unknown whether or not the princess had contact with the outlaw-prince of if her letters were a concoction of grief, etcetera.

In her later life the princess was taken under apprenticeship via the illustrious Seamstress of Oren. A mere assistant, Amélie found the most joy out of pursuing her interest of fashion and regarded it as the "[...] peak of life as an Orenian citizen." Despite this she still refused to make nice with members of the court who disliked her, her stubbornness leading her to isolate herself further. The rest of her days were spent in the Seamstress' store on St. Tobias Ave or travelling in intervals back to her home country.

Death

Throughout her life post-exile, Amélie was permitted to visit the country a number of times. With Leufroy presumed dead, the exile was eventually lifted for the remaining members of her family and thus trips of visitation occurred much more often for the princess. While some were to visit her family and friends, others simply were to bask in the Southern heat and comfortable surroundings. It was these trips, however, that would lead to her fateful demise.

During a two week trip to San Luciano, Amélie was caught completely by chance in the 1863 bombing of Savoy's capital city by off-shore mercenaries. Caught in the initial impact, bystanders that had witnessed the explosion rushed the princess, among many other dead and injured citizens, to aid outside the walls. While Amélie was not pronounced dead at the scene, she later passed bed-ridden in intensive care. Perhaps ironically, the hospital she passed at was in Oren, the place she favoured the least.

Titles and Styles

  • 1846 - present Her Highness, The Princess Amélie of Lewes



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