Princess Stacy

Princess **Stacy Juliette De Novo Wyndham**, (born **Stacy De Novo**) is a member of the Belgravian Royal Family. She is married to Prince Edward, heir apparent to the throne.

## Princess Stacy

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Edward & Princess Stacy on the occasion of their marriage.

### Nation

* Belgravia
* United States of America

### Occupation

* Princess of Belgravia
* Baker

## Ancestry

Stacy and Queen Margaret of Montenaro share the belief that they are distantly related. One scholar has mapped the potential relationship. It is known that at least part of Princess Stacy's family comes from the Philippines .

## Marriage to Prince Edward

Prince Edward of Belgravia was originally engaged to Margaret, The Duchess of Montenaro, but subsequently met and fell in love with Stacy, who was present in Belgravia for the 56th Annual International Christmas Baking Competition. Simultaneously, Margaret met and fell in love with Stacy's sous chef Kevin Richards. Both couples subsequently married and enjoy close friendships. The marriage of Prince Edward and Stacy De Novo took place a year after their initial meeting.

## Wedding Cake and Support for Same-Sex Marriage

The wedding cake, which is assumed by many to have been baked by Stacy herself, prominently features two deer with their antlers intertwined, as if in love. This has been taken by some as a tacit sign of the princess's support for same-sex marriage, given that among female cervids, only the cow *Rangier tarandus* (reindeer, also known as caribou in North America) experience antlerogenesis under typical circumstances. Though the single-color profile illustration of the animals on the cake precludes close morphological examination and obscures clues that may be derivable from the pelage, the impression given both by the antler shape and the animals overall is much more consistent with *Cervus elaphus* (red deer) than with *R. tarandus* (see Table 1). Additionally, the range of *C. elaphus* encompasses Belgravia, while *R. tarandus* is confined to more northerly regions of Eurasia. As a native of Chicago, Princess Stacy might be most familiar with *Odocoileus virginianus* (the white-tailed or Virginia deer), the state mammal of Illinois and the state's only native deer. Further, *O. virginianus* is not only the most common cervid in North America, but the most widely-distributed ungulate as well. The deer depicted on the cake may therefore be intended to represent *O. virginianus,* though the antler morphology argues against this interpretation, and because the does of the species (and indeed, all female cervids other than *R. tarandus*) present with antlers only rarely (likely due to highly elevated testosterone). Further, the antlers on the cake's smaller cervid appear large and well-formed rather than the relatively small, underdeveloped, and unhardened antlers typical in antlered *O. virginianus* does.

That the animals on the wedding cake are depicted as both bearing antlers simultaneously may further argue against the reindeer hypothesis, given that by the time of the wedding (Christmas Day), *R. tarandus* bulls in most areas have typically cast their antlers by late fall or early winter, while the cows retain their antlers into the spring, using them to uncover food during the winter months to support healthy pregnancies (see Table 2). This raises the interesting possibility that both depicted animals may be intended to be *R. tarandus **cows***, again a possible sign of support of the princess' support for same-sex marriage. Alternatively, this could be intended to symbolize her close personal friendship with Margaret of Montenaro, particularly as Margaret was responsible for introducing Stacy to Prince Edward. However, the morphology of both the antlers and the animals overall argues against the possibility of two *R. tarandus* cows. The conclusion that best fits the available data is that the animals depicted are two *C. elaphus* males (i.e., red deer stags).

## Foreign Relations

Stacy is a close friend and possible relative of Queen Margaret of Montenaro. Princess Stacy and Prince Edward were present in Montenaro for the coronation of Queen Margaret and each played decisive roles in thwarting the attempted coup associated with Margaret's accession. Stacy, who had been kidnapped after she was mistaken for Margaret at the Montenaro Children's Choir Christmas concert, managed to escape her captivity in an undercroft storage area at Pembroke Estate. She was pursued by retainers of Lady Fiona Pembroke but managed to trap one and elude a second long enough reach the rescue party led by Edward and Margaret. Edward physically subdued Stacy's pursuer, allowing the group to return swiftly to Montenaro National Cathedral to disrupt the attempted coronation of Lady Fiona.

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