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LIFE AT COURT

Kensignworth Palace | Warchester

“Are you well Your Majesty?” Asked Victoria, Countess of Bute and the oldest daughter of the Queen, as she entered the room to sit with her mother.

Georgiana, the Queen, reclined in the armchair as though at leisure, “I live an easy life.” she quipped, and gestured for her daughter to sit with her. “They say you have left politics behind, is it true momma?”, almost with defeat or perhaps exhaustion the Queen laid down her letters and smiled. “They do my dear, they do. And to say I was almost enthusiastic to the presumption - “. Victoria was mortified to hear that, “Presumption?” with a sort of hope in her voice that of course it was just gossip and her mother would reassure her to that belief. “I pray you will not think badly of me, my dear, but indeed the presumption to abdicate.”

“ People have vilified you, and it has angered you?” She asked, referring to the statement of Michael Crowe and the support of his allies. Grasping her daughter‘s hands she made effort to ease Victoria‘s mind, even with a weak yet reassuring smile: “I have a secret, my dear. I pretend there is a pane of glass between me and them, they can see me but they cannot reach me.”. It was not exactly the most desired of response Victoria hoped for, not so much because of the words but the warmth that had been with her mother all day seemed to have evaporated, as the Queen retreated into her somewhat regal cool reserve. Victoria’s head fell from disappointment, knowing only too well not to press her mother for sentiment when her commitment is to upholding her coronation oath. “I do wish they would not be too hard on you, momma. It is but only a fulfilment of you duty.”

A glance was passed between them and Victoria knew it not wise to proceed as hoped, instead she interjected that moment with: “Your Majesty.”. Georgiana arose out of her seat, not like a mother in the company of her child, but a sovereign in the presence of subjects. “Victoria, equip yourself with patience, fortitude, and resignation, the storm will pass and you will see what terrible fuss indeed you make.”. Victoria knew she would encounter the wall and marked her defeat with a gracious nod.

“Do not recoil yet, Victoria, we have the debutantes at Court to look forward to.” An expression of sarcasm rarely expressed by the Queen, an expression unheard of in the public domain. For Georgiana the over hanging headlines of controversy and contempt from the left brought little bother to her thoughts, but instead had a way of luring the anxious undesirables of her family to her with intent to press these annoyances further into the mind of the Queen. She had always wished that her children would have been encouraged by their grandfather, her father, the late Edward II, to find themselves reinforced by God and their lineage.

The confidence of the Queen to this new age, this 21st century, is slowly but surely being eroded away. The modern age, the revolutionary age has many in the media in the Free Cities Union dubbed it, originally appalled her as the idea of social etiquette and protocol would be awash with revolutionary ideals. The Queen managed to find her confidence as the rather radical terminology proved hollow, but now she finds that she may have cause to despair, if only because, as she puts it, her children ‘are forgetting themselves and their birth’.

The Lady at the Chamber, for Victoria, called: “Lady Victoria, Countess of Bute, Her Grace the Duchess of Salisbury is on the phone.” . The Queen seized on the moment and swiftly directed her daughter to not keep the Duchess on hold for long, and to allow herself to escape the company of defeat.
[[OOC: This is just a general, no storyline, role play displaying the various members of the Court and it's proceedings as they go on.]]
 
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