#Genevieve Aillenette

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Queen Genevieve commissioned by the Duke of Fife in 1015

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Queen Genevieve, 1010

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Royal Consorts of Idealps

The 7 “modern” royal consorts of Idealps. The first three are the Empresses Celia, Mary Louisa Elizabeth, and Otehime. In the middle is the Prince Consort Benedict. And the final three are the Queens Genevieve, Noemie, and Camilla. These are coronation portraits and all are located together in the Palais Royale

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Queen Genevieve Aillenette nee Sauveterre

Genevieve Sauveterre, known as Eugenie by most of her intimates was born to two decently noble parents. At 2 she was engaged to marry the oldest son of Princess Cordelia-Mercedes under the belief that, although royal, the Prince Alistaire would not ascend to the throne. Until the age of 7 she was encouraged to have a liberal education with her targeted interest being art. When she was 7 her fiancé’s rank increased thus making her the fiancé of the heir apparent. After which her childhood went from happy an enjoyable to strict and controlling, with dominating and ambitious parents.

At 18 she decided to attend Bisous, to pursue her artistic dreams, and higher education regarding the field. At 21 she graduated, but could not become a certified artist due to her position as the future Crown Princess. In the 7th month of the year 1000 she married Alistaire, the Crown Prince.

It was not a harmonious marriage, the Crown Princess valued she independence, and had particularly bad blood with her mother in law the Queen. She lived in a completely different household from the royal family, only seeing her married family a handful of times throughout her 17 years of married life. Eugenie did not live without her fair share in scandals, breaking many court taboos, such as dressing inappropriately, painting figures in the nude and allegedly taking lovers which was a crime punishable by imprisonment. 

In 1005 she visited her married family and got into a bad argument with the Queen which resulted in her death 2 days later, making her the Queen Consort. Still Eugenie avoided her husband, managing to last 17 years into their marriage without consummation. As her tenure as Queen, she was outspoken about her contempt for both the royal family and the rules of life that were enforced in Idealps. A quote from one of her pamphlets about her married family read

“the entire family, and the entire country is corrupt. We praise upon how we are the richest, looking upon the other nations for not being as grand, when we both ignore the poor, and charge 5 times the amount they do in the other nations for a loaf of bread… the royals have no position other than being the perfect puppets of the state. They can not break free of tyrannical rules, that they do not favor. Had it been possible I would not be a queen. There are no tender or affectionate lives in the nation, everyone does as their laws command, with no change from the agonizing monotony. The former Queen in particular was weak the the chains that shackle her tightly to this country. My husband, the King, just as weak, he is the physical embodiment of all Royals, a corpse among us with no soul.”

In the end of her life due to pressure she did consummate her marriage, resulting  in her pregnancy. At 38 years old in the year 1017 she passed away giving birth to her only child, a son named after his father, the future King of Idealps. Her philosophical ideas would be shared with both of her grandchildren, who would go on to repopularize her works.