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Would it be weird if concubines were friends with each other, especially if each of them have children? I imagine it would be more of a power struggle

Sometimes it was a battle royale, (Louis XIV is coined to have said that "it's easier to make peace in Europe than between women"). However some mistresses were on good terms. Nell Gwyn & Hortense Mancini were apparently chummy, with them often having tea together (one tea party resulted in Bell flashing the French Ambassador). In public. Mistresses should never fight because it soured relations between the King and them but they would often fight in private.

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What is the deference of a governess, nanny, and Tutor?

A governess is a noble woman employed to oversee the ramearing of a royal child. They are in charge of the household and servants.

Nannies (nursemaid) are more on hand with the child. Dressing and feeding them, walking them and keeping them entertained.

Tutors were teachers who would educate the child

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Would a monarch or noble ever get tired if going to parties? At somewhere like Versailles where something is always going on would people get sick of it? I'm just wondering what someone who had been at court for a while or their whole lives would feel about it. Like what would their attitude be like?

Absolutely, it's sometimes non stop. But as tired of it as they are, they have to stick it out if they're royal or noble. Nobles are expected to attend every party they are invited to, unless they are indisposed. For royals you can only slip away so many times.

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If we're talking about school play trauma boy do I have some. I signed up to do the musical when I was in sixth grade (it was The Castaways but I thought it was Cinderella) and I got a really bad part because I was 12 and couldn't sing or act or dance for shit, but I got to be on stage to sing in the big finale which excited me. Right at the big climax to the song, when everyone was supposed to lift their arms up above their head, I just freaking passed out. Right there on stage. I just collapsed into an overheating, dehydrated lump of shame and missed high notes. And the stage director (my science/homeroom teacher) just crawled out on stage and grabbed me by the wrist to drag me off and out of view. I woke up after a few seconds, but I had to go to the nurse and I missed my bow and it overall ruined my night.

Then, several weeks later we all had to watch a recording of the performance to see how we did. And I guess not everyone on stage had noticed I fainted because they all looked at me when it got to that part of the clip and I just wanted to DIE. We were all children and I guess some of them thought I did it on purpose? For attention? And so at least one person resented me for a solid three years. She dropped her grudge when I passed out again several years later in English class in front of her, though. Guess she realized I actually had a blood pressure issue instead of an attention issue.

The amount of times that one of us said to our teacher that we wanted to go home because we were sick and see denied us because we had rehearsal is astounding but I vividly remember one boy just going fine and puking over his costume in protest. He was a hero for days.

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How did blood feuds between noble or royal families work?

Blood feuds basically happened when one family directly or indirectly caused the death of a member of another family. These feuds often go no further than a strong dislike of the other but in times of chaos or under a weak ruler, they will nearly always end up clashing on opposite sides of a civil war or end up attacking each other out of revenge. A strong ruler would intercede and have them make a formal declaration of their forgiveness toward each other or stop them from fighting each other

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Hello again, here to ask another question about concubines/mistresses. Is it true that one of the ways a king/queen would get a concubine is because the concubine was sold to them and if so does the age not matter? (Example: sold when they're 12 or etc). I have one more question, i had also read somewhere that a concubine is given a new name when they become one

Not always. In some cultures, concubines are offered as gifts to the King/Sultan/Emperor/Prince by traders or even noble families such as Haskei Hurrem and Wu Zhetian in their times.

Yes, because 12 is far too young. 16 or seventeen were more acceptable ages because they were more likely to produce children and be able to handle to pressures of court life.

Sometimes. The Ottoman concubines were often given new Muslim names on arrival.

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Flower symbolism deserves to be loved, they can get oddly specific at times to. Like for instance, striped carnations symbolize A Regret That Love Cannot Be Shared.

Well I just add a flower arrangement in my WIP which just spells out, they gay so yes. Up Flower Symbolism

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A prince is chilling sitting under a tree and a noblewoman (which they know) passes riding by and stops. Assuming it's the first time they meet during the day, how would the greetings play out?

It's a curtsy and a "Your Royal Highness" from her and an appropriate greeting from the Prince. "My Lady/Your Grace" considering her title