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STATE VISIT BY THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF JAPAN Tuesday 25th - Thursday 27th June 2024

Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan will pay a State Visit to the United Kingdom as guests of His Majesty The King from Tuesday 25th to Thursday 27th June 2024.

Their Majesties The King and Queen will host the State Visit at Buckingham Palace.

STATE VISIT PROGRAMME:

SATURDAY 22nd JUNE • The Emperor and Empress of Japan will arrive privately in the United Kingdom on the afternoon of Saturday 22nd June at Stansted Airport. • Their Majesties will be greeted by His Excellency Mr Hajime Hayashi, Ambassador of Japan. The Viscount Brookeborough KG, Lord-in-Waiting, will greet Their Majesties on behalf of The King.

SUNDAY 23rd JUNE AND MONDAY 24TH JUNE • Before the State Visit formally commences, the Emperor will conduct a private programme of engagements, including a visit to Japan House and the Thames Barrier.

TUESDAY 25th JUNE • His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales will greet the Emperor and Empress of Japan, at their hotel, on behalf of The King on Tuesday morning. • His Royal Highness will travel with the Emperor and Empress to Horse Guards Parade, where Their Majesties will receive a Ceremonial Welcome. • The King and Queen will formally welcome the Emperor and Empress at the Royal Pavilion on Horse Guards Parade. Presentations will be made, the Guard of Honour will give a Royal Salute and the Japanese National Anthem will be played. • The King and Queen will formally welcome the Emperor and Empress at the Royal Pavilion on Horse Guards Parade. Presentations will be made, the Guard of Honour will give a Royal Salute and the Japanese National Anthem will be played. • The Emperor, accompanied by The King, will then inspect the Guard of Honour, formed of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards with the Band of the Welsh Guards. Afterwards, the Emperor and Empress will join The King and Queen, and The Prince of Wales, in a carriage procession along The Mall to Buckingham Palace, where they will be met by a second Guard of Honour formed of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards. • Following a lunch at Buckingham Palace, given by The King, His Majesty will invite the Emperor and Empress to view a special exhibition in the Picture Gallery of items from the Royal Collection relating to Japan. • In the afternoon, the Emperor and Empress will visit Westminster Abbey, where the Emperor will lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior. Their Majesties will take a tour of the Abbey, accompanied by the Dean of Westminster. • In the evening, The King, accompanied by The Queen and Members of the Royal Family, will give a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace for The Emperor and Empress of Japan. Speeches will be made by The King and the Emperor at the beginning of the banquet.

WEDNESDAY 26th JUNE • The Emperor will visit The Francis Crick Institute, the UK's flagship biomedical research centre. The Institute supports an innovative UK-Japan research partnership which covers a range of public health issues, including cancer, vaccines, and the role of genetics in infectious diseases. • That evening, The Emperor of Japan, joined by Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, will attend a Banquet at the Guildhall given by the Lord Mayor and City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor and The Emperor will both make speeches at the end of the banquet.

THURSDAY 27th JUNE • The Emperor and Empress of Japan will formally bid farewell to The King and Queen at Buckingham Palace on the morning of the final day of the official State Visit programme. • The Emperor and Empress will travel to Young V&A, part of the V&A family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity around the world, where the museum's Japan: Myths to Manga exhibition is currently on display. • The Emperor will privately visit St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, to lay a wreath on the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II, in the King George VI Chapel. The Garter Banners of the current members of the Order of the Garter, including the banner belonging to • His Majesty's father, Emperor Emeritus Akihito, are displayed in the Quire of St. George's Chapel. • Later that afternoon, His Majesty the Emperor will tour the historic Temperate House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Millennium Seed Bank, coordinated by Kew is the world's largest collection of over 2.4 billion wild plant seeds spanning 97 countries, preserving Japanese and international biodiversity. Bronze Bonsai sculptures by artist Marc Quinn are currently displayed in the Temperate House, surrounded by a display of Bonsai trees from Kew's collection.

FRIDAY 28th JUNE • On their final day in the UK, The Emperor and Empress of Japan will visit Oxford for a private programme of engagements including a visit to the colleges where Their Majesties studied. • At the conclusion of the visit, The Lord Chamberlain will bid farewell to the Emperor and Empress on behalf of The King, before they depart from RAF Brize Norton.

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Good Omens London Trip 🐍💞🪽

It's my Birthday today and I treated myself to a trip to London last weekend to see my favourite actor Michael Sheen in Nye at the National Theatre. I made the most of my weekend by combining it with a Good Omens filming location self-tour and I'd love to share it with you all. So, are you ready for the tour?

Here we go!

Starting off with Soho, and the inspiration for Whickber Street, where Aziraphale's bookshop, Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death, The Small Back Room, and the Dirty Donkey are located.

It’s Berwick Street and a record shop that is very similar in shape to A.Z Fell & Co. Bonus points for spotting Duck Lane!

Next is Berkeley Square, a short walk from Soho. The first two photos are of the real Berkeley Square gardens in Mayfair, and the last two photos were taken in the filming location of Tavistock Square across the other side of central London near Kings Cross. I’m sitting on their ‘body swap’ bench in the last photo!

As you can see, the benches are turned around facing inwards now but are the other way, facing outwards in Good Omens.

Oh, and I can confirm that there were no nightingales singing in either location 😭

Heading up the road a few minutes from Tavistock Square to The Enterprise pub where I met a fellow fan who kindly took photos of me posing (I bet the staff thought we were off our rockers!). This is where Crowley drowns his sorrows in Talisker Whisky whilst waiting for the world to end after thinking he'd lost Aziraphale. Omg that poor poor demon, he was really just gonna die along with the world.

Also, one of my favourite moments of season 1 is Crolwey's line: "I heard that. It was the wiggle-on..." then shrugs. 😆 So many emotions in such short a time.

Onto the Ritz. The first two photos are of the real Ritz (a stone's throw from Berkeley Square) and the last one is inside Masala Zone in Piccadilly Circus where the ‘Quite extraordinary amounts of alcohol’ and ‘To the World’ scenes were filmed.

I ate in here alone to get the photo and was so lucky with the table I was given! Perfect discreet snap whilst eating my curry! Haha!

Next up is Battersea Park and the Bandstand. It was a bit of a faff to get there, it's an 8-minute walk from the Battersea Power Station underground and we walked the full length of the park to find the Bandstand, but it was so worth it.

Also filmed here was Gabriel and Aziraphale’s run/jog. Poor Angel is soft scene.

The trees were a little leafier with it being mid-May and the park was very busy because the weather was glorious. They also have a beautiful lake here with herons!

The Heaven & Hell staircase escalators are right over the east side of London in Broadgate Tower, Bishopsgate. I got the overground to Liverpool Street station to get there. It is in a private business building so I politely/awkwardly asked the receptionist if I could take a photo and had to explain about the scene from Good Omens… eek! But he kindly let me snap a photo anyway! (Phew)

The Windmill Theatre was three minutes away from my hotel in Piccadilly Circus, so I wandered up the road to take a photo of where Aziraphale ‘performed on the West End stage’ as Fell the Marvelous. And wasn’t he just?

The scenes weren't filmed here but it was fun to find it anyway.

St James’s Park is up next! I sat on their bench and got my friend to take photos of me posing and had fun editing the first photo. Haha! We enjoyed walking through the park, watching the ducks on the lake and had a nosey at Buckingham Palace while we were there.

The Duke of York Statue steps are at the other end of St James's Park and were fun to walk up. I smiled to myself as I thought of the scene where Crowley says ‘Well let's have lunch? Hmm,’ and Aziraphale turns around, as it was the first time I realised that these two were more than just friends.

Heaven’s top floor, the Sky Garden in Fenchurch Street near Monument is a very tall building with a botanical garden on the top floor. You can visit the sky garden for free, but you do need to book in advance so it’s best to plan ahead for this one. The views of London are breathtaking from the 35th floor and the tropical plants are fun.

My last stop for this visit was Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. I booked a tour on the morning I was due to go home. The first tour is 10 am and lasts an hour, so I dashed off as soon as the tour guide was uttering his last words about the gift shop, across London back to Kings Cross to pick up my suitcase from luggage storage and get the 11:48 am train home!

One I missed and could have easily gone to is St Margaret Street where Newton and Shadwell meet, and Shadwell fleeces Newton for a cup of tea with nine sugars and pockets the change. A bit gutted I missed it to be honest – I love Jack Whitehall (I’m back in London with the family in June so I’ll swing by and update then!)

