27-03-2025, 09:07 PM
Dorvische Allgemeine Zeitung
BREAKING NEWS: Long live the King and Kaiser! The King and Kaiser is dead!
January, 5630
The Dorvish King and Kaiser, His Majestic Highness, Franz is dead. His Majestic Highness, the King and Kaiser was 100 years old. Franz von Faust-Essen is one of the youngest Faust-Essen's to sit on the throne of Dorvik and the titular Dundorfian Reich. At the age of 20 he was restored as was the Kingdom of Dorvik in August, 5555 and has reigned as one of the longest reigning Dorvish monarchs of recent memory. His Majestic Highness, the King and Kaiser had four children: Franz, the late Crown Prince, Alaric, Wilhelmina and Lothar. The late Crown Prince, Franz the Younger, born in September, 5556 passed in 5622 after a battle with cancer that ultimately won he was 66 years old and left behind his wife and five children, the eldest among them being Franz III who became Crown Prince and will now serve as Franz II. Franz von Faust-Essen was born in May, 5578 in Vinisk, Dorvan and quickly became involved in the operations of the Faust-Essen family and the state, the eventual Crown Prince would achieve the rank of Oberst in the Dorvish Landwehr and would be attached to the Military Security Service where he remains a reserve officer till this very day. The incoming King and Kaiser married a fellow university student, Liliana Florstedt, who would go on to become a lawyer for the Largonia Ministry of Justice, where she serves as Chief Counsel to the current administration.
With the incoming King and Kaiser's father passing in October, 5622 he became Crown Prince by decree of his grandfather and assumed more royal duties and was entered into a reserve commission with the Dorvish Landwehr and the Military Security Service. The news of his grandfathers death shocked the young Crown Prince as he had grown close to his grandfather since the death of his father and had come to be seen as a close advisor to the late King and Kaiser. As is tradition, the Dorvish people will observe a period of mourning for a week and the current Crown Prince will be formally coronated as the King of Dorvik in the second week of January, 5630 in Vinisk. In accordance with the Imperial Elector's Council of the Dundorfian Reich, a Reich Regent will be selected until the Imperial Elector's Council meets to discuss the election of a new titular Dundorfian Kaiser.