29-06-2025, 04:11 PM
HBC BREAKING NEWS - KING ALEXANDER III & QUEEN MADELINE PERISH IN ACCIDENT OVER LAGARD
Backdated: November 5651
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Backdated: November 5651
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CONSTANTINE, LAGARD - Tragedy struck in the Macon Mountains of Lagard as it has been confirmed that the Royal Jet, carrying His Majesty King Alexander III and his wife, Queen Madeline. Contact was lost with the plane as it returned from Tremaine, Falristan to Bekenial, Adelia. The King and the Queen were on a visit to the Onwari First Nation visiting with the Chief. The King has made it a point of visiting Falristan once a year to visit with the Assembly of Six Nations, in an effort to continue to uphold the treaties between the Mashacara and the Crown.
Details are still sketchy, but the Hutorian Air Security and Transportation Agency, the regulating agency for all air travel in Hutori, has confirmed that that the Royal Jet, a Jetstream Aerospace Jet-IV executive, had a severe mechanical issue which led to engine failure and the downing of the jet. There were no survivors of the crash. With the King and Queen was Michael Callum, the Principal Secretary to the Sovereign, and Caleb Eastwood, the Minister of Crown-Indigenious Relations, who are representing the government during the ceremony.
Prime Minister Jason LeClerc has declared a national month of mourning over the loss of the King and Queen and shut down Parliament and the Senate. Members of the Royal Family have been recalled from across Terra for the funeral, including His Highness, Prince James, the Hutorian Ambassador to Kalistan and his children. Princess Natasha, Prince James' eldest daughter has been reportedly granted leave from her National Service to attend the funeral, while Prince James delievered the invitation to the funeral to the Empress personally.
Invitations have gone out internationally to other heads of state to attend the funeral.
Crown Princess Arianna, who was attending the Universite Royalle, in Eroncourt, was immediately escorted back to Hutori. It has been reported she will be taking her own name as her Regnal Name, placing her as Queen Arianna I. Her Majesty is 22 years old, and the youngest monarch to sit on the throne of Hutori since the time of King Henry I, in 3900.
The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen.
Details are still sketchy, but the Hutorian Air Security and Transportation Agency, the regulating agency for all air travel in Hutori, has confirmed that that the Royal Jet, a Jetstream Aerospace Jet-IV executive, had a severe mechanical issue which led to engine failure and the downing of the jet. There were no survivors of the crash. With the King and Queen was Michael Callum, the Principal Secretary to the Sovereign, and Caleb Eastwood, the Minister of Crown-Indigenious Relations, who are representing the government during the ceremony.
Prime Minister Jason LeClerc has declared a national month of mourning over the loss of the King and Queen and shut down Parliament and the Senate. Members of the Royal Family have been recalled from across Terra for the funeral, including His Highness, Prince James, the Hutorian Ambassador to Kalistan and his children. Princess Natasha, Prince James' eldest daughter has been reportedly granted leave from her National Service to attend the funeral, while Prince James delievered the invitation to the funeral to the Empress personally.
Invitations have gone out internationally to other heads of state to attend the funeral.
Crown Princess Arianna, who was attending the Universite Royalle, in Eroncourt, was immediately escorted back to Hutori. It has been reported she will be taking her own name as her Regnal Name, placing her as Queen Arianna I. Her Majesty is 22 years old, and the youngest monarch to sit on the throne of Hutori since the time of King Henry I, in 3900.
The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen.
