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(In the Style of) Andy Warhol,

Princess Lorraine of Iona Trial Proof 22/30, from Pretty Princesses, 1965 Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board Courtesy Funky L. Lama

I made these edits a few months ago and just now figured out the caption could be an ode to this post... bless my heart. Anyways, I styled this not after Warhol's Reigning Queens collection, but his Mao portrait(s). I may need to find more artists to style portraits after. Enjoy!

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"The Way We Were,"

If Lorraine had known the effect of her words, she might not have said them. Though, they would not have changed the outcome of her niece's happily ever after.

Act Three, Scene Twenty-Three: "The Way We Were." Last / Beginning / Next Transcript below the cut! @empiredesimparte and @nexility-sims for mention !! and dear @honeyjars-sims for helping work through my writer's block !!!

[Lorraine] Eloise, come sit with me.

[Lorraine] We were so angry at each other, for so long. And what did it do, really? She was my sister and I told her everything, we did everything together and when she left- I abandoned her. She lived a whole life without me, stewing; I blamed her.

[Lorraine] I cannot, Eloise, the way we were to each other wasn’t right, and I can’t have that again. I can’t live in anger and spite again.

[Lorraine] I know your family sucks, but when you love someone like you love Philippe, and your son, you need to live in service of it. 

[Lorraine] They are your family now, you’ve introduced them to the public as such. You must support him, fight for him, and he will give the same to you.

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What are the biggest ways Eloise has changed since we met her, and how do you think she's going to keep changing? 👀

Hello my friend!

Eloise's dealings in romance is the most obvious theme of the story, on a surface or new-reader level, her three relationships are what move the story along. But, I think there's more to telling her story than that. She's gone through a lot of grief that was, in a way, delayed until the events of the story. So much has happened within the span of about two years. Elle was privliged enough to have examples in two queens (Vivi and Hana) who taught with dignity, responsibility, and a good sense of leadership. However, their emotional baggage was so bottled and passed along that, in the time they had with her, it couldn't be effective. What she witnessed, really, was generational anger and grief at the cost of ones self, in Hana, Vivi, and Lorraine. She had learned that this was the Rodchester way of rule. In every act, though, those lessons came undone in a way that couldn't for any of her foremothers. In the first act she watched, as Viviane fell into her own past and as Arthur broke up with her. During the second, she took a more active role. Eloise trained, started working, and was apart of a situationship without attachment. She wasn't ready for what happened to her and Vivi, and just like her examples, Elle picked up her shit and carried on. In the third act, I think she did the most growing. She became a mother with righteous anger for the wrongs she percieved to have been done to her child. For a while, she was able to forgive and grow from Raheem and Violas debatable wrongdoings. As Queen, she was able to perform her duties with little change from the Status Quo, of course in the wave of nationalism that comes after horrible political violence aided in that, but it still wasn't easy. She had, like, four months of preperation while her simblr world co-workers are prepared from birth. I wish I would have focused more on the immediate aftermath. Though, the outcome would have been the same. When Eloise was at her lowest moment of private, even really from the audience, grief she trusted a man. Which isn't a mistake in and of itself, but by the time she learned his intentions it became one. When Elle was faced with this betrayal she turned inward, as she was taught. But of course it didn't work, this sort of self-sacrafice was eating her alive as it did to Vivi before her. Nothing Eloise was taught had worked for her and it may have taken a push from a very much involved outsider to realize that. Despite the story changing vastly from what I originally planned, her arc stayed the same. Eloise learned that what she and her foremothers were taught had irreparably harmed them and that if she wanted to grow, or forge a better path for herself and her future, she would need to make active and drastic change. In the end, Elle ensured Philippe's distressed loyalty to her and voiced her anger to the detriment of her close personal love and friendship, which she'd formerly held closest to herself. She's learning to value new, less personal, things between stories. For now, I can say that will manifest first in the reorganization of her council; she's no longer thinking as a successor, but as The Queen.

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The wedding of Princess Rose Mary,

to the 4th Count March, Josef Alexandre Bach, a renowned Ionian Journalist and her third-cousin once removed, was an extravagant affair. One which, put on full display for Europesim and the wider (now televised) world, highlighted the excess of the nobility, whose marginal tax bracket dropped from 80 to 50 percent in 1981 alone. The bright colors and fast moving fashion trends of the Late-Everette Era did not trickle down to the common Ionian. Instead, it drove a further wedge between the fast-growing Ionian Middle Class and its "Elected Representitives" in the Royal Family. The popularity boost from the nearly 5 million Euro event (funded by tax payers) died out almost as fast as the short-term effects of Simeaganomics.

(l-r, last picture): Princess Rose Mary, Countess March; Josef, the Count March; Frau Adrienne Wagner-Rodchester; Prince Arnaut of Uspana, Grand Duke Bergstrasse ( @nexility-sims ); Herr Paul Wagner-Rodchester; Princess Viviane of the Kingdom of Iona; Prince Stephen, the Grand Duke Helmstadt; Princess Lorraine, the Grand Duchess Bergstrasse.