PRINCESS CECILIA HENRIKSSON OF SWEDEN.
intro. appearance. musings. interactions.
BASTARD PRINCE NYMANDUS HARALD SVEND ATTERDAG OF DENMARK
intro. appearance. musings. interactions.
plot updates under the cut
ny eyefucks oli during the festival and then visits their quarters that night/ he's beginning to become fond of oli (will not admit it) but he knows if he worms his way into french political life, then he will be able to secure enough alliances to have denmark be seen as a legitimate royal house again.
meanwhile, oli and ny play a game of how many public spaces can we fuck without getting caught
during all of this cecilia is scheming. she's studied every single family on the journey there and picked her governess's brain. she knows her sister won't pull the right strings and she has her eyes on one person and one person only: the usurper to the austrian throne
HOWEVER then, at the festival, word reaches her that the bastard has been in talks with various diplomats at the availability of various princesses and neither her nor astrid's name came up. if sweden is going to land on a controversial and powerful throne, she needs to act quickly. she upsets several royals in the process to generate buzz
blocked. cecilia does not begrudge his claim for power, as the dutch have more to offer than the swedes, but now she has a new idea.
the bastard's claim to the throne is tenuous at best, but his brother is a natural-born heir within wedlock. if she can discredit him, then she can secure THAT throne, possibly marrying the prince for herself and ruling both sweden (from afar, by manipulating her sister) and austria, by making her new husband into a puppet king.
the thing is, cecilia has no idea how to act sweet, so cecilia needs allies.
meanwhile, ny is integrating himself into the dutch kingdom, with his current betrothed as the princess, all he needs are more allies to secure his throne, but he's going after the SAME people cecilia is, and there's no telling how this will shake out.
until cecilia learns that the betrothal her parents secured with the third prince of the netherlands, levi, is still valid and is being enforced by both of their courts, cecilia’s plans to betroth herself to the austrian prince crumble to pieces. she doesn’t hate levi, but she hates the situation and feels trapped. if she can’t be a queen, then what’s the point?
ny marries catharina hours after their first meeting in order to strengthen his position in court.














