Estate of Basilinna Esmeralda
The estate of Basilinna Esmeralda was a matter of intense private national and international speculation, immediately after the Death of Basilinna Esmeralda.
The individual
Esmeralda al-Osman was Educated at the School of Erudition in the eponymous Shirerithian port city under the Agnesia-Alalehzamin and Holodomatic systems. Joined the Nationalist and Humanist Youth Organization in 1657, joined the Nationalist and Humanist Party in 1659.
Unveiled at the mass wedding held in Arg-e Daniyal on the island of Mirioth in 1659. First pregnancy ended in a miscarriage in the following year. 1661–1663 attended Political Officers course held at the Imperial Military Academy (Fort Foley), Shirekeep, majoring in poliorcetica and population management theory. From 1663 to 1664 Acting Archon of the Circuit of Benacia in the stead of her husband, Harry Payne, until his demise in a terrorist outrage in Shirekeep. Granted compassionate leave from the service of the State of Modan. Guest of the Autokrator of Constancia whilst on extended tour of Eura, the ancestral homeland of the House of Osman. Appointed to the ESB residency in the port of Aqaba by her brother. Appointed to command of the SATCo Ithonion Facility by her mother. Appointed Daryāsālār (Vice-Admiral) of the Gulf of Aqaba by the Khan of Raspur, who didn't want to miss out. The cumulative effect of these appointments and bestowals, largely unsought but insisted upon nonetheless, had been to create in the person of Esmeralda someone approximating a vice-regent for the Raspur Pact in the strategic Gulf of Aqaba region.
She was confirmed as Director of the Euran Directorate and Member of the Board of Directors of ESB-Jörmungandr Group, Inc., effective 1668.
Her marriage in 1673 to the Autokrator of Constancia resulted in her being raised to Constancian nobility, with the style of Princess of Molivadia. Subsequently commissioned Antinavarchos (Vice Admiral) in the Imperial Constancian Navy with a billet in the Military Household of the Autokrator the same day.
She has a daughter, Rosamund, and a son, Iñigo.
She subsequently and successfully asserted her hereditary claim to the Principality of Arboria, resulting in the Consensus of Government 1676, and she reconstituted responsible government in the domains otherwise left unattended by the moribund Council of Arboria, which she dissolved and reconstituted.
As a part of her regime for recovering her health in the aftermath of two difficult pregnancies, the Princess of Molivadia, as an accomplished rider, took up the sport of chovgan. Keen with the whip, she rode in a team formed from her own retinue as one of the beaters, and later became a dedicated patroness of the sport, promoting its spread amongst upper society in Molivadia and Arboria.
Inherited shares, and therefore became shareholder of the Transegale Trading Company. Elected one of three members of the Board of Directors of the Transegale Trading Company on 7.VI.1684 to succeed the deceased sole director Isabella Simrani-Kalirion.
Founder of the Osman-Aguilar Holdings Corporation, registered in Nivardom and Raspur, in late 1686. Granted OF-10 commissions as Stratárchis (Field Marshal) in the Imperial Constancian Army, Grand Admiral of the Fleets in the Imperial Constancian Navy, and Marshal of the Imperial Constancian Air Force effective 14.I.1704, on the ascension of the Basileus Giakoumis and her ascension as Basileusa of the Imperial State of Constancia, before the opening session of the 11th Imperial Synkletos at Petropolis. Subsequently appointed Autokráteira of Constancia.
Elected Chairwoman of the Honorable Company on 1.III.1704, at a Special Meeting of the Board of Directors in Fontainebleau, Alduria, Nouvelle Alexandrie. Acknowledged as new commander of the 1634th ESB-Jörmungandr Division, 505th Army (Aqabah Province), in change of command ceremonies at Aqaba the next day.
Upon notice of the Death of King Manco Cápac I and Basileus Giakoumis on 17.II.1718, she immediately acceded as Basilinna of the Imperial State of Constancia in her own right, in accordance with Article 17 of the Magna Carta and the Imperial House Law.
Awarded the Order of the Dragon "for exceptional contributions to the Imperial Republic," as Victory Honours.
In the course of this long and powerful career, she had managed to amass a great deal of wealth and temporalities in her own right.
Settlement of the Estate
A subdued report was published, again, by The Cárdenas Press approximately one month later.
The known facts are as follows:
- The Last Will and Testament was published as an even-rarer Imperial Decree, issued in the full capacity of Basilinna of the Imperial State of Constancia.
- The firm of Zollinger Kirchner & Co. stood as executor of the will, with the assistance of the Ministry for Crown Lands and the Ministry of the Imperial Household.
- Witnesses to the document were Prince Iñigo, Prince of Molivadia, Princess Rosamund, and then-Mesazon Ardashir Bābakān-e Osman
- No final amount was given, but the total estate is estimated to value approximately 36 billion Craitish Cräite.
- Normally this type of procedure would go through the judicial system. As the deceased was a former sovereign, these amounts were not subject to taxes, and this process quietly took place instead at Asterapolis.
- No sums were publicized, but some banks were named as having been depositories. Among these are Bank of Molivadia, Commercial Bank of Shahzamin, ESB Bank, the Imperial & Emirati Bank of Alalehzamin and Constancia, the Imperial and Emirati Bank of the Sathrati Islands, the Imperial Constancian Postal Savings Bank. People's Bank of Zeed, Ransenar Commercial and Industrial Bank, Savings Bank of Constancia. Special mention was made of the secretive Blackfriars Bank, already mentioned in the Iron Harbour Papers.
- What is known is that the 'share' of Princess Rosamund was directly given to the Princess Rosamund Foundation, an entity which had already achieved some notoriety after the Lesser and Lesser Constancians affair a few years back.