There are also some other locations a little further afield that I might try to visit on a later date, such as Shadwell's and Madam Tracy's flat down Hornsey Road in Islington, Crowley's Flat exterior in Eastfields Avenue, Best Cafe on Garratt Lane where Crowley meets Shadwell, Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park where the ineffable husbands watch Warlock defacing a dinosaur sign and Antonella's Cafe and Bistro where Crowley and Aziraphale are thinking of ideas to track down the antichrist whist Aziraphale eats cake.

Okay, I’m gonna finish up with the man himself. The very kind, very charming, and VERY patient Michael Sheen The reason for my London visit in the first place. Nye was spectacular OBviOUsLy, but he was super generous with his time at stage door for us all. I got a hug and asked him to pass it on to Aziraphale (that angel really needs a hug) and it made him laugh, which made my night!

Check out my reblog for extra locations when I visited London again a month later, and for a hilarious bonus photo of.... Gabriel??!

Here’s the wonderful map I used -

from this website:

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ＴＨＥ ＲＯＹＡＬ ＣＨＲＯＮＩＣＬＥＳ : The Royal Wedding of Prince William & Catherine Middleton .* :☆ﾟ｡ ･

HRH Prince William Arthur Philip Louis and Miss. Catherine Elizabeth Middleton married in a religious ceremony at Westminster Abbey on what is my favourite day ever aka 29 April, 2011.

For the day, William was in the red tunic of the Colonel of the Irish Guards uniform with a forage cap bearing the Irish Guards insignia. He wore the Order of the Garter Star and Blue Riband to which his RAF Wings & Golden Jubilee Medal were fastened.

Meanwhile Catherine was a fairytale disney princess in a dress by Surah Burton of Alexander McQueen with the Cartier Scroll Tiara and a pair of diamond acorn earrings from Robinson Pelham. Her bridal bouquet featured myrtle, lily-of-the-valley, sweet William, ivy, and hyacinth.

Catherine was walked down the aisle by her father, Michael with whom she had travelled from Goring Hotel. Her sister Pippa was the maid of honour.

Will & Cat vowed to love, honour and cherish each other during the ceremony performed by the Archbishop of Cantebury.

He gave Catalina a ring made from Welsh Gold keeping with the tradition within the Royal Family.

Following the ceremony in true fairytale fashion, the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge travelled in a horse-drawn carriage procession to Buckingham Palace.

They appeared on the Palace Balcony and shared TWO KISSES to the delight of the crowd gathered below and to my Disney obsessed self who'd been glued to the TV the entire time.

A Reception was held by the Queen in their honour at Bucking Palace, after which William drove his babykins to Clarence House in an Aston Martin DB6 Volante. Another private dinner was hosted by The Prince of Wales for his son and new daughter-in-law.

This was quite literally THE WEDDING OF THE CENTURY! Aaaahhh all those feels of the day, everything was just perfect. Honestly for me nothing is ever topping twenty-ninth of april of 2011. And I don't think there was anyone who wasn't enveloped by the happiness radiating off of these two that day.

Nobody can talk about the day without talking about the goddess that our homegirl looked like that day, KateEffect had always been a thing but THIS DRESS like >>>>

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in March 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions - Penny Guisinger 🧡 Tempting Olivia - Clare Ashton 💛 Monilinia - Free Mints 💚 Guillaume - Aurora Dimitre 💙 The Marble Queen - Anna Kopp & Gabrielle Kari 💜 The Baker & the Bard - Fern Haught ❤️ Rainbow! - Sunny & Gloom 🧡 The Safe Zone - Amy Marsden 💛 The Weavers of Alamaxa - Hadeer Elsbai 💙 The No-Girlfriend Rule - Christen Randall 💜 A Different Kind of Brave by Lee Wind 🌈 Cirque du Slay - Rob Osler ❤️ Wizard’s Debt - Niranjan 🧡 One Last Breath - Ginny Myers Sain 💛 Nothing Special - Katie Cook 💚 I Feel Awful, Thanks - Lara Pickle 💙 The Tower - Flora Carr 💜 Be the Sea - Clara Ward ❤️ What Grows in the Dark - Jaq Evans 🧡 Heirs of Bone and Sea - Kay Adams 💛 The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste 💙 Thunder Song - Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 💜 Mona of the Manor - Armistead Maupin 🌈 Like Happiness - Ursula Villarreal-Moura

❤️ Ellipses - Vanessa Lawrence 🧡 Saint, Sorrow, Sinner - Freydís Moon 💛 Blood & Brujas - Mikayla D. Hornedo 💚 Infinity Kings - Adam Silvera 💙 Really Cute People - Markus Harwood-Jones 💜 How You Were Born - Kate Cayley ❤️ These Bodies Between Us - Sarah Van Name 🧡 Icarus - K. Ancrum 💛 The Emperor and the Endless Palace - Justinian Huang 💙 How Not to Date an Angel - Lana Kole 💜 Enemy Colours - R.M. Olson 🌈 Broken Parts Included - Alyson Root

❤️ Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler 🧡 The Duke’s Cowboy - Andrew Grey 💛 The Secret Something - Emily Wright 💚 Colstead & Andie - Olivia Janae 💙 Play It Again, Ma’am - Sienna Waters 💜 Love Is…? - K.J. Wrights ❤️ Welcome to Forever - Nathan Tavares 🧡 Just Another Epic Love Poem - Parisa Akhbari 💛 The Phoenix Bride - Natasha Siegel 💙 These Letters End in Tears - Musih Tedji Xaviere 💜 Truly Home - J.J. Hale 🌈 Monster Mixer - Robin Jo Margaret

❤️ The House of Hidden Meanings - RuPaul 🧡 Promised to the Queen - Barbara Winkes 💛 A Conclave of Crimson - Nicole Eigener & Beverley Lee 💚 A Hunt of Blood and Iron - Cara Nox 💙 The Fealty of Monsters - Ladz 💜 Ariel Crashes a Train - Olivia A. Cole ❤️ Those Beyond the Wall - Micaiah Johnson 🧡 Dancing Toward Stardust - Julia Underwood 💛 Heir to Dreams & Darkness - Ben Alderson 💙 Comet Cruise - Niska Morrow 💜 Dead Girls Walking - Sami Ellis 🌈 Blackout - Carlos E. Rivera

❤️ Monster Crush - Erin Ellie Franey 🧡 Blessed Water - Margot Douaihy 💛 These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart - Izzy Wasserstein 💚 Kiss of Seduction - Rawnie Sabor 💙 Sunbringer - Hannah Kaner 💜 Evacuation to Love - C.A. Popovich ❤️ Sin - Brooke Matthews 🧡 Falls from Grace - Ruby Landers 💛 Lean in to Love - Catherine Lane 💙 A Small Apocalypse - Laura Chow Reeve 💜 Cascade Failure - L.M. Sagas 🌈 The Mars House - Natasha Pulley

❤️ All This Time - Sage Donnell 🧡 The Romance Lovers Book Club - MA Binfield 💛 View from the Top - Morgan Adams 💚 Number Call - Nagisa Furuya 💙 Crossing Bridges - Chelsey Lynford 💜 The Boyfriend Subscription - Steven Salvatore ❤️ Love the World or Get Killed Trying - Alvina Chamberland 🧡 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💛 The Prince & His Stolen Groom - J.E. Ridge 💙 Chrysalis and Requiem - Quinton Li 💜 Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 🌈 A Botanical Daughter - Noah Medlock

❤️ Wednesday Nights - by Donna Jay 🧡 The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo 💛 Song of the Huntress - Lucy Holland 💚 Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash 💙 Spirits & Sunflowers - A.D. Armistead & Austin Daniel 💜 Floating Hotel - Grace Curtis ❤️ Far From Camelot - Rylee Hale 🧡 This Way to Change - Jezz Chung 💛 Mexican Bird - Luis Lopez-Maldonado 💙 Android Affection: Unveiling - Beau Van Dalen 💜 Welcome to the Damned - Astraea Long 🌈 She Came for Blood - Darva Green

❤️ Cover Story - Rachel Lacey 🧡 The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste 💛 The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist - Sophie Gonzales 💚 In Walked Trouble - Dana Hawkins 💙 Never Leave, Never Lie - Thea Verdone 💜 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Priest ❤️ All the World Beside - Garrard Conley 🧡 Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles - Jessica Kingsley Publishers 💛 The Feast Makers - H.A. Clarke 💙 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💜 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 🌈 A Hard Sell - Jennifer Moffatt

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The Year 1817

Les Mis Letters reading club explores one chapter of Les Misérables every day. Join us on Discord, Substack - or share your thoughts right here on tumblr - today's tag is #lm 1.3.1

1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers’ shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden’s pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d’Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor’s platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box <i>à la Charter</i>. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother’s head into the fountain of the Flower-Market.

