The prince has just been killed a tragic ice skating accident. The king has two daughters. The older one is already married to the militarily powerful Duke of Wherever. The younger one is still unmarried. There are many interested nobleman suitors, but none have the military power to fight the Duke if it comes to a civil war. There is one interested foreign suitor, and while his military rivals the Duke's, he is even more unpopular due to his foreignness. Additionally, the younger daughter is secretly gay. The king wants to ensure his younger daughter will inherit the throne to prevent the Duke from taking power because he believes the Duke to be cruel and powerhungry, but he fears the possibility of civil war if he declares the younger daughter his inheritor. What can he do to prevent both undesirable outcomes?
The prince has just been killed a tragic ice skating accident. The king has two daughters...
Seek immortality and outlive the fuck out of the duke.
He can start by not reposting this thread for the umpteenth time.
A charming noble steps forward and woos the princes, and talks down the duke, bringing a peaceful change of leadership to rule over the kingdom.
In reality, he is a powerful Wizard, who had been behind the Ice Skating Incident with his Wizard powers, who used his powers of Enchantment to enslave the nobles to his will.
Depending on how inheritance is determined in his kingdom he may be shit out of luck.
What is the law of inheritance? Because it sounds like either the king gets to pick his successor, or else it's determined by a council of nobles based on what you've described.
Not sure why he's so worried, frankly. If his elder daughter becomes Queen, then she's going to be calling the shots, not the Royal Consort. And if the Royal Consort tries to take the throne from his own wife, he has no royal lineage with which to back his claim. Every noble who isn't in his pocket is going to rise up, kill him, and install the younger daughter on the throne. If all of the nobles of the land back him then...well, he's the new rightful king, and good on him, because he's earned that shit.
Invite older daughter and Duke celebrating the life of her brother, tragically cut short as it was. Use the opportunity to (non-lethally) poison the older daughter and claim she passed away from her sudden illness while hiding her away in a gilded cage.
"Reveal" that the younger daughter is "actually" a second son whom the world was told was a girl to keep "him" safe in case of subterfuge leading to exactly the situation we have now. "He" has already been married in secret to the first beautiful young woman we can trust to keep the charade going. "He" may develop a reputation as a philanderer if the girl isn't to "his" liking, but that's fine. Now all I have to do is get the girl pregnant so that there will be an heir guaranteed for the two of them.
Assassinate the Duke. He probably killed the prince anyway.
Grab the daughter's head in both hands, force it down to your groin and fuck her face until you see tears in her eyes and her makeup starts to run.
Hire a set of adventurers to find a new prince. They should be sitting around in dungeons or captured by various orc tribes. Probably one or two in the party of adventurers. Adopt the newfound prince. Declare him king.
>Ending the royal bloodline
Worst end
>secretly gay
Discover this, execute her for it. Fuck that anachronistic shit.
>implying
Where do you think the sperm getting my daugh- I mean, son's wife pregnant is coming from?
PROTIP: just because my wife is dead doesn't mean I can't still get it up.
kill the duke, have the eldest become regent of his estate until her son is old enough to take hold of the house.
depending on age, have the son of the dead duke spend alot of time around his aunt, ensuring loyalty while the youngest daughter goes about royal duties like normal
>anachronism
Do you think homosexuality is a completely modern phenomena or something?
Buy a foreign baby and claim it's the prince's son who was off living in hiding with his wet nurse and some guards.
Defy the law and appoint Lady Jane Grey the heir to the throne.
Then drink a Bloody Mary and watch it all burn down before the Virgin Queen takes the throne and ushers in a golden age.
Also, Elizabeth wasn't secretly gay. She stayed unmarried for political reasons. She had several very discrete lovers and one truly epic FFM threeway when she was a teen. So maybe bi, but that's it.
You been reading too many penny dreadfuls, son. Before the nineteenth century many gay folks, especially in the nobility, suffered nothing worse than gossip if they were found out, or were allowed to flee in 'exile' if their indiscretion was too severe. The strong anti-homosexual stuff is a relatively modern thing, dating from ~1850 to present.
So maybe it is anachronistic if this fictional Kingdom is late-Victorian or Edwardian, but it's a normal event if it's pseudomedieval like most fantasy.
Also, it's really worth noting nearly all Fantasy is, as you note, Pseudo-medieval at BEST, with anachronisms out the metaphorical asshole.
This. Plus, if you're gay, you just diddle the servants and so long as you produce an heir, nobody's the wiser.
This.
If the older princess claims the throne, then she would get control of the duke's armies, as presumably the kingdom and his fiefdom are united from the marriage.
So if the Duke gets too big for his britches, he would be shot down, and possible be declared a traitor.
Alternatively, use younger princess to make the older one question her husband's loyalty and to dedicate our group to investigate the potential treason. We'd find a way to convince the Duke's realm that he is in fact, a power hungry fuck, and cares little for his people.
They would rise up, an immediately be quelled by either:
>The older executing the Duke, as she would have heard of his plotting
>Or the younger gathering the people of both lands and ousting the treasonous duke and his wife.
>Additionally, the younger daughter is secretly gay.
Kill yourself, OP.
>secretly gay
LITERALLY DOES NOT MATTER. This is a princess in a monarchy; marriage is literally a contract between lands and/or organizations, whether she'd rather her handmaiden does not matter one bit, nor would her husband also being 'gay' matter in any way.
She's getting married, and she's popping out at least one heir, end of story. Anything beyond that is for her and her husband to come to an agreement with.
>Anything beyond that is for her and her husband to come to an agreement with.
>MFF threesomes with a bisexual handmaiden, MFF threesomes with a bisexual handmaiden everywhere
>She's getting married, and she's popping out at least one heir, end of story. Anything beyond that is for her and her husband to come to an agreement with.
Nothing triggers libtards like the reminder that marital rape doesn't exist as a concept in the past
It's not even marital rape, it's "alright, just lie back and think of England, and once you're knocked up we can both go back to shagging our respective mistresses".