Simming in the rain

Wcif-friendly, wannabe historical simmer currently playing the decades challenge. Also will be posting general historical gameplay.

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Katherina Marghareta of K--------, 1781

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Decorative lacing overlay

-to be used with @theroyalthornoliachronicles's Robe de Juliette

-found in tights

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Portrait of a lady as Diana, goddess of the hunt, early 18th century. Art historical museum of W---------

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Grand Princess Natalia Petrowna, later Hereditary Princess of B----------S----. by the window of her sitting room, ca. 1852

her 🥺

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10 people I'd like to know better

thank you for the tag, @florians-simblr

Favorite color: Navy, always

Last song: Where have all the flowers gone (Hannes Wader cover). (spent so long on this it is now Joan Baez's Honest Lullaby )

Currently watching: I don't really watch much but technically I still haven't finished the crappy August the Strong miniseries (anyone want my hate-watch thoughts?)

Sweet, savoury, or sour: sweet

Currently reading: mostly academia stuff. recently finished The Baron's sons, thinking I'll read some Stefan Zweig next

Current obsession: kind of in a tired trot currently, but historical homoeroticism I guess. Freundschaftskult

Last Google search: Stellwerk english (apparently signal box)

Currently working on: Academia stuff. When will it ever end. I hate linguistics (apologies to any linguists out there), I hate the middle ages and most of all I hate writing

tagging @crownsofesha, @simabloom, @nidosims, @funkyllama, @starlightpixels, @royaltysimblr, @simstomaggie, @antiquatedplumbobs, @chere-indolente-plays, @theroyalthornoliachronicles

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I am, as the kids say, cooking

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otd in history, march 5th 1774, Princess Karoline Sophie of K--------, later Duchess of R--------, was born to hereditary prince Stefan Johan of K-------- and his wife Margerita Sofia of T------.

Line, as her family affectionately called her, enjoyed a charmed but sheltered childhood and grew up into a quiet, studious and religious young woman.

Though she had long been intended to marry Prince Ulrich of D-------, the nephew and heir presumptive to her aunt's husband ( @crownsofesha), these plans were abandoned when her health worsened drastically following the death of her beloved father in 1794. It seems her family had little hope of her marrying afterwards, as she was discussed as a potential successor to another aunt as Abbess of F------.

Nonetheless in 1796 she was married to Prince Octavius, Duke of R--------, a younger brother of the king of W--------- ( @royaltysimblr). The marriage, which neither of them had wanted, was unhappy from the beginning- too different were their characters, views and habits. Karoline devoted herself wholly to the education of their three children for the high office in store for them, a path on which she continued undeterred after her husband's death.

Her ambition paid off when her son George became King George ii of W--------- in 1817, however her triumph was as shortlived as her sons. In 1822 her only remaining child Mary ascended the throne and refused to have anything to do with her. Though they reconciled eventually the days of Karoline's political influence in W--------- were over.

When the Jacoban elder line of K-------- died out in the male line with the death of her eldest brother in 1832 Karoline was chief among the K--------er princesses unsuccessfully lobbying against the succession of the Peteran sideline.

The last decades of her life were spent quietly devoted to her family and religion.

[ms-celiophane]

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I have been silent for too long

Sorry, but she would not get married in white

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justice for the plain black sunday's dress

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I have been silent for too long

Sorry, but she would not get married in white

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OTD in history, 09 February, 1853, Prince Leopold the younger of K........ and Grand Princess Jekaterina Jurjewna as well as Hereditary Prince Klaudius of B.........-S.... and Grand Princess Natalia Petrowna married in a double wedding in C........ .

1852 saw the engagements of two granddaughters of the late Tsar Alexey Grigoryevich in rapid succession.

Jekaterina Jurjewna had been considered as a bride for Prince Lambert of K........ when he met the young Princess Dorothea by I........ and insisted he would marry "her or no-one". His cousin Prince Leopold was thus sent to sort things out with Jekaterina's family, and soon proposed marriage to her himself. The two of them were considered the only happy marriage among the royal family of K........, within which they took a central position as eminence grisée especially after the ascension of Leopold's nephew Heinrich at just 21.

The young hereditary Prince of B.........S.... had arrived at court in search of a wife. While he had set his sight on the Tsar's youngest daughter Odetta Dimitriewna, he had little success with her, and she was all too happy to leave him to be comforted by her cousin Natalia Petrowna, who accepted him, eager to leave her unhappy life in C.......... behind. Their marriage was a complicated one; both fiercely ambitious and set in their way they often clashed against each other, but also supported each other through their hardships.

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ogs will remember (pt 1)

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WCIF that moon pose? That picture is so stunning.

thank you, thank you! You can find it here : )

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“Same procedure as last year, Miss Sofie?”

“Same procedure as every year“

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It’s that time of the year 

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It’s the season once again!