They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, <i>The Medusa</i>, which was destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras read to three or four friends her unpublished <i>Ourika</i>, in her boudoir furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N’s were scratched off the Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the bridge of the King’s Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,—Napoleon and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize subject, <i>The Happiness procured through Study</i>. M. Bellart was officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis Courier. There was a false Chateaubriand, named Marchangy, in the interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d’Arlincourt. <i>Claire d’Albe</i> and <i>Malek-Adel</i> were masterpieces; Madame Cottin was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc d’Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope performances, which adorned Franconi’s advertising posters, and which attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the author of <i>Agnese</i>, a good sort of fellow, with a square face and a wart on his cheek, directed the little private concerts of the Marquise de Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l’Évêque. All the young girls were singing the <i>Hermit of Saint-Avelle</i>, with words by Edmond Géraud. <i>The Yellow Dwarf</i> was transferred into <i>Mirror</i>. The Café Lemblin stood up for the Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The <i>Constitutionnel</i> was constitutional. <i>La Minerve</i> called Chateaubriand <i>Chateaubriant</i>. That <i>t</i> made the good middle-class people laugh heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated two men more than an abyss was to say, the <i>regicides</i>, or to say the <i>voters</i>; to say the <i>enemies</i>, or to say the <i>allies</i>; to say <i>Napoleon</i>, or to say <i>Buonaparte</i>.

All sensible people were agreed that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., surnamed “The Immortal Author of the Charter.” On the platform of the Pont-Neuf, the word <i>Redivivus</i> was carved on the pedestal that awaited the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, “We must write to Bacot.” MM. Canuel, O’Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the sketch, to some extent with Monsieur’s approval, of what was to become later on “The Conspiracy of the Bord de l’Eau”—of the waterside. L’Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, a complete set of dentist’s instruments spread out before him, cleaning his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated <i>The Monarchy according to the Charter</i> to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, assuming an authoritative tone, preferred Lafon to Talma. M. de Féletez signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote <i>Thérèse Aubert</i>.Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden fleur-de-lys, fought each other <i>apropos</i> of the King of Rome. The counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d’Orléans, who made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of dragoons—a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able to do, had <i>The Two Philiberts</i> played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: <i>Works of Voltaire</i>, of the French Academy. “That will attract purchasers,” said the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him—a sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:—

“Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws.”

As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his sublime dream. There was a celebrated Fourier at the Academy of Science, whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: <i>a certain Lord Baron</i>. David d’Angers was trying to work in marble. The Abbé Caron was speaking, in terms of praise, to a private gathering of seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden inventor; an utopia—a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by a coup d’état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on account of his piety. Dupuytren and Récamier entered into a quarrel in the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons flatter Moses.

M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have <i>pomme de terre</i> [potato] pronounced <i>parmentière</i>, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the royalist polemics, to the state of “Infamous Grégoire.” The locution of which we have made use—<i>passed to the state of</i>—has been condemned as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d’Artois enter Notre Dame, had said aloud: <i>“Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm.”</i> A seditious utterance. Six months in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy in the most barefaced manner.

This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these details, which are wrongly called trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful. It is of the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged “a fine farce.”

[simshousewindsor]

RECIPROCAL FOE

MONACO PALACE, OASIS SPRINGS • FEBRUARY 2025

[Aide]: Your Majesty, there are reports that the UK will be imposing sanctions on us after accusing us of helping North Marvania.

King Felipe: (angry) What! First, they go behind my back and help Glimmerbrook cede, now this? When will Windenburg learn they don't own the sims world?

King Felipe: Schedule an audience with the Prime Minister. I need to know how we plan to retaliate.

[Aide]: Yes, Your Majesty.

- - - - - LATER - - - - -

BUCKINGSIM PALACE, EASTON

Martin [P.S.]: Government will be announcing Oasis Springs sanctions today.

Queen Katherine: Oh?

Martin [P.S.]: I believe there is a memo in your box today, ma'am.

Queen Katherine: Tell my uncle I'd like to see him.

Martin [P.S.]: Today?

Queen Katherine: Today, Martin.

Martin [P.S.]: Yes, ma'am. I have also left your COP7 speech on your desk.

Queen Katherine: I will review and make edits today.

Martin [P.S.]: Oh, before I forget - Accession Day. Sumpterson will be closed for visitors beginning next week to prepare for your arrival. Have you decided on inviting the Duke and Duchess of Hastings?

Queen Katherine: Yes, extend an invite. The duke and duchess should, from here on out, be added to all communications and invitations. If the Kents and Boykins are included, the Hastings should be as well.

Martin [P.S.]: Anything else?

Queen Katherine: That will be all.

Martin [P.S.]: (bows) Your Majesty.

- - - - - LATER - - - - -

SOMEWHERE ABOVE WINDENBURG

Cmd Parker [P.S.]: Unfortunately, your dowry does not allow for any extended down time until next month. You will be joining Her Majesty in Henford for Accession Day.

Prince Rainier: That is in two weeks!

Cmd Parker [P.S.]: Yes, Your Royal Highness. The queen leaves for Sulani tomorrow, for COP7, so there are quite a few engagements that the palace have transferred to you.

Prince Rainier: Can the Queen mother not take any of these?

Cmd Parker [P.S.]: We can ask.

Cmd Parker [P.S.]: One final thing - a letter arrived at the hotel for you before we left.

Prince Rainier: A letter?

Cmd Parker [P.S.]: From your cousin. The Viscount St. Lester.

Dear Cousin,    I hope this letter finds you well. I’m sure I am the last person you were expecting to hear from today.    I wanted you to be the next to know, I am returning to Windenburg next month! I called mother last week and told her, she was beyond thrilled!    Returning to Windenburg means I will be back at court, and that is where you come into play. Royal life has never been for me but if mother has her way, she’d control every aspect of my return. Help! - Harrison

Cmd Parker [P.S.]: Is everything okay, Your Royal Highness?

Prince Rainier: He's coming back!

Cmd Parker [P.S.]: Is that a good thing?

Prince Rainier: It's the best thing!

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[aimeedaisies]

The Princess Royal’s Official Engagements in April 2024

06/04 As President of the Working Clumber Spaniel Society, held a Training Day to mark their 40th Anniversary at Gatcombe Park. 🐶

09/04 On behalf of The King, held an Investiture at Windsor Castle.🎖️

With Sir Tim Opened Tideway’s Chelsea Quay, on Chelsea Embankment in London. 🌊

With Sir Tim, As Master of the Corporation of Trinity House, attended the 70th anniversary of Re-Hallowing Service at St Olave’s Church, followed by a Reception at Trinity House. ⛪️🍾

10/04 Visited Helmshore Mills Textile Museum in Rossendale, Lancashire. 🧵👕

Visited Trawden Village Community Projects in Trawden near Colne, Lancashire. 🏡

Visited HMS VENTURER in build at Venturer Hall in Fife. ⛴️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

11/04 In Northern Ireland Princess Anne; 🇮🇪

Visited Fleming Agri Products Limited in Derry. 🚜

Visited Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners, to commemorate its 170th Anniversary. 🚢

Visited the South West College Erne Campus building in Enniskillen. 🏫

Visited the renovated Enniskillen Workhouse in Enniskillen. 💼

As Patron of Maritime UK, attended the Northern Ireland Maritime and Offshore Cluster launch Reception at Belfast Harbour Office. ⚓️🥂

12/04 As Royal Patron of the Motor Neurone Disease Association, attended the Northern Ireland Conference at Dunsilly Hotel in Antrim. 🇮🇪👨‍🦽

As Patron of Tenovus Cancer Care, visited a Mobile Support Unit at Bronglais General Hospital in Aberystwyth. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏥

15/04 With Sir Tim As the Former President of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers, presented The Princess Royal Award and Royal Dairy Innovation Award at Gatcombe Park. 🐄🥛🏆

16/04 As Royal Patron of the National Coastwatch Institution, this visited Fleetwood Station in Fleetwood, followed by a Reception at Marine Hall. 🔎🌊

As Patron of the Pony Club, visited Wrea Green Equitation Centre in Preston, to mark the 25th of the Pony Club Centre Membership Scheme. 🐴

As President of the Carers Trust, visited Sefton Carers Centre in Liverpool, to mark its 30th anniversary. 🧑‍🦯🩺

17/04 On behalf of The King, held two Investitures at Windsor Castle. 🎖️

18/04 Attended the Lord Mayor's Big Curry Lunch at Guildhall. 🍛

As President of The Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conferences, held a Dinner at Buckingham Palace for the President's Council and the Caribbean-Canada Leaders' Dialogue. 🗺️🍽️

19/04 On behalf of The King, held an Investiture at Buckingham Palace. 🎖️

21/04 Unofficial As President of the Working Clumber Spaniel Society, hosted a test day at Gatcombe Park. 🐶

