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Marquess Anantonia Alvarez-Urquizo prepares to Retire
Viceroy's Daughter will take up post in Ciudad de Gaduri
Vespianio, Marlingantos, Gaduridos
April 6, 5699


Viceroy Anantonia Alvarez-Urquizo with daughter Marisol Paz Alvarez-Navarro

Marquess Anantonia Alvarez-Urquizo, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Gaduridos has announced her retirement in May of this Year. The Viceroy will be 58 this year and will have served the Empire for 22 years as Viceroy of Gaduridos. Her replacement will be Marquess Marisol Paz Alvarez-Navarro, who is Lady Anantonia's daughter. Alvarez-Paz, 31, has a Masters Degree in Public Policy, and has served the Viceroyalty in the Agriculture Ministry for the last 4 years. Lady Alvarez-Urquizo strongly recommended her daughter to Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Carolina II Ananto, who agreed that Alvarez-Navarro would be a good choice to represent Her Imperial Majesty to Gaduridos.

"Her Imperial Majesty would like to know first of all that an Alvarez continues to sit as Viceroy in Gaduridos," said Her Imperial Majesty's Personal Secretary, Lady Rene Houston, "but she also wanted a representative who would continue to work on improvement and development of Gaduridos' agricultural and industrial exports." Lady Alvarez-Navarro has that experience, and is seen by many of her peers as a technocrat with a strong head for planning, and is committed to keeping Gaduridos on a strong track that it has maintained over the decades of her mother's administration.

Lady Alvarez-Navarro will appear in Kaliburg in or around May 15 so that she can be formally charged by the Empress as the her Imperial Majesty's Viceroy Extraordinaire and Plenipotential to the Kingdom of Gaduridos. She will also be formally inducted into the Order of the Grey Smoke and will receive the Life Peerage title of Marquess, which Her Imperial Majesty wants to establish as the formal rank for the Viceroy going forward. The Viceroy, as a billet, is a title equal to Grand Duke of Kalistan in the Peerage, but in the Table of Peers, Marquess is slightly junior to a Kalistani Duchess. As the Gaduri Duchies do not technically belong to Kalistan, it is important nonetheless that the Viceroy retain the life Peerage in Kalistan, so the Empress remains the Viceroy's liege.

"Será el mayor honor para mí aceptar el título de Virrey de Gaduridos" said Lady Alvarez-Navarro in Ciudad de Gaduridos last week. "Mi madre, doña Anantonia Álvarez, siempre decía que la verdadera cualidad de una persona reside en su servicio a los demás. Y ahora me toca a mí servir a Gaduridos, como mi familia lo ha hecho tantas veces antes. Me toca a mí llevar la bandera, asegurar que nuestro gobierno se mantenga estable y honesto, garantizar que nuestra economía beneficie a todos y proteger y promover nuestra cultura e identidad como gadurianos. Espero con ansias la oportunidad de servir a Gaduridos."

Lady Anantonia Alvarez-Urquizo will continue to live at Vespiano in her family's home after her retirement, while Lady Alvarez-Navarro will continue to live in the Capital with her husband, investment fund manager Guillermo Tecuatl and her young son Manuel Alvarez-Tecuatl.

@TheRepublic