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Princess Regent meets with Gaduri Viceroy at Playa de Paz
Winter Mansion provides welcome vacation for Royal Family
Playa de Paz, San Luis Baltusia
November 20, 5686


The Princess Regent met with Lady Anantonia Alvarez-Urquizo to discuss the coming year in Gaduridos

Her Highness, Princess Regent Nicolette Ananto-Collins travelled to Athosia this week to begin her long awaited vacation. Her Imperial Majesty, Empress in Waiting Carolina-Katherine Michelle Ananto-Connor went along with her. This was the Empress in Waiting's second visit to the Athosian holding- The Late Emperor and Empress almost never went to the House which was kept in operation by Princess of the Empire Mary Ananto-DeLaurentis. The Regent's new spokeswoman, Lady Ursula Gattlin announced the visit from Playa de Paz.

"Her Highness the Princess Regent and Her Imperial Majesty, Empress in Waiting Carolina-Katherine Michelle Ananto-Collins will be in residence here for the next two weeks to try to fight the onset of winter in Kaliburg. Playa de Paz still has nearly full sun during this part of the year while days tend to get darker in Kaliburg, and nights last a long time. The Princess Regent said she has long looked forward to the warm sun and ocean breezes afforded by the Ananto Home in Athosia, but has been on light duty in Kaliburg since March so that the Empress in Waiting could catch up on the school she missed. Her Highness is eager to sunbathe and to do some surfing. She also aims to teach the Empress in Waiting about windsurfing, which is an option she requested for her visit off Playa de Paz. She said she would like the Empress in Waiting to learn about leisure, and its necessity as part of this job."

Before really setting into the vacation, the Princess Regent held an informal audience with the Viceroy of Gaduridos, Lady Anantonia Alvarez-Urquizo. The two talked about deepening Kalistani commitment in Gaduridos, and more importantly how to prevent it from turning into dependency. "The Viceroy discussed that Gaduris want to be able to stand on their own feet, and while specific interests in Gaduridos appreciate the inflow of direct investment, the tendency is to allow the inflow, which stifles local industry and innovation. She said this has been a problem for years, and further Kalistani commitments to Gaduridos run the risk of turning the nation into a dependent colony. Kalistan cannot solve all of Gaduridos' problems, nor should they try to because that discourages local solutions to those issues. The information was news to Her Highness, who found the conversation very enlightening."

Lady Gattlin said that the Viceroy had tried to have this conversation with the Emperor and Empress, who seemed dead set on tying Gaduridos even tighter to Kalistan. "The Viceroy explained that a middle approach should be taken and Kalistan would serve both nations better if Gaduridos knew that Kalistan had its back as it developed, but didn't feel like Kalistan was trying to do everything. She said that the two nations had been sister nations for more than 110 years, and literally nobody alive remembered when Gaduridos was ever anything else, so Gaduridos wasn't going anywhere, but Gaduridos is also a nation that takes pride in its national development and its relations with other nations in the world, and also likes doing things for itself."

The Viceroy reminded the Princess Regent of Gaduri's local autonomy, and said this was a vital characteristic of Anantonese Imperial Relations. She added that this is the main selling point of the Anantonese Imperial Arrangement. "It is easier for Gaduridos to hand their foreign policy and security to Kalistan, but the trade off is that Gaduridos controls its domestic policy," said Lady Gattlin. "The Princess Regent said she appreciated the Viceroy's candid words regarding our two nation's relationship, and said she would work tirelessly to be the partner that Gaduridos wants, because it is of primary importance that Kalistan and Gaduridos work together, especially since other regional players have been working diligently to surround and contain Kalistan within the Anantonese Ocean. The Viceroy said Gaduridos was cognizant of that fact and joined Kalistan in its concern for those actions."

She also said her office had initiated a public relations campaign to begin familiarizing the Gaduri People with the new Empress. "The goal, said the Viceroy, is to raise the profile of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress in Waiting, among the people of Gaduridos. The effort involves both social media and legacy media campaigns targeting primarily families with young children to introduce people to the Empress in Waiting, to show her as a living and breathing person, rather than some abstract living in a far away place, to show how she is, in a lot of ways, not all that different from their own children, to kind of give part of her biography to the people, and to encourage people to learn about her, to learn about our 110 year partnership and to learn about her role in our society. It encourages the nation to count the Empress in Waiting as one of their own. The Viceroy said it was tasteful, accurate, and has succeeded in introducing the girl to the Nation.

"The Viceroy reports," continued Lady Gattlin, "that those who answered the poll question 'Do you know who this is?' correctly increased from 18% when her office did a baseline poll in January to 42% in September, and those who responded positively to the question 'Does her story inspire you' has increased from 2% in January to 27%. Online fan pages and discussion around the Empress in Waiting is also up double digits from the start of the campaign. The Viceroy said that the campaign will continue through the end of 5687."

The Viceroy is the Princess Regent and the Empress in Waiting's guest at Playa de Paz for the next two weeks, and during that time, they will be visited by the Chancellor of the Empire and the Foreign Minister, as well as Her Highness Princess of the Empire Mary Ananto-DeLaurentis, who will take up winter residence at the seaside chateau upon the Princess Regent's departure in early December.

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