22/04 As trustee of the council of St George’s House Princess Anne;

Attended a council meeting at St George’s House. 💼

Attended a Lecture in St. George's Chapel. 🎓

Attended a Dinner at the Vicars' Hall. 🍽️

23/04 On behalf of The King, held two Investitures at Windsor Castle. 🎖️

As Royal Patron of the Special Boat Service Association, held a Dinner at Windsor Castle. 🚤🍽️

24/04 As President of the Riding for the Disabled Association, visited the Cavalier Centre, and presented The King’s Awards for Voluntary Service in Farley, Much Wenlock. 🐎🏆

As Patron of Save the Children UK, visited the Lyth, Ellesmere, the birthplace of Eglantyne Jebb. 🏠

Visited the Jebb Memorial Garden at Cremorne Gardens in Ellesmere. ⛲️

25/04 Attended "DNA Day" at Illumina Centre in Great Abington. 🧬

Opened the National House Building Council's Apprenticeship Training Hub at Histon Football Club. 👷

As Patron of the Royal College of Midwives, visited Hinchingbrooke Hospital Maternity Unit. 👶🏥

As Colonel of The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons), visited The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment at Hyde Park Barracks. 🐴💂

As Chancellor of the University of London, attended an Institute of Commonwealth Studies Reception at the Senate House, to mark its 75th anniversary. 🎓

27/04 As Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps, attended the National Drill and Piping Competition at HMS Raleigh. 🫡⚓️

30/04 As Guardian of the Chaffinch Trust, attended a Reception at the Reform Club. 🥂

As Chancellor of the University of London, attended a Graduation Ceremony at the Barbican Centre. 🎓

As Commandant-in-Chief of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal’s Volunteer Corps), presented Coronation Medals at Wellington Barracks in London. 🫡🎖️

Total official engagements for Anne in April: 39

2024 total so far: 171

Total official engagements accompanied by Tim in April: 3

2024 total so far: 32

FYI - due to certain royal family members being off ill/in recovery I won't be posting everyone's engagement counts out of respect, I am continuing to count them and release the totals at the end of the year.

[hlficlibrary]

atonement anon here! thank you for the response on my previous ask. i would like to request fic recs with some similar vibes as the movie atonement has please :) thank you lots!!

Hi, again! So what I tried to find you are fics that have some similar themes to Atonement...like betrayal, forbidden love, historical, and/or false accusations. Hope they fit what you're looking for!

Landslide by aimmyarrowshigh, spibsy

The year is 1976. In November, Jimmy Carter will take control of the White House. Americans are meeting Laverne & Shirley at their apartment in Milwaukee. Hotel California diverges from the reign of Kool & the Gang. And the FBI is still reeling from the repercussions of Watergate, the tragedy at Wounded Knee, Operation Family Secrets, and the strategic terrors of the anti-cult movement.

That's what Special Agent Harry Styles has been told is the basis of his mission to an abandoned farmhouse in rural New Hampshire.

With his hair grown out long and his shirt untucked, he's going undercover to do reconnaissance on suspected cult leader Louis Tomlinson, who has led a group of people out into the middle of nowhere, leaving no record of the life he'd had before. All Harry knows is what the agency gave him: Tomlinson's name, and instructions to figure out what he's doing with the eleven people he brought with him.

In the year that Harry spends undercover and under Louis Tomlinson's wing, he learns more than he ever expected.

Shooting Stars in the Woods by frenchkiss

A Tudor era AU. Prince Louis I of England has everything a man could ever dream of, but his lack of husband is driving his father, the King, to madness. But Louis doesn't want any of the eligible bachelors his father pushes his way. All he wants is to be able to do is marry the knight he's been in love with for two years now.

The love story of a royal and his servant, separated by class but joined by heart. Their relationship has remained a careful secret for a long time now, but when a threat to the kingdom forces them both to leave the palace, it turns out their secret isn't the only one that could topple everything they’ve ever known.

Victorian Boy by audreyhheart

Victorian AU. Harry the virgin Duke of Somerset knows little of love, while Louis the sly Duke of Warwick knows too much. When the two dukes come together for the Bilsdale fox hunt in York, Harry finds himself drawn into Louis' bed. But when secrets from Louis' dark past come to light, Harry fears that the fox isn't the only one being hunted.

Echoes & Omens by @itsmotivatingcara

Echoes of the dead come in many forms. Their imprints forever tied to the ones who'd killed them.

Louis Tomlinson is able to track the dead using their echoes, they call to him. He's used that gift to aid Scotland Yard in their investigations, with the hopes of studying Criminology at Cambridge University. He's lived a life of privilege and good fortune as a Marquess, son of the late Duke Tomlinson, with his life mapped out since day one.

Until two terrible truths are revealed.

One, he's adopted. Two, his biological parents are London's most notorious serial killers.

Against his family's wishes, Louis travels to Chicago to uncover the truth of their incarceration. Much to his dismay, his biological mother's Lawyer, Harry Styles, wants to take his case. Together, they work to uncover what really happened all those years ago, but perhaps more is revealed than they could've ever anticipated. Trapped in a whirlwind of portents and omens, Louis and Harry find themselves pitted against an enemy they'd not foreseen.

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Meghans frustration - Prince Harry wants his old life back by u/Quiet-Vanilla-7117

Meghan’s frustration - ‘Prince Harry wants his old life back’ "Entertainment commentator Mark Boardman said that the 39-year-old Duke of Sussex “longs” for his friends and would love a home in London." “He appears to have distanced himself from his college friends and lacks a permanent UK residence. During his visits to London, he typically resides in hotels and avoids public appearances. Undoubtedly, Prince Harry longs for his old friendships.” There was talk that the King could be considering leasing one of the royal residences to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, a claim since denied by Buckingham Palace. Ultimately, he would 100% love a London base and he’d love it to be on royal grounds, even if it was in Windsor or one of the apartments in Buckingham Palace. But it’s not going to happen. “But ultimately, Meghan wants Harry to be by her side to support her, to look after the kids and to get his life back on track. And anything going backwards is going to take away from that.” IT ALL FALLS APART WITH THE FOLLOWING FANTASY"Perhaps one thing that will be helping Harry get his twinkle back is the fact that he is thought to have reconnected with some members of his family, with Mark saying that he’s now back in touch with the Duke & Duchess of Edinbrough. He said, “Meghan and Harry have reconnected with Sophie and Edward, and this renewed connection may serve as their gateway back into the royal household. Despite a significant age gap, both couples have endured substantial public scrutiny over the years." https://archive.md/zJPp9​ post link: https://ift.tt/LScFGxw author: Quiet-Vanilla-7117 submitted: October 02, 2023 at 08:47AM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[blueshistorysims]

September 1921, Henford-on-Bagley, England

Dearest sister,

I hate it. I bloody detest it. Thomas, the title, the fucking castle. I could go on for hours about the castle. It is beautiful, yes, and full of history, but my god, it costs 6,000 bloody pounds a month to even run it. 72,000 a year. That’s more than I would make in fifteen years in my field of work. I think once Thomas dies I am going to sell it. I don’t see the need to live in a Versailles Palace knock-off. I was told that they even hired Jules Hardouin-Mansart and his successor Robert de Cotte to design the place back in 1709. 

I spend six days a week with his grace, learning the skills and duties of a duke. He’s hired an etiquette coach to teach me how to dine properly (there is no need to be so many types of spoons and forks, why is there a fork just for eating cheese and another for snails?), a ballroom instructor to teach me to dance waltzes, and I spend hours with the estate manager, learning to the run the bloody place. Stella has escaped these tortures because her mother thought it be would smart to learn American, English, and French etiquette and dining styles. 

Sundays are my only free day, and I spend it with Stella. She hates it here more than I do. She tells me that she wants to go home, back to New York. I don’t blame her. The countryside has almost no society, and we avoid the neighbors—Thomas doesn’t think we are ready to be in proper society yet. It is so bluntly obvious that he does not like us I almost laugh. 

He leaves for London for parliament soon. I am tempted to sneak away on a boat back to New York. Change my name and run to California where Stella and I will run a hotel. It began as a joke at first, but I wonder if she’s starting to be semi-serious now. I think I will make a case to let us live in London, that way we will be near you and Francesca, and Stella knows people in London. She won’t stuck in a society based on racial privilege and merit. I just want to pursue my own life with my own interests. 

I will send a telegram when I am in London. Hopefully soon. 

Your darling suffering brother, Byron

East London

Giselle set the letter down and sighed. Of course Byron was complaining about living in a castle. She understood why he was angry, but she was living in a tiny apartment in East London, barely making ends meet if she and Francesca weren’t both working. The only person she felt sorry for in the matter was Stella.

