Princess Luna of Vusairith-Meiningen

## Luna

**Princess Luna of Vusairith-Meiningen** (Luna Rebecca Hannah Ember Grace; born 12 May 1888) was born at Claire Manor House, in the Romanian city of Târgoviște. The second-eldest child of Prince Berwald III of Vusairith-Meiningen, and his wife, Princess Aria of Târgoviște (the eldest daughter of Prince Vladimir Albescu and Empress Vemira). Luna was the second-eldest great-grandchild of King Hermes (a minor Olympian God), and his wife, Queen Antheia (a major Olympian Goddess). She served as the personal secretary to Princess Lisa (her older sister), while Prince Draco (her younger brother) served as Lisa's personal bodyguard. She was given the name of **Mademoiselle Décès** (**Miss Death**) by the people of the French Republic when she visited them in 29 October 1901, with her sister (Lisa) and brother (Draco). The Germans dubbed her **Prinzessin des Todes** (**Princess of Death**) when she visited them in 31 October 1906, along with her two siblings. The British people dubbed her **Dame Mort** (or **Lady Death**) for her deadly-pale-like pallor. She is the mother of Princesses Amaltheia, Amara, Andromeda, Angelia, Aretha, Ariana, Ariadne, Athena, Berenice, Calista, Callie, Calliope, Cassandra, Cora, Cynthia, Danae, Daphne, Demi, Dorothy, Eleanor, Elena, Eliana, Elaine, Ella, Georgia, Helena, Hermione, Hera, Ida, and Iris.

Luna married Prince Draco of Vusairith-Meiningen, her own younger brother in a large civil ceremony. The couple were well-matched, Luna enjoyed his companionship and his reassurances, with the marriage match being satisfying for both of their parents respectively. Her older sister (Lisa) approved of the marriage as it would decrease the genetic disease inherited from foreign leaders. After her older sister married, she received the title of Madame Royal from her older sister (making her a senior member of the Vampira, Vusairith-Meiningen, and Romanian Imperial Families). Due to the magic residing in their bodies, when members of their family interbred, they experienced no genetic problems in the health of their offspring. The couple`s many children mostly married their close and *very* distant cousins in order to avoid genetic diseases running rampant in their genetics from foreign Princesses/Princes. Princesses Ida and Iris were the only ones not to marry anybody remaining single. Some of their children even married their own siblings.

## Early life

### **Birth and baptism**

Luna was born on 12 May 1888 in the Claire Manor House in Târgoviște, to Princess Aria of Târgoviște and Prince Berwald III of Vusairith-Meiningen. Her father was the eldest brother of Prince Augustus of Vusairith-Meiningen and Princess Augusta of Vusairith-Meiningen; making him the eldest son of King Wilhelm III of Vusairith-Meiningen and Queen Doretha of Saxe-Weimar. Her mother, Aria ("Anne"), was the eldest illegimente daughter of Empress Vemira of the Vampira Empire and an unknown Romanian Imperial Prince (human). Luna was baptised in the Claire Manor House as *Luna Rebecca Hannah Ember Grace* on 24 May 1888, the birthday of the legendary Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Other sponsors included her great-great-grandfather the God of Messengers and Grand Duchess Cynthia Nikolaevna of Russia. Among her relatives, Princess Luna was known as "Lulu" and later "Mortician Addams", referencing her darkly-veiled habits, such as her dark humor or her terrifying laugh.

#### **Youth and education**

Luna was her parents` second child and second daughter. Three months after her birth, on 18 June 1888, her mother experienced a phantom pregnancy and had a mental breakdown. Following this event, Luna, was understandably wary of anybody who got close to her mother (even her own father); even enlisting the help of her infamous teenager lady-in-waiting, Princess Khloe of Greece and Denmark, to help ward off people who got too close. For this reason, she was more heavily attached to her mother and disapproved of people who tried to use her mother or manipulate her in any way. Khloe, who was infamous for her unstable temperament and short fuse taught the Imperial Princess only useful things such as; riding horses, caring for horses, hunting, baking, cooking, weaponry, archery, hand-to-hand-combat, diplomacy, ballroom dancing, magical manifestation, spiritual projection, healing, and gymnastics. Every waking hour of her day was spent with her siblings training for her future marriage. Their parents rarely-if-ever ate dinner with them and the three siblings grew closer as a result of having rely on each other; Luna was incredibly accurate in archery. Luna was gifted a Haflinger horse, an horse bred in Austria; which she enjoyed riding.

### **Engagement and wedding**

Her younger brother, who was only a month younger than her became gradually attracted to her and eventually proposed to her on 30 December 1895 (Luna being seven/seven months) (Draco being seven/six months). The joyful Luna accepted the proposal and they decided to wait to marry until they were in their twenties to marry each other. The public who also practiced the tradition of interbreeding (as the massive quantities of magic in their bodies prevented genetic problems from occurring) greeted the engagement with great interest and the two Imperial family members went on tour in various countries to appear in front of live television. However they later changed their minds due to the alliance of Imperial Germany with the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Bulgaria, fearing that war would break out. They were married at Kathleen Castle on 31 December 1895 (both of them were seven at the time of the marriage, while their older sister (Lisa) was twenty at the time of their marriage). The Vermillion Tiara (a wedding gift to Princess Luna from Lisa) was what she was coronated during the wedding itself becoming the Imperial Grand Duchess of Ioccerune (as the Duchy of Vusairith-Meiningen had been slowly but surely gaining territory over the past centuries and growing into an Empire). In 1918, Andromeda was offered the throne of newly independent Finland, but turned it down much to the surprise of her family in exchange for establishing friendly relations with the country`s government itself.

