Luthori

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Normally silent on most controversies related to the imperial family – the Imperial Household Ministry today released a statement regarding some comments from the Egelian press concerning the Luthorian monarch and his family. 

In a special paper from the Egelian Icónico magazine focused on an interview of Egelian Queen and Empress Isabella, wife of Emperor Leon Alexander – the paper praised the Empress’ style of parenting, praising their presence in their four children’s lives. Nothing to worry about, but a comparison was established with Luthorian monarchs – if it was in a meliorative way, then none of this controversy would have ever existed.  

But “Icónico’s” paper states otherwise, stating that “Most royal children, such as Luthorian ones, are often left to their nanny's and handed to fate itself. Hence Luthorian monarchs with bad decision making and critical thinking skills are gracefully left out into our world.” - this statement marked an unprecedented insult towards the House of Orange-Villayn, the Luthorian education system and seems to have also directly insulted the emperor and his predecessors. 

The Imperial Household Ministry usually doesn’t react towards what it sees as the “free press’ right to indulge itself in unfortunate lies and deceit” - when faced with an untrue statement in regards to the imperial family. But this statement shook to the very core of Luthorian society and especially within the Monarchy, after all, seeing the Luthorian monarch being directly insulted in a foreign paper, especially from a state not too hostile to the Luthorian Crown. 

The Palace responded with a statement from a spokesperson on that specific issue – stating the following. 

The Imperial Household respect the rights and privileges of the free press throughout the world. 

Unfortunately, it is sad to witness the clear lack of journalistic etiquette from certain newspapers in their research in favour of political propaganda in pursuit of whatever objective they are so obsessed over. 

The Imperial Household deeply regrets that some newspaper throughout the world remains helplessly locked into a regrettable vision of a Luthori locked into the 19th century. 

As a matter of fact, if the newspapers in question had been a little interest in pursuing real journalism – they would have known that no Luthorian monarch ever since the start of the modern era has required to need to use nannies – or any other personal to take care of their children. 

Each prince and princesses have been raised by their parents. 

The baseless claim that Luthorian monarch lack critical thinking skill or are faced with bad-decision making will not get a statement – as this ridiculous claim doesn’t even hold out on its own.

When asked whether the Luthorian Emperor had the intention of pressing charges against the newspaper – which became a potential scenario in that case, the spokesperson stated that “No. His Majesty, while he’s insulted and deeply hurts by these false claims will not press charges in an Egelian court – as he respects the free press.” 

The Egelian paper’s claim also opened a small debate about the usage of nannies for the education of children from the imperial family – when asked about this, the Palace jokingly responded on social media through one of his spokesperson: “If we really used nannies, don’t you think that the republican left and the anti-monarchy newspapers wouldn’t have discovered the whole thing and basically used it as ammunition against the monarchy? Nah, they’d have.” 

This crisis has the potential of throwing the relationship between Luthori and Egelion into chaos, as while both governments haven’t released any kind of statement in this affair – Prime Minister Cameron Seddon described the comments on the imperial family as “greatly disturbing”, the Foreign Secretary Lord Stanley has expressed the wish of “having a written apology from Iconico towards His Majesty” but has expressed unwillingness at escalating the affair further - “except if needed, of course” he said. 

In its final remarks, the Palace stated that “those kinds of comments do not belong in any serious newspaper, they belong in the gutter press.”