“Oh Giselle,” Francesca wailed, opening the door and slamming it behind her. She was crying.

Giselle stood up in shock. “What happened, dearest? What is the matter?”

“I’ve had a telegram from the family lawyer. Aunt Rosamond is dead.”

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[incaseofart]

This is my Helluva Boss (/Hazbin Hotel) OC, Aura! Aura is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. Aura was born to an Ars Goetia family that is descended from Vapula, one of the Dukes of Hell. They are not titled (re Stolas) or an heir (re Octavia) but are more like Stella - with no particular role in the hierarchy.

As a very young child, they played with Stolas a few times as their parents searched for a compatible and titled demon to arrange a marriage with. Before this could happen, there was a tragic assassination involving angel weapons and Aura's parents were killed. Aura, suddenly coming into their illusion skills, was not killed, but bore witness to the murder of their parents and has a fuckload of ptsd from it. They were very young.

Wandering the pride ring and sobbing, they were found and adopted by Zestial, who recognized that they were a Goetia (and later recognized that they were one thought dead). He initially adopts them for his own purposes, seeing as they'd obviously be very useful to him, but ultimately does find a familial bond with them, really caring for them and viewing them as his grandchild. Aura is young enough when they are adopted that while they remember bits and pieces of their parents' death, they don't remember that they are a Goetia. The fact that they are a Goetia is a fact so obvious to most people that it is almost never brought up, so Aura remains oblivious.

As a teen and then an adult, true to their connection to Vapula, Aura runs a shop specializing in machinery. This can vary from weapons (collaboration with Carmine or individuals looking for specialty weapons) to fine machinery that many of the Goetian royalty keep as display pieces in their home. Their work takes them to Goetian palaces in multiple rings, where they do house calls to install or fix these pieces.

When Stolas has an heirloom breakdown in his palace, he and Aura are afforded the chance to meet again...

Also the blue tail in the image when they go into their monstrous demonic form, or sometimes just when they get very angry. I want to draw the full form soon!

Also a height comparison off the cuff KJFHEKJFE

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were officially welcomed to the Taj Palace Hotel on the first day of their tour of India and Bhutan | April 10th 2016

[world-of-wales]

─ •✧ WILLIAM'S YEAR IN REVIEW : 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 ✧• ─

𝟐 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : A personal tweet by William was released offering condolences on the passing of Bob Burrow.

𝟒 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William held an Investiture.

𝟓 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : The Prince of Wales, The King & The Queen attended the National Commemorative Event to mark the Eightieth Anniversary of the D-Day Landings. They were received by His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire (Mr. Nigel Atkinson), Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. Rishi Sunak) and Defence Services Secretary (Major General Eldon Millar). Later, they met Veterans of D-Day and their families.

𝟔 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William was received Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy in Paris (Mr. Theophilus Rycroft) in Normandy, France for D-Day Commemorations. He attended the Canadian Ceremony of Remembrance to commemorate their role in the D-Day Landings at Juno Beach Centre. Afterwards, he met veterans at Arromanches. Finally, The Prince of Wales attended the International Commemorative Ceremony at Omaha Beach.

𝟕 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William and Catherine marked the 80th Anniversary of D-Day Landings. The Earl of Chester attended the Wedding Ceremony of the Duke of Westminster & Miss Olivia Henson.

𝟏𝟎 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : He visited the England Men's European Football Championship Team at St. George's Park.

𝟏𝟏 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : Kensington Palace released a photograph of William on route to Cardiff. He was received by His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of South Glamorgan (Mrs. Morfudd Meredith) as he met representatives of the United Kingdom and Australian seaweed industry at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He subsequently visited the Zero2Five Food Industry Centre.

𝟏𝟑 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : The Prince of Wales visited the Secret Intelligence Service.

𝟏𝟒 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William attended the Senior Colonels' Conference at Clarence House as Colonel of the Welsh Guards.

𝟏𝟓 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William took part in The King's Birthday Parade on Horse Guards Parade. Later, he appeared on the Balcony along with Catherine and their children for the RAF fly-past.

𝟏𝟔 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : A photograph of William with George, Charlotte and Louis (taken by Catherine) was released to mark Father's Day. Additionally, a photograph from 1985 of William with King Charles was released by Kensington Palace accompanied by a personal tweet from Wills.

𝟏𝟕 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William attended a Chapter of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the Throne Room at Windsor Castle. Afterwards, he was present at the Luncheon Party for the Companions of the Garter. Subsequently, he attended the Order of the Garter Installation Service at St George's Chapel.

𝟏𝟖 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : He held a Meeting at Windsor Castle

𝟏𝟗 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William attended the second day of the Ascot Races and presented trophies for the Prince of Wales Stakes.

𝟐𝟎 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : Kensington Palace released William's photograph with King Frederick & Princess Josephine of Denmark as he attended the UEFA 2024 Group Game between England and Denmark at Frankfurt Arena.

𝟐𝟏 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William celebrated his 42nd Birthday. Buckingham Palace released a Birthday Portrait featuring William with King Charles was released to mark the occasion. Additionally, Kensington Palace released a Birthday Photograph of William with their three children taken by Catherine. He was spotted at Windsor Castle arriving for a Meeting. In the evening, William along with George and Charlotte attended London Night 1 of Taylor's Swift Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium.

𝟐𝟐 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William and Catherine marked Windrush Day. Kensington Palace released a photograph with Taylor Swift featuring William, George and Charlotte. A selfie by Taylor Swift was also shared on her socials from the meeting.

𝟐𝟑 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William marked World Female Rangers Week.

𝟐𝟒 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : He chaired a Meeting of The Prince's Council.

𝟐𝟓 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William took part in the Japanese State Visit. He welcomed Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan at their Hotel. He then accompanied the couple to Horse Guards for the Ceremonial Welcome. Afterwards, they viewed an Exhibition of the Royal Collection items relating to Japan and attended the luncheon reception. Finally, The Prince of Wales attended the State Dinner at Buckingham Palace. He also appeared in a video message during the Zero Suicide International Summit.

𝟐𝟔 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : He attended tthe Groundswell Regenerative Agriculture Festival in Herefordshire. He also visited Yeo Valley Organic at the event. A tweet from William and Catherine was released congratulating England's Qualification in the next stage of the UEFA Euros. An unseen photo of WillCat from 2006 was released by Pat Tigrett.

𝟐𝟕 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : He attended the Earthshot "Stories of Impact" discussion at their Innovation Camp. Afterwards William attended the Breakthrough Energy Summit as part of the London Climate Action Week.

𝟐𝟗 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : William and Catherine marked Armed Forces Day.

𝟑𝟎 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 : He released a personal tweet congratulating the Three Lions on their Euros Quarter Final Qualification.

[camisoledadparis]

Paris. The Luxembourg Palace (French: Palais du Luxembourg) is a palace built for Marie de Medici according to the design of Salomon Debros in 1615-1631 in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris (Faubourg Saint-Germain), near the Latin Quarter, on the site of the Luxembourg Hotel - the mansion of the late Duke Francois de Pinay from the Luxembourg family (hence the name).

[starlightmoon96]

The age of Rosalie Chapter 12.

" Dad this is a surprise, to what do I owe the sudden call?" Charlie said that over the phone with her father and he answered her

"Your associating with Rosalie Belmont?"

Being nervous Charlie replied to her father

"Well...she offered...apparently Twilight was doing something a little similar, that's the reason why she never bothered interacting with thee other overlords for the past few centuries. She's helping with the hotel also currently...."

"And made myself as home here." Twilight said that interrupting Charlie over the phone call as Twilight pressed the speaking option

"Hello Lucifer..it's been a while hasn't it?"

"You being an ally of a Belmont is one thing but being involved with my daughter is another." Twilight grinned as she answered him back

"Before I died I promised Rosalie that I would find her family and contact her when I did. To my surprise I couldn't find any during the first hundred years, but instead I found souls that where wronged and most certainly didn't belong in hell so I helped them. I continued doing so till the twentieth century, while at the same time still looking for any Belmont in hell." Her saying that last part confused Lucifer

"There aren't any Belmont's in hell I thought there was a few here?" Clearly Twilight was confused when he said that and she questioned him

"You really didn't know? I thought I could find Rosalie's father I know he killed a few humans that deserved it but even he isn't in hell. I don't know anything about Rosalie's mother side and neither does Rosalie herself, the only one she knew was her mother and that was it." This only raised more questions than answers even to Lucifer and being curious Charlie questioned

"Ahh..Rosalie declined heaven's offering in being a member of the Seven Heavenly Virtues because they did nothing in stopping the Belmont execution. You think that might have something to do with the Belmont's not being in hell?"