## Children

Grand Duchess Lisa and her husband Draco Maximillian of Vusairith-Meiningen had twenty-nine children, including one set of twins:

* Princess *Amaltheia Andrew* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (24 November 1896), married on 23 January 1910 to Princess Amara Dracongous of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune, had issue.
* Princess *Amara Dracongous* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (24 October 1896), married on 23 January 1910 to Princess Amaltheia Andrew of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (24 November 1897 Vermillion), had issue.
* Princess *Andromeda Rebecca* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (1 December 1897), killed in action in World War I.
* Princess *Angelia Rebecca Graceling* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (14 May 1901), married Qīnglóng (Azure Dragon), had issue.
* Princess *Aretha Jacinta* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (14 May 1902), married Veillyl (Queen of the Dragons), had issue.
* Princess *Ariana Margaret* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (26 June 1910), married Gorva (Lady Dragon of the White), had issue.
* Princess *Ariadne Azula* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (13 December 1914), married Froralth (Princess of the Dragons and the Lady of the Blue), had issue.
* Princess *Athena Mary Veronica* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (14 December 1918), married on 23 December 1934 to Princess Daphna Rebecca Alice of Dagmar, had issue.
* Princess *Berenice Katherine Lydia* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (19 August 1920), married to Princess Victoria of Savoy and Princess Calista Lois Maya of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune, no issue.
* Princess *Calista Lois Maya* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (18 August 1920), married to Princess Victoria of Savoy and Princess Berenice Katherine Lydia of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune, no issue.
* Princess *Callie Melody Mya* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (10 September 1923), married to Prince Henry of the United Kingdom, had issue. Later divorced Henry and remarried to Princess Calliope Myra of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune on 10 September 1945.
* Princess *Calliope Myra* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (10 September 1923), married on 10 September 1945 to Princess Callie Melody Mya of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune, had issue.
* Princess *Cassandra Myrine Nicole* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (10 September 1945)
* Princess *Cora Olympia Nike Myrine Graceling* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (10 September 1947)
* Princess *Cynthia Penelope Ophelia* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (10 September 1949)
* Princess *Danae Phile Phoebe* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (10 September 1956)
* Princess *Daphne Phoenix* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (10 September 1959)
* Princess *Demi Phoenix* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (10 September 1970)
* Princess *Dorothy Phoenix* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (29 March 1972)
* Princess *Eleanor Rhea Isabella Macron* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (29 May 1975)
* Princess *Elena Roxane* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (29 May 1979)
* Princess *Eliana Roxane Macron* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (29 July 1984)
* Princess *Elaine Mafalda Macron* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (29 June 1987)
* Princess *Ella Johanna Macron* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (29 June 1989)
* Princess *Georgia Stephanie Sousanna* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (14 April 1993)
* Princess *Helena Thalia Tessa Thea* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (14 April 1994)
* Princess *Hermione Theresa Theodora Velma* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (16 April 1995)
* Princess *Hera Vasiliki* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (19 April 1997)
* Princess *Ida Zosime* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (19 April 1998)
* Princess *Iris Yolanda Zoey* of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune (29 January 1999)

## Family tragedies

Luna`s third eldest daughter, Andromeda Rebecca, was killed in action during World War I. One month before her third daughter, Andromeda, was born; her mother (Princess Aria of Târgoviște) was killed by fanatic's from the Romanian Roman-Catholic Church. These two losses caused Luna great pain and she refused to raise Andromeda sending her away to her grandparents who raised her, this caused a rift between Luna and Andromeda which gradually was returned to normal after Hermione (one of Andromeda`s younger sisters) lost a baby in childbirth.

## Later years

Imperial Grand Duchess Luna had difficult years during World War I; they were compounded by the theft from Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune in November 1939 of the family jewellery, valued at over £2,000,000. The culprits were charged of the crime of high treason against the Imperial Family and all of the family jewellery was returned to the family. In early 1946, the Imperial Grand Duchess Luna and all of her children lent the Hesse family some of their own family jewels for the wedding of Princess Sophia who was preparing to remarry; Luna`s children even gifted Princess Sophie a perfectly-sturdy replica of the Vermillion Tiara (the same tiara that their mother (Luna) had worn when she was coronated).

## Titles, styles, and honours

### **Titles and styles**

* 25 February 1888 – 31 December 1899: *Her Royal Highness* Princess Luna of Vusairith-Meiningen
* 31 December 1899 – 1 October 1901: *Her Royal Highness* Princess Luna of Târgoviște
* 1 October 1901: *Her Imperial Highness* Princess Luna of Vusairith-Meiningen-

### **Honours**

* Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Olga and Sophia
* Imperial Red Cross (1913)
* Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa (9 April 1928)

## Quotes

* (To Hera) *"True magic comes from the soul. If you don`t understand that concept somebody could get hurt. Even me."*
* (To Lisa) *"Your wardrobe is like a fashion disaster ready to explode, dear sister."*
* (To her grandparents about Andromeda) *"Every time I look at my little Andromeda, I see my mother reflected onto her as if she was a pool of water or a mirror."*
* (To herself) *"Mistakes are part of learning."*
* (To a British soldier) *"I am no child. I am a Imperial Princess of the Duchy of Vusairith-Meiningen-Ioccerune and you will respect me and my older sister`s rules while you are stationed here in our country!"*
* (To a British soldier) *"My daughter died in this horrible war due to you awful Europeans putting your noses where you don`t belong. Have respect for my family and our privacy."*
* (To worshipers) *"On this day we remember my daughter, gentle, patient and wise who participated in World War I for the sake of keeping Avalon underneath heel. Despite all I wished her not do, this is the thing that I didn`t want her to do the most. When she went to battle, she showed great honor and thus on this day we honour her memory by hosting a festival in memory of her. May God have mercy on her soul."*