Katharina XII of Angvar
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| Katharina XII | |||||
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.jpg) Formal photograph of Katharina XII by Gottliebe von Stroheim, summer 2014 | |||||
| Empress over All the Angvars (more...) | |||||
| Reign | 30 January 2016—present | ||||
| Coronation | 2 August 2017 | ||||
| Predecessor | Charles IV | ||||
| Heir apparent | Conrad Frederick Louis, Crown Prince Imperial | ||||
| Empress consort over All the Angvars | |||||
| Tenure | 29 July 2007—30 January 2016 | ||||
| Coronation | 19 December 2007 | ||||
| Born | Lady Katharina von Beintrussel 20 April 1984 St. Winifred's Hospital, Gol'kôg, Gau Vitebellia | ||||
| Spouse | Charles IV (m. 2007; died 2016) | ||||
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| Father | Ernst Heribert Beintrussel, 17th Marquis Beintrussel | ||||
| Mother | Lady Johanna Khâz'gorôkh | ||||
| Religion | Keanuism (Angvarian Cathericism) | ||||
Katharina XII (Adelheid Brunhilde Clotilde Cunegunde Ermengarde Gisela Katharina Margaret Winifred; born 20 April 1984) is Empress of Angvar. She is the first monarch from a non-ruling noble family rather from the Angvarian imperial family, having acceded to the Great Arcane Throne upon the death of her late husband, Charles IV on 30 January 2016 and crowned herself on 19 August the following year.
Born to the distinguished Beintrussel family in Gol'kôg, Vitebellia Governorate, the future Katharina XII is the third of seven daughters of Ernst Heribert, Marquis of Beintrussel and Lady Johanna Khâz'gorôkh, and was known as "Katy" to her family and close friends. The siblings moved to Novigard where she was educated at Khâr'shúbskaï Boarding School and attended Ravensbruck, Ghôlronk and Ûdmir Colleges. While working as an assistant librarian for three years in the Rhâgrosh Quarter of the city, she was summoned to Mordegard as one of the ladies-in-waiting to the Dowager Empress Liselotte. It was there when, in the summer of 2005, she met the Crown Prince Imperial, Charles Eberhard, who then became Charles IV at the death of his father, Frederick VII; their marriage lasted eight years until his unexpected death in 2016 from serious complications of bronchitis. They had three children, namely: Conrad Frederick, the heir apparent; Filibert Helmut, and Adelheid. When her husband died, she ensured that their eldest child was not expected to inherit the throne at a 'fragile' age in spite of being the heir apparent.
As Empress consort, she undertakes official duties on behalf of her husband. She is a patron, president or member of several hundred academic organizations. An avid enjoyer of symphonic, easy listening and light music, she is a friend of and patron to composers Helmut Pebblefrow and Ezzio Rossi and holds the position of Principal Conductor of the Imperial Angvarian Symphony Ensemble to this day. As monarch, she holds the ultimate commanding authority over the Imperial Armed Forces as Supreme Commander-in-Chief, plays the role of supreme representation of the Empire in global relations, and is the Sovereign and Supreme Head and Pontiff over the Angvarian Ecumenical Catheric Church.
On 31 January 2016, Katharina proclaimed herself Empress at St. Morgana's Basilica. Two years since her coronation, she initiated an anti-subversion campaign, causing the dismissal and consecutive liquidation of a large number of government officials suspected of dissent and treason. She presided over the show trial of Hildebrand Thalmann, the son of Social Republican leader Helmut Thalmann, who was convicted of the assassination of Albert IV, and whose execution on 1 May 2018 along with seventy-two conspirators was met with growing violent opposition to the monarchy. The military crackdown on the 2018 Lagrath Square protests, the summary execution of leading pro-democracy activists, the construction of additional prison camps across Transudelia and the ennoblement of convicted war criminal Klaus Archambaud as marquis and controversial Infernian-born writer and esotericist Libitina Bartley-Wolff as countess earned her condemnation from the global community. During the tenure of the Duke of Doth as Lord High Chancellor of Angvar and First Lord of the Privy Council, she gave assent to the elimination of political privileges of the Church seen as pretext for subversion while investing Pope Theodacus V Decius and appointing him to the Privy Council, for which she was heavily criticized by advocates of religious liberty as borderline intensifying caesaropapism. She re-asserted control over Curvania in quelling the June Mutiny, ordered a military intervention in the Ostenian Realm against syndicalist and integralist rebel groups, and issued an edict prohibiting the Maulland Sea Trade Union Group from gathering due to the 2021 Vladivoyna Shipyard Incident.
Katharina ruled as a totalitarian monarch with unrestrainable absolute power, maintaining the same cult of personality her leadership followed as her husband and previous Angvarian sovereigns.
Early life
Katharina was born on 20 April 1984
Public life
As lady-in-waiting
Marriage
As Empress consort
Rule as Empress
Accession and coronation
Trial of Hildebrand P. Thalmann
Acceleration of mass dissent
Investiture of Pope Theodacus V
Titles, styles, honours and arms
Titles and styles
| Styles of Empress Katharina XII of Angvar | |
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| Reference style | Her Most Auspicious Majesty |
| Spoken style | Your Most Auspicious Majesty |
| Alternative style | Mistress |
- 20 April 1984 – 11 March 2019: The Lady Katharina de Beintrussel
- 11 March 2019 — present: Her Exceeding Most Exceptionally, Most Extraordinarily and Most Preeminently Auspicious Majesty The Empress
Full style
Most High, most Potent and most Excellent Princess, KATHARINA, the eleventh of Her Name, over All the Angvars and of Her Dominions and other Territories Empress; Autocrat over All under Heaven; Sovereign of Sovereigns and Despot of Despots; Supreme Overlord of All the Omniverse who alone is the perfect incarnation of the Divine Countenance that a ruler should possess, commanding the tremors of the Earth and the tides of the Seas and the winds of the Air to Her bidding; Sovereign of the Most Sublime House of Gellert with the Splendor of Conan reigning over Two Seas and Two Lands, of the Great Citadel and of the Great See and of the Great Throne of All the Cimmerias, Invincible and Venerable One divinely crowned, who rules over all the nations and peoples upon the face of all the earth; Empress of the Four Cities of Mordegard, of Novigard, of Sebastople, and of Gorgoroth; Empress of Khând, of Astarkan, of Transudelian Ursh, of the Tarkan Chersonesos, of Valachia, of Curvania, of Percunia, Rendusia, and of Jönneland; Sovereign Duchess of Porkhaï, of Smogrîsh, of Kharghash, of Vakhthang, of Lurtz, of Nogrash, of Khilluk, of Khorghash, of Shagrath, of Nogroth, of Vokthash, of Vogrish, of Azagholuk, of Gminush, of Zorgog...
Family
Issue
| Image | Name | Birth | Notes | |
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| By Charles IV of Angvar (29 July 1983 — 30 January 2016, married on 16 December 2007) | ||||
| Conrad Frederick Louis, Crown Prince Imperial of Angvar | 26 April 2010 | |||
| Prince Reinhard Walther, Duke of D'hôrghâr | 29 August 2013 | |||
| Princess Adelheid, Duchess of Porghaï | 12 January 2015 | |||