"That's what we thought of but if that was the case one of them would have made contact in saying that where in heaven...that never happened. Either they died again not long after coming to hell or there's more too it that even YOU don't know Lucifer?" This new information only interested Lucifer, he hadn't seen a Belmont soul in hell in centuries before Rosalie's time in the pride ring and sinners couldn't go outside that ring. After the Belmont's where killed off he hadn't seen another since besides the last living one, that new information made Lucifer end the call and Charlie questioned Twilight

"Twilight what did you mean about Rosalie's mother side?" Charlie questioned her and Twilight answered her

"Rose told me that she never met anyone from her mother's side. What she was told her grandmother died a long time ago and her grand wiccan blood came from her and her mother didn't know the identity of her father. Her grandmother said something about it being for her mother's protection all she said about him was that he wasn't normal but very powerful. Rosalie thinks she might have gotten her powers from him maybe? " That was Twilight's response to Charlie, though it was still more questions than answers with the identity of Rosalie's grandfather and the true origin of Rosalie's powerful magic. 

During that time in hell Rosalie had contacted Willow and requested that she needed an audience with King Bael, it confused Willow at first and Rosalie explained everything to her. Of course it shocked her hearing about Leopold and King Bael being involved with helping his nephew, more so hearing how the duke's heir left hell for a human which made sense in why King Bael was so welcoming to her even after her marriage and trying to make a good impression of her daughters despite them being scared of him. 

"Welcome to my home your highness. Thank you for making time." Willow bowed and curtsied to King Bael when he arrived at her palace, when she stood up straight King Bael responded to her 

"This is quite a surprise myself when I was told you wanted to speak to me about an urgent matter." Willow barely glanced at the servants that where close by doing there jobs before she spoke up

"I wish not to speak here, if you would kindly follow me." With that said Willow guided King Bael to another location in the palace that was off limits to the servants, it didn't take long to arrive in the room. To King Bael's surprise Rosalie was waiting in the room sitting on one of the chair reading a book, when she heard the door open she stopped reading the book.

"Good you brought him." 

"Rosalie Belmont?" King Bael said her name right after Willow closed and locked the door using her magic abilities

"Door's lock." Where Willows two words and Rosalie spoke up

"And for extra measures." Right after saying that Rosalie snapped her fingers and instantly a barrier surrounded thee entire room, then Rosalie stood up from the chair she was sitting on and walked

"No one outside will be able to hear, not just anyway can break this type of barrier...anyway I'm the one that wants to talk to you, I asked Willow to so not to draw suspicion." Of course King Bael was surprised seeing Rosalie he respected Rosalie's power but her swearing to star a war with the goetia's gave him mixed feelings 

"I met your nephew, Lucrecio told me about him and I did my own investigating…he opened up to me and told me how you helped him faking his death so he could be with the person her truly loves. I respect that." Her saying that shocked King Bael and he shape shifted to met Rosalie's eye level as he questioned her

"You said Lucrecio? Do you mean Prince Lucrecio? The same one that left the Ars Goeta centuries ago? Didn't think he was still alive?

Why would a powerful demon hunter like yourself be associated with demon ro....." He stopped himself as he answered his own question when Rosalie calmly smiled to him and he also noticed the wedding ring on Rosalie's finger

"You married one of Paimon's sons?"

"Ironic isn't it? The golden belmont fell in love with a self disowned

demon prince and even had a child with him." King Bael was smart enough to know the identity of the child and looked at Willow who smiled at him

"Cordelia? No one would believe that she's really of Belmont blood? And married into the Grand Duke's family." Rosalie spoke with King Bael more about how she met Lucrecio and telling him about the ideas he had in wanting to make a difference in the Ars Goetia with wanted to change out dated traditions, it wasn't just her Lucrecio had shown up with the aid of Rosalie's and her portals and he chatted with King Bael. But he wasn't alone since he as in the human world he had brought Leopold with him and of course King Bael was happy seeing his nephew again, the two caught up a little bit and Leopold told his uncle that he had formed a contract with Rosalie in order to protect himself and Samir from heaven along with mention how samir still accepted him even after his true form was revealed to him. King Bael was shocked hearing that his nephew has formed a contract with the Golden Belmont but he knew it was the smart thing to do considering how powerful she is, with all the talking and convincing King Bael became another Goetia that allied himself with Rosalie and her family. He also wanted to do a little business with Lucrecio in making some of his ideas to reality, Leopold also liked the ideas as well but since he faked his death he can only support from the shadows.

Before Rosalie left hell with Leopold and Lucrecio she told King Bael that she allied herself with Lucifer's daughter in helping her with her cos in rehabilitating sinners, also at the same time to in bothering Lucifer and Satin since she still kind of hated them well mostly hating Satin.

Now that King Bael was helping alongside with Willow's family with the whole stopping abducting Rosemont students Rosalie finally had time in preparing for Charlie's arrival.......

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With all the returned Rosemont students had received proper treatment both physically and mentally it took a few days in properly arranging and as for the far trimester students with the right potions they where able to give birth safely and like Rosalie promise she along with Twilight brought the babies to there demon royal fathers as soon as they where born and or still in the eggs, the process took two days in total even Willow help out which she was more than happy too.

Despite the VERY busy schedule Rosalie managed to get Rosemont set up for Charlie's visit

"Charlie..this is a surprise...you ah didn't tell me your father would be here?" Rosalie wasn't expecting Lucifer to show up with his daughter during her visit to the human world having Lucifer wasn't what she planned.

"Your not thee only one confused Rose."

"I couldn't help but being curious, a Belmont helping hell in was is unheard of."While Lucifer spoke he looked directly at Rosalie

"And if YOUR going to be involved with my daughter I want to make things clear for my own eyes." Rosalie smirked at Lucifer

"I assure you Lucifer I mean your daughter no harm, I've already told you that and you better get use to seeing ME often....now then shall we start the tour?" With that said Rosalie had given the two a tour of her school, from explaining the reason why she made Rosemont and her doing world wide research on thee outcast community along with doing research on other creatures that involve the paranormal that wasn't logged in any of the Belmont books along with Wesen that where still around and having a few of them attending at Rosemont both as staff and students.

"Wesen are very rare, I'm surprised you managed to find some." Lucifer said that but that comment made Charlie confused

"Wesen that's new how come I've never heard of them before?"

"There a species of magical creatures part human/part animal depending, my family was the cause of them dwelling in numbers after house Belmont was founded . Of course back then Wesen where views as gods in some cultures outside of Europe, but around the 15th century things changed a little after my family the killed. Numbers started increasing more but they've gotten better in masking themselves before the 20th century. I got very luck that none of them had gotten abducted." Rosalie explain that to Charlie and of course Charlie was in aw hearing that information and her father stepped in

"Like I've said Wesen are rare, if a one living Wesen where to come to hell they would be VERY valuable depending on the type species. Though if they die and go to hell that value isn't as strong....I'm surprised that Rosalie managed to get just in some of them." Lucifer said that that as the three had entered and walked to the hallway that had the paintings of Rosalie's life

"It wasn't easy but when I offered protection and told the idea of my school when I first made it I gained trust. I actually have several families that are VERY loyal to me after both world wars, I ain't saying names." When Rosalie explained she noticed that Lucifer had stopped and was looking at a painting Rosalie went to him as did Charlie seeing that he was looking at the painting of Rosalie with her parents when her mother was still alive, both Charlie and Rosalie noticed how Lucifer was looking at Rosalie's mother.

"This is your mother?"

"Yes..you got a problem with how she looks?" Rosalie said that being a little offended when she said that Lucifer pointed at Rosalie's mother's golden leaf hair piece 

"Where did you mother get that hair piece? I'm curious?" Rosalie was confused by that question and she answered him while looking at the image of her mother

"It wasn't originally hers apparently it was from her father, that's what her mother told her anyway my mother never knew the man. But I have it now she gave it to me before she died, it's the second only thing I have of her left next to her book." Though that shocked her was the second she looked back at Lucifer he grabbed both sides of her face and looked at her closely 

"Whoa dad what are you doing?"Charlie said that being confused and worried from her father's sudden action

"What the fuck has gotten into you Lucifer? Let go of my face." Without saying anything he removed one of his hand and pressed his palm on Rosalie's forehead which in response a speak of glowing golden light appeared and that made Rosalie very confused when she noticed the glow when he removed his hands off her

"What is this? What the fuck did you do it me?"

"I didn't do that, that's a blessing mark.a powerful one at that. It's been with you for quite a while from the looks of it." Was what Lucifer said and that made Rosalie a little pissed off

"A blessing? I never asked for a blessing I'm still pissed off at those people...how did I ever not notice it before? Can you get rid of it?"

