War for Rosamund's Honor
The War for Rosamund's Honor is a series of international, intercontinental, and internecine disputes and conflicts beginning 1700, involving Princess Rosamund of the House of Santiago-Santander.
Background
Effective 1697, to strengthen diplomatic ties, Her Serene and Eminent Imperial Highness, The Princess Rosamund of Molivadia and Arboria, Princess of Constancia, Lady of the Holy Lakes, Scion of the King of Kings, was appointed Imperial Constancian Ambassador to the Imperial Republic of Shireroth, in a role similar to that taken by then-Princess Olympia, who was, for a time, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Imperial State of Constancia to the Bovic Empire of the Natopian Nation.
At the time of her appointment, as the eldest daughter of Primo de Aguilar, Autokrator of Constancia and Princess Esmeralda al-Osman, she was seen as heir apparent to her mother's dignities as Princess of Arboria in Natopia and Viscountess of Lumenetra in the Duchy of the Guttuli, Shireroth, both with significant territorial holdings; as well as heir presumptive to her father's dignity as Duke of Santiago in Nouvelle Alexandrie, as well as heir presumptive to her father's dignity as Prince of Molivadia in the Imperial State of Constancia.
Aside from these titles and honors, she was politically and economically influential due to her concurrently being an Imperial Senator in the Imperial Synklētos and member of the Council of Molivadia of the Imperial State of Constancia, a member of the Council of Arboria, a luminary of and Tribune Cohortis / Ahmst Tazstraneï of the Nationalist & Humanist Party, Scrivener-General and member of the Court of Directors of the Society of the Sacred Lakes, Vice Chair and member of the Board of Directors of Oranjesion Private Equity Capital, Vice Chair of the Princess Isabella Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors of the Osman-Aguilar Holdings Corporation, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Duke of Santiago Foundation, Tagmatarchis (Major) in the Molivadian Home Guard and civil-military operations officer (S-9) of the Princess Isabella's Own Volunteers. In sports, she was, next to her mother, a prominent member of the Imperial Constancian Tzykanion Association, as well as Patron of the Arboria Polo Federation. She was also alumna of the Sarayzenana and Dabirestân-e Pardanashin, Eliria University College and an undisclosed Aldurian university in light of the Second Elwynnese Civil War. This did not yet include the personal monetary wealth of her father as revealed by the Iron Harbour Papers.
On her 27th birthday, 22.VI.1700, she was invested as Duchess of Mar Sara, in the peerage of the Principality of Arboria of the Bovic Empire of the Natopian Nation, with pre-eminence, by her mother in a ceremony at Tirlar, and formally declared Vicegerent of the Principality of Arboria as well as Heiress Apparent.
The next day, her father the Autokrator of Constancia issued a Decree confirming her succession to the Principality of Molivadia after her brother, Prince Iñigo.
Inception
Determination of a future groom for the only daughter of the Autokrator of Constancia was paramount since her birth, as evidenced by the creation of a Betrothal Desk in the Private Chancellery of the Office of the Autokrator mere days after her birth.
Unfolding of Events
Public notice of these events began with the chicha press speculation regarding the change in the Princess-Ambassador's close-in bodyguards. Legally entitled to personnel from the State Protection Authority as Imperial Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, as well as being a Constancian princess, a few royal watchers noted that while the State Protection Authority remained, albeit forming the external perimeter, her close-in bodyguards were now Arboreal Guard personnel of the Natopian Defense Force, as evidenced by the uniquitous Thworpper observed by keen watchers.
Months later, on the 66th anniversary of the Pact of Perpetual Friendship between the Kingdom of Constancia and the Bovic Empire of the Natopian Nation [1], 19.VII.1700, at midmorning, joint press conferences were held in Lindström City and Astérapolis announcing the betrothal of His Imperial Highness The Lord Utas Enrique Naian, Prince of Shireroth, Progeny of the Once-Living God, Knight of the Holy Lakes, Scion of the King of Kings to Her Serene and Eminent Imperial Highness, The Princess Rosamund of Molivadia and Arboria, Princess of Constancia, Duchess of Mar Sara, Lady of the Holy Lakes, Scion of the King of Kings. A subsequent announcement revealed that in happy celebration of this occasion, the Autokrator of Constancia was pleased to promote his daughter and eldest to the Imperial Constancian Army rank of Sarhang (Colonel), attached to the Military Household of the Autokrator.
In late 1700, Princess Rosamund, concurrent Ambassador of the Imperial State of Constancian to the Imperial Republic of Shireroth, was confirmed by the chicha press to be in a relationship with Lord Patrick Montgomery Wythe, grandson of Chrysostom Wythe, Count of Woodshire, Viscount Holly-Wythe, and was likewise rumored to be pregnant with his child.
The next day, 16.IX.1700, the Imperial Natopian Ambassador to Constancia was recalled to Lindström "for consultations". The day after that, the Imperial Constancian Ambassador to Natopia was summoned to Astérapolis. The Imperial Constancian Ambassador to Shireroth - Princess Rosamund herself - was very publicly recalled to Astérapolis as well, alongside a sudden Imperial Constancian Navy deployment to the southwestern Shirerithian sea lanes.
On 19.IX.1700, the Imperial Constancian Government announced the sudden addition of a 10% trade tariff on imports from Shireroth, effective immediately, and regretted that due to security and merchant traffic concerns, Shirerithian merchant ships would have to dock at Nivardom in lieu of transit through the Gulf of Aqaba, for the meantime. A significant number of Shirerithian tourists were likewise unceremoniously deported due to various violations of the Criminal Code.
