House of Willow

The **House of Willow** is the royal house reigning in the Kingdom of Willow Creek. Its founder was King Edward. The current Head of the House is the current monarch of the country, King Louis, and its heir is Louis' eldest child, Crown Prince Cornelius.

## Official members

To be a member of the House of Willow, a person has to be born with the surname "Willow", being bestowed with it, or being married into the family. Being born with the surname "Willow" means the parent someone gets the surname from posses a higher title than their spouse (for example, Lady Cassidy is a Willow because her Willow mother used to posses the title of Duchess, which is higher than Cassidy's Brindleton father's title of Duke Consort).

### Royal Family

The Royal Family of Willow Creek is part of the House of Willow. The current head of the House is King Louis, and its heir is Crown Prince Cornelius. King Louis' daughters Princess Genevieve, Princess Juliet and Princess Elena are also members of the House. Louis' wife Queen Corinne and Cornelius' husband Prince Elis belong to it by marriage.

### King's Family

As legitimate descendants of King Edmond, the King's siblings are also members of the House: Count Consort Jack of Oasis Springs and Countess Isabelle of Brindleton Bay. However, nor their spouses nor their children are members since they got the surnames "Hsu" and "Brindleton", respectevely.

### Other members

Every noble in the Kingdom of Willow Creek is given the surname "Willow" and thus is considered a member of the House. This include Marquess Liam, his sister Lady Eloise, their mother Dowager Marchioness Tina, Count Percival, his wife Countess Gloria, his aunt Lady Helena, Baron Maxwell, his wife Baroness Journey, and their daughter Lady Collette, as members of the House.

Other noble with the surname "Willow" is Lady Cassidy, formerly from the Dukedom's household.

People who were born with the surname "Willow" but who later changed it when they married someone from another kingdom with a higher title (such as Princess Isabelle Willow, who became Princess Isabelle, Countess Brindleton; Lady Harper Willow, who will become Duchess Harper Guāng Xī; Lord Ian Willow, who became Duke Consort Ian Brindleton), could be considered members of the House, as they were born into it. However, possibly their spouses would not.

Prince Jack Willow did not marry someone with a higher title, but he married a noble title holder. As he does not have a noble title of his own, and as his family lives in his wife's country as nobles, their children took their mother's surname (Hsu).

## Agnatic members

*NOTE: This is NOT how, in the game, a person is a member of the House. This is only out of curiosity and in relation to the real world.*

In the real world, belonging to a Royal House is defined by agnatic-descent; this means a person belongs to their father's House, and he belongs to his father's House and so on. Usually, when a Queen Regnant passes away and a child of hers becomes monarch, the Royal House would change to the name of his father's House. For example, Queen Victoria was a member of the House of Hanover, but her son and successor King Edward VII was a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, as it was his father's House.

There are cases where a monarch combines the name of their father and their mother's Houses. For example, when Queen María II of Portugal (of the House of Braganza) died, her son did not take the fame of his father's House (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). Instead, it was created the branch of "Saxe-Coburg-Braganza", although it was commonly used the simplified and tradicional form "Braganza".

Other people, such as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, used entirely their mother's House as surnames.

So, if the House of Willow would be based on agnatic-descent, there would be at least tweny-six people members of the House by blood, ten of them being alive:

* King Edward of Willow Creek.
	+ King Hans of Willow Creek.
		- King William of Willow Creek.
			* King Derek of Willow Creek.
				+ Queen Alice of Windenburg.
				+ King Edmond of Willow Creek.
					- **King Louis of Willow Creek**.
						* **Crown Prince Cornelius of Willow Creek**.
						* **Princess Genevieve of Willow Creek**.
						* **Princess Juliet Willow, Duchess of Oasis Springs**.
						* **Princess Elena Willow, Marchioness of Guāng Xī**.
					- **Prince Jack Willow, Count Consort of Oasis Springs**.
						* **Prince Gabriel of Oasis Springs**.
						* **Lady Minerva of Oasis Springs**.
					- **Princess Isabelle Willow, Countess of Brindleton Bay**.
			* Princess Jane Willow, Baroness of Oasis Springs.
			* Princess Julia, Countess of Willow Creek.
		- Prince Neil, Duke Consort of Willow Creek.
			* Duke Bentley of Willow Creek.
				+ Duke Harrison of Willow Creek.
					- Duchess Izadora of Willow Creek.
					- **Lady Harper of Guāng Xī**.
					- Lord Pierre of Willow Creek.
			* Baroness Emma of Oasis Springs.
	+ Princess Elena of Willow Creek.
	+ Princess Jane Willow, Marchioness of Windenburg.