Amaltheia of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune

## Amaltheia of Vusairith-Meiningen-IoccerunePrincess AmaltheiaPrincess d'OrléansNatalya de BeauharnaisDuchess Josephine in Bavaria

**Princess Amaltheia Marie Valerie Matthew Amalie Octavia Clementine Justine Maddison of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune** (Modern Greek: Αμάλθεια Μαρία Βαλερί Ματθαίος Αμάλι Οκταβία Κλημεντίνη Ιουστίν Μάντισον, *Amáltheia María Valerí Matthaíos Amáli Oktavía Klimentíni Ioustín Mántison*; born 24 November 1896 in Claire Manor House, Târgoviște, Romanian Empire) is the eldest daughter of Prince Draco of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune and his sister-wife Princess Luna of Vusairith-Meiningen. Due to her parents being closely-related as brother and sister, ultimately as first-cousins (of the 0 generation), Amaltheia has only one set of grandparents [maternally and paternally]. Through her mother, she is a granddaughter of Grand Duchess Aria of Vusairith-Meiningen and her spouse Prince Berwald III of Vusairith-Meiningen. Through her grandmother, she is a direct descendant of Empress Vemira, whom herself was the eldest daughter of the deities: King Hermes and his consort Queen Althaea of the Greek island of Crete. Through the second-eldest [third child and third-born daughter of her parents] of her younger siblings the Vusairithian-Meiningenian princess Andromeda, she is an sister-in-law to Princess Khloe of Greece and Denmark (a daughter of King George I of Greece and his consort Olga Constantinovna of Russia). She became one of the many grandmothers to all three of Khloe and Andromeda`s children (Xenia, Talia and Chloe) upon their births, bestowing them with many gifts and generally spoiling them when they were entrusted to her care. In 12 December 1925, her first consort/spouse, her sister-wife Princess Amara of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune died from an successful assassination attempt at the hands of an unknown assailant of Czech nationality, sparking protests in the German Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She married several years later to Princess Marie Valerie Victoria of Orléans, Princess Marie de Beauharnais, Princess Hortense de Beauharnais, Princess Ida Alix Sophie Charlotte Augustine in Bavaria and Princess Valerie of Orléans. Her only issue (lineal descendant/child/daughter) from her first marriage to her sister-wife Amara, was Princess Marie Louise of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune and her first-born child and eldest daughter`s half-sister is Hortense, Grand Duchess of Baden (born to her by Marie Valerie of Orléans). Aside from her two eldest children, she has no other children though her wives/consorts are said to be exceedingly fertile. In truth, she has a singular nephew Christian, Prince Consort of Winia, whom she adopted into her household, following his birth as his mother [Princess Elisabeth] had abandoned him. She also had a third daughter Princess Mette-Marit, whom became the Grand Duchess consort of the Olympia Empire. Mette-Marit later died in a car accident. The Scandinavian Empress Frigga is the eldest daughter of Amaltheia`s only aunt Princess Lisa of Vusairith-Meiningen (who became the Grand Duchess of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), thus making her a first-cousin of Amaltheia. Theodora`s eldest daughter High Princess Alix of Sweden is Amaltheia`s first-cousin once removed (they are a generation apart). Elizabeth II of Winia is her first cousin once removed-in-law, with her own two daughters being first-cousins to High Princess Alix of Sweden and Elizabeth II of Winia. She is the heir apparent of the heir apparent of one of the world`s oldest dynasties: the House of Vusairith-Meiningen (a Swedish royal house that dates from the times of the Viking conquers, the Swedish Duchy has been held in the family for several generations. When the name of the dynasty was changed from the ancestral Vusairith-Meiningen to the Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune, with the marriage of her parents [Luna and Draco]; the House`s more distant members were scandalized and a large majority of them renounced their succession rights to the duchy, marrying commoners in order to stay out of the direct line of succession.

As of 2021, Amaltheia is one of the oldest heir apparent's and on behalf of her aunt [the soverign duchess respectively] and her eldest first-cousin Princess Theodora of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha [a princess of the German duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Empress of Sweden], she undertakes official duties for both the Scandinavian Empire, the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the Duchy of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune. She is in charge of organizing state visits with heads of state from foreign countries and is an avid equestrian. As temporary soverign of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune, she has received 42 official state visits, and have undertaken 54 foreign state visits herself. In addition to this, Amaltheia and her family are close supporters of the monarchy of Denmark; once even personally inviting Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Henri de Laborde de Monpezat [the Queen`s husband] and the couple`s children: Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Prince Joachim of Denmark to visit the family`s residence in the countryside of Norway.

## Early life

    Princess Amaltheia was born 24 November 1896 in Claire Manor House, Târgoviște, a city in the vast and *extremely* powerful Romanian Empire as the first child of Princess Luna of Vusairith-Meiningen and her brother-wife Prince Draco of Vusairith-Meiningen (later the Grand Duchess and Grand Duke of the Duchy itself. Her parents were siblings, thus sharing the same maternal and paternal grandparents on both sides; making them first-cousins of the 0 generation. Her parents were the younger children of their family born from a marriage alliance/political alliance/marriage union between Princess Aria of Târgoviște and her Swedish husband Prince Berwald III of Vusairith-Meiningen. Her birth took place just a few years after the birth of her first-cousin: Princess Anne of Sweden.

Amaltheia was baptised on 18 December in the Holmen Church in Copenhagen. The Princess's godparents were: the Prince and Princess of Wales, several of their sons including: Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the Grand Duchess of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune and the consort of the Grand Duchess a Grand Duke of the former German duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the dissolved German Empire (currently the Weimar Republic), the Duke and Duchess of Sommerlath, Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia.

She was named Amaltheia after the late foster-mother of the Greek deity, King Zeus of Olympus, Marie after the Sicilian princess Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, Valerie after Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Matthew after Matthew Vergi, the most famous military commander of the Mythical Nations, Amalie after