"I can't do it, it has to be the person that gave you that blessing. As for how old it, it appears that it's as old are you are." Him saying that surprised both Charlie and Rosalie

"That's impossible neither my parents or family beside the first Belmont en-counted any of the The Seven Heavenly Virtues, my first encountered with the speaker was when I was around five cause that's when they noticed my powers. How can I have a blessing that's as old as me?" Rosalie said that noticed that the glow on her forehead faded away completely, at that moment Lucifer had opened a portal back to hell

"Dad where are you going?" Charlie questioned and before he went threw the portal he answered her

"To talk to someone I haven't spoken to in a VERY long while."

"Ahh.. Charlie what did you dad mean why that?" Rosalie question Charlie after Lucifer had left and she was just as confused as Rosalie

"I'm not sure, I've never seen him act like that before?" Rosalie shrugged it off and guarded Charlie to a different location

"Happy he left...now I can introduce you to the cherubs, there's dying to meet ya. The same with my allies . I didn't want Lucifer seeing them." Rosalie would figure out the whole blessing thing later, now that she was alone with Charlie she can now give her the tour that she planned with meeting the cherubs that where en charge of the children to even meeting the staff of the school. Not only the staff but the students loved Charlie and Charlie was surprised that Rosalie had thrown her a special party in her alliance with Rosalie, Charlie wasn't shy in telling her story in why she wanted to make a rehabilitation hotel for sinners she even did it in song also. Many that knew Rosalie for a while where surprised with some of the similarities the two had that it almost creeped them out more so seeing how the two got along so well they seemed like sisters from there energy together...

During that time in hell the moment that Lucifer had returned to hell he immanently went underground to a chambers that he hadn't been in a while, he really didn't want to believe it himself but he wanted to hear it with his own ears. He used his powers in created a portal to heaven and using that native language to heaven called out to his older brother ' Michael' from inside the spell circle a figure appeared and that person that Lucifer's younger brother Gabriel

"Gabriel? What are you doing here's I called for Michael specifically?" Where Lucifer's words and Gabriel's responded with

"Michael is busy I'm responding for him." Clearly Lucifer wasn't happy with that but he had to work with what he was given

"If that's the case pass down a little message for him...I know he has a daughter and granddaughter." Him saying that confused Gabriel

"Luci...Michael doesn't have any children and you know that? What makes you think he has a granddaughter let alone a daughter?"

"She had HIS blessing mark...right on her forehead." Those words shocked Gabriel

"Who is she?"

"The very human you people have been trying to get on your side for over five hundred years." Gabriel knew the human he was talking about and didn't want to believe it

"Rosalie Belmont? There's no way, this is a serious accusation you saying. If that's the case that would make her a member of our family." Gabriel said that not believing Lucifer's words but he replied to his younger brother

"When I first fight Rosalie..there was sense of....familiarity with her powers. Plus no human has ever had powers that are so similar to those of Virtues if not the same, it makes sense when you think about it. I'm not for certain it's the reason why she's lived for so long for a human, but it maybe the foundation?"

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"So any ideas with who the blessing might be from Luc?" Not long after Charlie returned to hell Rosalie called her husband and wanted to have her check in his lab that he had set up in the Belmont home Lucrecio did a close exam on Rosalie even he was left puzzled

" It's hard to tell, even I didn't notice this blessing when I first met you? But from the looks of it this type of blessing blessed your soul as well, whoever gave you this must REALLY care about you? This is the first time I've heard of  a blessed soul like this as well as a physical blessing of protection."

"Wait you and I are soul bonded that would means your soul shares that blessing as well...I'm still curious in who it was? I fucking hate those people still and I made a good point to Lucifer." Rosalie said that and Lucrecio questioned her as he helped her up out of the chair she was sitting on and the two started to head out of the lab

"Didn't you tell me he looked at the painting of your mother strange especially with her hair piece? Along with giving you a strange look when he was looking at your eyes?"

"Yay that was really weird, me and Charlie didn't know what was going threw his head. She never saw Lucifer so serious before it kind of worried her after he left...But it got me wondering who he was going to talk too and why my mom's unknown father is involved in this?" Where Rosalie's words as the two left the lab, Lucrecio was grateful to Rosalie for letting him move his lab to the Belmont home for quite a while so no one would go snooping around and finding out about him and Rosalie since he still didn't trust anyone in his castle.

"Do you think that blessing might be a reason why I've lived for this long combined with that meteor's strange energy?" Rosalie questioned that while wrapping her arm around her husband and he replied with

"That would make sense to the matter by we aren't for certain unless we managed to talk to the person that gave you it... we know it was someone from the Seven Heavenly Virtues, maybe one of the ones you haven't spoken too?"

What Lucifer spoke to Gabriel was the truth....a very long time ago Michael fell in love with a human during the middle of the 12 century after he accidentally came to the human world no one else in heaven knew that he came to human since he didn't stay long. It happened in outside of Paris before the construction of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Michael had encountered the Grand Wiccan Blanchefleur. He had heard of wiccans and those of higher rank and some came to heaven but he had ever seen a Grand wiccan as powerful as Blanchefleur, it was her eyes that first captivated him he had never seen a human with orange/gold like eyes that reminded him of a feline and her hair as white as snow and hair so long to dragged behind her feet. But what he loved most about her was her soul, not only was her beautiful on the outside she was beautiful on the inside despite her up bringing...how she was abandoned by her family because of her eyes all accept her grandmother who was also a grand wiccan like herself, the two had bounded in a very short amount of time and fell in love. Michael knew that he couldn't say anything in order to protect Blanchefleur and there unborn child before he left and returned to heaven he had given his lover his golden leaf piece to give to there child and he promised to watch over them, that child was Aurélie. The name was given to her by Michael if Blanchefleur had a daughter, Michael kept his promise in watch and protecting his new family. Though   Blanchefleur died naturally not long after turning 80 years old which was very old during the 12th century but because of Aurélie blood and her soul being blessing to go to heaven she lived over to be two hundred years old and still kept her young appearance even after she met Trever Belmont, she appeared to die at thee age of twenty six when really no one knew that she was over two centuries years old.

Michael had came to earth the night Rosalie was born, he was taken a back see that she had his blue eyes and Blanchefleur unique cat like eyes and half of it's color. He imminently sensed that she also inherited his angelic powers and more because of bloodline that Aurélie didn't get, it did worry him how that a member of his human family had strong morningstar powers. He knew that as soon as her powers became strong that the Seven Heavenly Virtues would want her, he didn't want to risk anyone finding out the real bloodline and he also had a feeling that Rosalie would take offer Blanchefleur headstrong nature just like how her mother inherited it. Michael gave Rosalie a physical blessing after blessing her soul while he was holding her in his arms and she was smiled while looking at him, if she came into VERY serious danger the blessing would protect her in any type of matter like changing her luck. No blessing like that had ever been given to a human and it was very dangerous blessing that wasn't allowed to be given especially to mortals thus he had given her a forbidden blessing, Michael had watched Rosalie growing up from the shadows sort of speak and he shapeshifted to different types of animals and even different types of humans in being around his daughter and granddaughter. Whether it was posing as a servant or even a knight it didn't matter to him, he made certain that he wasn't caught by any of his siblings even after the speaker first met Rosalie. 

Even after Aurélie died and went to heaven he didn't met her as much as he wanted too, he still wanted to protect his daughter. But when the Belmont family was killed off by humanity he knew he had to do something, he broke the rules he convinced the other virtues in bringing the Belmont souls to heaven in a way of saving them in hopes in convincing Rosalie in joining there ranks even the souls that where in hell. It wasn't allowed but they where a little despite in willing over Rosalie because they didn't want her powers falling into hell's hands, after the rest of the Belmont family was killed there souls went to heaven and with a little work the Belmont's that where in hell where taken to heaven out of satin's eyes since the Belmont's where in hiding in hell.

When Rosalie went into hiding after she came back to life Michael kept a very close eye on her over the centuries and he stayed be her side as well posing as one of her companions when she first came to the new world, he was happy seeing that Rosalie was so much like her grandmother in helping people and wanting to help better humanity..The day when Lucifer fought Rosalie Michael along with the other Virtues watched the battle, in honesty Michael was taken a back with just how powerful Rosalie was. It remember him of when he fought Lucifer, though he sensed that she could have killed him and held back with him because of his daughter. 

During the middle of the 18th century Michael was shocked to see that Rosalie had fallen in love with a demon prince, he hoped that she would choose a human but it was the complete opposite. But after seeing the real him and seeing how different he was along with him proving his undying love and loyalty to Rosalie he approved of there marriage and even witnessed it person posing as an animal, Michael even helped with the construction of Rosemont during it's building and other projects that Rosalie worked in bettering humanity and wanted change.

