The Romeo & Juliette Story

(Year 235, Summer) You probably heard about this couple and their romance. But do you actually know how the story goes? Why they ran away, where they went - and not the least - why did they return to the neighborhood they once escaped from to protect their true love? It's time for an update!

Juliette (Capp) Monty (58) and Romeo Monty (58) arranged a chat session with us in their lovely home at Bellacorde, region Tredony. Back then, this house was the home of House de Monty, while Juliette grew up not so far away.

- House de Monty is just a bit more than a century old, not as old as House de Capp, and we never held a barony, Romeo explains. - My older brother Mercutio was raised to lead the House into the future. Our father was long gone, so Mr Mercutio actually took over at the young age of 16, probably assisted by our mother.

Royal estates - leaked notes!

(Year 235, Summer) Internal note from the Royal Palace Office (RPO) was leaked, possibly by a palace staff member (rumored to be the fired House Maid Elisabeth Lunvik, but not confirmed). Although the note is not dated, it is of interest as it shows how the numerous royal estates might be occupied over the coming years.

Who's gonna reside at Hafen Herrenhaus?

And, perhaps of even bigger interest, it suggests that some of the current royal caretakers might be asked to move out!

Weddings Galore

(Year 235, Summer) We have so many weddings these days, that Church of Similius had to restrict the frequency of wedding ceremonies in their five churches: Only one wedding per seasons Spring, Summer and Fall per church. This year all churches were booked for Summer, and several outdoor venues were used as well.

Meadows parish

Let's start with the Meadows parish, where some well known residents gave their woes.

Ms Valeria Phlum and Baron Rainert of Myshuno were married in Gloom Church.

The wedding getting the most attention this year, was Baron Rainert of Myshuno (33) finally getting married. The bride was Ms Valeria Phlum (32), also from San Myshuno. The two met at the private Mossy Lane dorm while getting their University degees. Valeria is already a doctor, just like her mother, and she is also known from Ice Skating where she won medals five times, winning gold 6 years ago as her best achievement.

New Photo of the Royal Family

(Year 235, Summer) The Royal Palace Office has shared a new family photo, showing His Majesty and the Queen with all their four children. This time there's no gown and tiara involved, but it's been a while since we saw a group photo featuring them all.

Left to right: Prince Marcuz (20), Prince Cecil (20), Queen Venezia (59), King
Tarriot (67), Crown Princess Emireza (24), and Prince Bazillimus (22).

The photo was taken in the lovely King's Tea Salon, the room where the royal family gathers on Constitution Day, connected to the palace's main balcoony where they pop out to wave to the cheering crowds. This time it was an internal gathering where the birthdays of all three princes were celebrated. There's no information on the full giest list, only that it was a moderate and informal party with only the close family and maybe a couple friends, too, eating and mingling.

The Flock Project

(Year 235, Summer) There's been quite some fuss regarding the scientic Flock People project, since a royal palace staff member was fired for joining the project by getting pregnant, without informing her employer. Some time back another female resident at Willow Field in Gloomville gave birth to the first Flock baby. So what is next? Is this project still fully covered by science?

Illustrations created to document the unique looks of the now dead Flock man.

When the last known Humperton Flock was found dying, Landgraab Science Lab in Oasis Springs kept the body under observation. The project was kept secret until they managed to create a new Flock baby, carried out by Edith Mox, leader of the Save the Flock People organisation. The Flock People has their roots at Willow Field in Gloomville, but was scared away decades ago when the willow forest was cut down.

University Graduatees

(Year 235, Summer) The first member of the current generation of growing up royals got their degrees! There will be plenty more over the next few years, but today the attention goes to HH Princess Evendice alone.

Graduatees: Mr Robin Hump, HH Princess Evendice, and Mr John Phlum.
Right/back is Duke Jarret of Rossie, who is Patron for University of Britechester.

The obligatory photo session took place at University of Britechester, where she studied for 3 years. Students normally spend 4 years on their degree, but royals (and a few high nobility Houses) follow a fast track focusing on a total of 4 classes every term. This gives less room for joing all the fun student activities, but saves them a full year.

Royal Court Line-up includes Surprise

(Year 235, Summer) At the closing session of this year's Great Mazaloom Simposium, taking place at Hotel Lykke in Windenburg, HRM King Tarriot revealed the line-up for the Royal Court. Court won't take place until 1st Day of Winter (aka Investiture Day), but according to traditions the line-up must be announced not less than 6 months earlier, gioving the aristotical community a chance to react in case of shady inheritance etc. These days this is not really needed, but back in the previous eras there could be more conflicts and less transperancy.

While the announcement is a pretty regular thing with few reasons to even raise an eyebrow, this time was different. The audience was left with huge questionmarks on their faces.

Royal Approval for PM Dougham

(Year 235, Spring) A new Prime Minister will traditionally get an audience with His Majesty before the new People Chamber opens, but this time the procedure was slightly postponed for last week of Spring. It's a simple meeting, isolated from all he functionality of People Chamber, but needs to take place according to stately protocol.

Mr Charloman C. Dougham (62) finally got his audience, and following tradition his wife, Mrs Corinne Dougham Mester Crestville (71) joined.

Palace Employee Lunvik was fired!

(Year 235, Spring) Yesterday morning the Royal Palace Office (RPO) had announced that their press meeting would address the issue involving the surprise prenancy of a Palace employee. It's of course an internal matter, but the press has been speculating a lot as the father of the unborn baby had not been confirmed. Was it another palace staff member? Or could it be one of the three princes, although none of them reside at he royal palace currently. One newspaper even suggested that HRM King Tarriot could be involved, as long as it was not officially denied.

So, there was no other option for the Palace Chief Attendant Ms Patricia Maiden (54), than to addreess the rumors. And so she did! At first there was total silence in the press room, but then the room bursted when all attending journalists shouted their questions simultaneously!

Gossips #20

(Year 235, Spring) Hello again! Welcome to my 20th issue with gossips from all over the nation! So much is going on, I simply had to get some more Spring rumors off my chest now that we enter the social season of Summer!

Grab your favorite nectar and join me!

As usual, we'll start with the royals!

Exhibition: Exclusive Carpets

(Year 235, Spring) This weekend a different exhibition could be visited at the Kasbah Gallery in San Myshuno. A total of 18 exclusive Victorian carpets could be admired, and high society was not hard to attract.

The rugs, all of perfect quality, share a story that might place them in our history book. They were crafted for the Year 150 coronation of King Tybe, and left Victoriania. Unfortunately cargo got lost in storage, and that's where the story ends. Nobody knows for sure how it could happen, and where the container spent the next 84 years. Last year the rugs were discovered and continued their travel to Mazaloom.

Top 10 announcement event at Moon Books

(Year 235, Spring) This Saturday the annual event for Authors took place at Orchid A Go Go where Moon Books has their book store as well as other fascilities related to literature. This night the fresh Top 10 list based on Year 234 sales was released, and also a couple new Year 235 releases were announced.

Octavia Moon (54) is a global star, known for several well selling novels and other genres, no longer writing lyrics for her husband Thorne Bailey. Moon Books is her heart child, and every Spring she gathers the Authors who signed with Moon Books.