He did give Cordelia a blessing without either Rosalie or Lucrecio noticing as a gift to his great granddaughter, Michael really did want to show himself to Rosalie but didn't know how it was tough more so that Rosalie married into the Ars Goetia family and her child did the same with marrying the Grand Duke's family and Cordelia's son married Willow and then Cordelia's daughter married two humans. He was so shocked seeing the Advika looked just like Aurélie but with pointed ears and having Rosalie's long hair genetics and inherited some of his angelic powers at a young age just like Rosalie did, he knew it was a matter of time before it started noticing and he didn't know what would happen......

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With the way Lucifer acted towards Rosalie, it still confused her as it did with Charlie. Rosalie did talk to Willow and Twilight about what had happened and they where just as confused more so with Twilight hearing about the blessing, Willow in returned was weirded out by that now that she was a part of Rosalie's family. 

Not long after that communication talk Willow had a scheduled meeting with King Bael alongside with her husband now that they where allies, originally the grand duke's family was allied with with paimon but after the little battle with Rosalie they switched to being allied with Bael instead. King Bael enjoyed the company of the Grand Dukes family, he was even introduced to Cordelia and Eros since he was now one of the very few demons that knew the truth. Cordelia herself was happy that there was another demon ally that wasn't afraid or hated the Belmont's bloodline, Cordelia even introduced Harmonia to him. Because she looked thee most like Rosalie even in her demon form she didn't go out much even after she married her husband and wife, because of her human half like Advika she too turns into a human during full moons and was thee spitting image of Rosalie. She wasn't thee only one Eadwardsone also turned to his human form but during new moons and he resembled Rosalie's father in his human form, since that new alliance things where slowly starting to change in the Ars Goetia families to the changes that Lucrecio had wanted with wanted to help instead of making things a little miserable. Prince Stolas was on board with some of the new changes and even supported them unlike Stella but Octavia liked the ideas as well and with supporting as well, the changes that where happening with the goetia family even made it to low class demon's ears that surprised them...

Speaking of which about the goetia family one of them that had a human really missed her even though she escaped, that goetia was Marquis Bylur. He really did fall in love with her, Adrianna wasn't like anyone he had ever meet she was the embodiment of fire itself that drew himself to her. Even after all the abducted Rosemont students where brought back to the living world and even the new born children where brought Bylur still never forgot Adrianna and he wanted to do something and that's what he did......

"Congratulations in graduating Adrianna."Rosalie said that to Adrianna, what she said was the truth it was few days past the who Lucifer thing and it didn't stop with the new graduating class with Adrianna being one of the students since she skipped a grade, the two had met in Rosalie's office after the speech ceremony.

"Thank you very much Ma'am. But is that all you wanted to talk about?" Where Adrianna's words and Rosalie spoke while holding her hand up and used her magic in summoning what looked like a contract with Adrianna as Rosalie walked up to her

"I know you don't have anyone else, it's also been a while since I've done this. Adrianna McMillan. How would like to be a member of the Belmont family?" Her saying that really shocked Adrianna and it showed on her face

"You...want to adopt me? Really?" While Rosalie answered she rolled up the paper that was really an adopting certificate with a blank space 

"It's your choose Adrianna? I would love to have you as my daughter and making my family grow." Adrianna was completely lost for words, she would have never had thought that Rosalie Belmont wanted to adopt her. It made her happy and she signed the certificate afterwards the two hugged and Rosalie welcomed her into the Belmont family, Rosalie moved Adrianna's things to her estate in New Orleans rather than the Belmont home in France.

"So? Do I call you Mom now?" Adrianna jokey said that to Rosalie who giggled

"You can call me Rose if you want? Anyway now that your an adopted Belmont I might as well introduce you to my husband and my daughter well your stepsister now." Rosalie saying that surprised Adrianna

"Your married? And already have a daughter?"  

"I already told them both about this, Cordelia always wanted a younger sibling and my husband is always supportive of my choices. I think you'll fit right on in?" Adrianna was very curious but then it turned into shocked when it was revealed to her that Rosalie Belmont married into the Goetia family and seeing her daughter was half human, Rosalie explained everything to Adrianna. The more Rosalie told her story the more Adrianna understood Rosalie's feelings for Lucrecio even after he told his story before he met Rosalie, Adrianna now had a full understanding of the real Ars Goetia family and she also liked the ideas Lucrecio had in wanted to make a difference for the greater good....

"You adopted?" Charlie shouted that to Rosalie in shocked after Rosalie introduced Adrianna to her at the Hazbin Hotel, the rest of the members of the hotel where just as surprised as Charlie

"I sure did, allow me to officially introduce my adopted daughter Adrianna McMillan Belmont. It's been a few centuries since I adopted someone into my family." While Rosalie was talking she looked at Adrianna

"And Adrianna I'd like for you to meet my new friend and business partner Princess Charlotte Morningstar or Charlie for short." After saying that Vaggie questioned Rosalie

"Is she..anything like you ma'am?"

"A Grand White Witch." Alastor perked up hearing that from Rosalie

"Now that's just as rare as yourself Rosalie." Rosalie glared at Alastor who still had the Chester cat grin on her face

"Don't get any ideas Alastor, with some training she'll be doing she'll easily handle overlords like yourself."

Rosalie meant what she said, but instead of herself Cordelia wanted to teach Adrianna how to fight and how to use the Belmont weapons. Adrianna didn't stay in hell long since she wasn't use to it and didn't want to be reminded of her abductor, but Rosalie stayed at the Hazbin Hotel and was enjoying a few drinks at the bar.

"Fuck lady, you can hold your alcohol?" Husker said that being amazed how easy Rosalie was handling her booze after her fifth strong drink

"I've been a live for centuries I think I can handle this?" Using her magic she summoned a bottle of wine and the bottle caught Husker's and Angel Dust's attention when he came to the bar seeing the bottle was shaped like a rose stem and seeing the age on the glass

"Usually looking wine bottle, looks old?" 

"It is old, I made THIS brand not long after I settled in New Orleans. I don't sell this since it took a few hundred years in aging, I got like a tone of these things half of them I've aged in sea water which was where THIS bottle is from. You boys want a try it?" With that said that using her levitating magic Rosalie pouring the wine in three wine glasses and offered one each to the two demons who where surprised by what was happening, then one glass turned to an almost empty bottle and husker passed out drunk on the floor. Rosalie was feeling the alcohol to her head while she was pouring another glass for herself and Angel Dust 

"Man, this is thee best wine I've ever had. Wish I had something like this before I died." Angel Dust said that before he drank his glass 

"I keep this type of wine hidden or as a very special gift, I gave a bottle to Willow on her wedding." Rosalie said that after he finished pouring all that was left of the bottle and just as he finished she accidentally dropped the lid

"Damn it, I need to keep the lid." When she got it she didn't notice that Angel Dust had put a type of drug in her wine and was fast enough for her not to see it when she picked up the lip and put it back in the bottle 

"I reuse the bottles, saves me a little effort." Rosalie then drank the wine and finished it off and started feeling a little tipsy and her head spinning

"Man it's been a while since I drank this mu..." She didn't finish her sentence as she black out due to the drugs that was in her drink and Angel Dust had a guilty look on his face as he picked her up using two of his arms and in his other hand was texting someone while he was heading to the front door

" I'm sorry Rose, I really am. You've been great, but I ain't got no other choice."

What Angel Dust referred was Valentino, he had ordered Angel Dust to bring Rosalie to him the next time he saw her and to get her to take a special drug he had made just for her. The person Angel Dust texted was Valentino saying that he had Rosalie drugged and drunk, of course it didn't take Valentino long for him to arrive at the hotel in his limousine.

"Gotta say Val...this is the first time I've seen ya so....gentle with someone. Guess ya really do care about her still?" Angel Dust said that to Valentino seeing that he was gently rubbing the top of Rosalie's head while she was still passed out and her head on his lap, Angel was sitting on the opposite of Valentino the moment the vehicle started moving. 

"~Don't get used to seeing this, it's been a long while with me.~" Valentino said that not looking at Angel Dust and smiling down at Rosalie while his fingers ran threw her very long hair and even taking it out the very long braid she had it in and couldn't help put caressing her cheek and admiring the warmth

"~It's been so long since I've felt living flesh, she feels just like how I remember."

Yes Angel Dust was nervous but he was more terrified when Rosalie would wake up and realize what happened, he really didn't want to dye by Rosalie Belmont's hands. But at the same time the situation fascinated him, he had never seen Valentino act the way he was with Rosalie. It was clear that he still had feelings for her even after he died and came to hell, but Angel Dust was more curious in what was going to happen afterwards. Yes Rosalie is a VERY powerful being but he wondered how Valentino was going to managed with someone like her along with her allied when they hear that she had been abducted.

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