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Sunderland's Royal Jewel Vault (57/∞) ♛

↬ Queen Irene's Stillwater Sapphire Tiara

When Lady Irene Wynn married Louis, the Prince of Danforth, in 1968, the provincial government of Lakota gifted her 18 sapphires, one representing each year of her life. The brilliant blue sapphires were sourced from the Stillwater Gulch, located in the Rocky Mountains. Ranging in colour from cornflower blue to purple, Lakota sapphires were first discovered along the Missouri River in the 1860s. Since then, the gemstones have been sported by celebrities and politicians, first ladies and royal consorts across the globe, including Irene’s contemporaries Lady Bird Johnson, Queen Sofía of Spain, and Queen Sirikit. Irene’s sapphires were displayed with her other wedding gifts at St. Mary’s Palace, but she didn’t wear them until after she became queen consort in 1970. Queen Irene commissioned a sapphire tiara from Albemarle in the spring of 1973. Despite owning a range of tiaras of diverse colours and profiles, Irene lacked a sapphire diadem, as her mother-in-law, Queen Katherine, still had ownership over the Regal Circlet, which was typically reserved for current queen consorts. The need for a sapphire tiara was a question of fashion, but also diplomacy: blue was a national colour of many foreign countries, including St. George, which was a dominion of Sunderland at the time. When Katherine refused to fork the Regal Circlet over, Irene turned to her collection of Lakota sapphires. The resulting tiara featured a dramatic floral and foliate spray set on a series of diamond fleur-de-lys motifs, hinting at the Queen’s French ancestry. Queen Irene first wore the tiara on a state visit to South Korea in 1975. The tiara made future appearances during a 1979 state visit to Sweden and a 1982 visit from French president François Mitterrand. During this time, the tiara was paired with the Herring sapphire necklace, which Irene purchased in 1974. Throughout the 1990s, he tiara became a staple at state banquets and galas from republics, notably France and the United States of America. In 1995, the tiara was worn along with Queen Alexandra’s Sapphires for Irene’s Silver Jubilee Portrait with her St. George Honours. More recent appearances of the tiara include diplomatic events with the heads of state of Kuwait (2001), Japan (2004), and Estonia (2008). The Queen last wore the tiara in 2018 for the highly publicized (and criticized) American state banquet at Chester Palace. The tiara complemented a white dress, and the Queen’s Order of Brandenburg sash: red, white, and blue. Earlier that year, Queen Katherine passed away, and the Regal Circlet finally entered Irene’s possession, although she has only worn it once since. The Stillwater sapphire tiara remains unique to Queen Irene, with no other members wearing it in an official capacity—although it was “worn” by an infant Princess Jacqueline in a 1976 portrait.

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what happened at the 2018 us state banquet?

Well, who was the American President in 2018? That should tell you what you need to know.

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I feel Irene’s aesthetician in the 90s did her dirty :(

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The dream lingered behind her eyelids and in her fingertips, scattered images and the ghost of sensation, faint like the scent of yesterday's cigarettes on a borrowed jacket. For a moment, he had been close enough to touch. For a moment, he had been real. The finer details of the dream had already begun to fade, and Leonor wished bitterly that she had not dreamed at all. The dream had been sweet, but the cruelty of waking was more than she bear.

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author's note: I am still so proud of this one! lots of love to @nexility-sims for entrusting me with Leonor and Dan and resending the build files like 4 times.

This one was inspired by two things: 1. the love cherry motion MV and 2. this post by @hannahssimblr! thank you to both hannah and choerry for this one, wouldn't have been possible without you.

Leonor woke with a gasp. For a moment, she had no idea where she was. As the familiar shapes of her darkened bedroom came into focus, reality reasserted itself. She was in her bedroom in Nakawe. Her husband was asleep beside her. Somewhere, far away, Andre was dying.

Dan woke more gradually than Leonor had, pulled from sleep not by her absence from their bed (this was not unusual, she kept odd hours and other lovers) but by the sounds of her moving through their room, dressing in the dark.

Even before he opened his eyes, he knew she was leaving.

DAN | Leonor? LEONOR | It's alright. Go back to sleep. DAN | Where are you going? LEONOR | Canaris. Mat and Johan's. DAN | Valencia's recital-- LEONOR | She's fourteen, she doesn't need her mother there. DAN | ... DAN | ...what about the ambassador's dinner? LEONOR | Oh, I'll be back for that. [ phone chimes ] Tsk. That'll be the driver.

She was gone without a backward glance, and Dan was left with his silence.

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Sunderland's Royal Jewel Vault (57/∞) ♛

↬ Queen Irene's Stillwater Sapphire Tiara

When Lady Irene Wynn married Louis, the Prince of Danforth, in 1968, the provincial government of Lakota gifted her 18 sapphires, one representing each year of her life. The brilliant blue sapphires were sourced from the Stillwater Gulch, located in the Rocky Mountains. Ranging in colour from cornflower blue to purple, Lakota sapphires were first discovered along the Missouri River in the 1860s. Since then, the gemstones have been sported by celebrities and politicians, first ladies and royal consorts across the globe, including Irene’s contemporaries Lady Bird Johnson, Queen Sofía of Spain, and Queen Sirikit. Irene’s sapphires were displayed with her other wedding gifts at St. Mary’s Palace, but she didn’t wear them until after she became queen consort in 1970. Queen Irene commissioned a sapphire tiara from Albemarle in the spring of 1973. Despite owning a range of tiaras of diverse colours and profiles, Irene lacked a sapphire diadem, as her mother-in-law, Queen Katherine, still had ownership over the Regal Circlet, which was typically reserved for current queen consorts. The need for a sapphire tiara was a question of fashion, but also diplomacy: blue was a national colour of many foreign countries, including St. George, which was a dominion of Sunderland at the time. When Katherine refused to fork the Regal Circlet over, Irene turned to her collection of Lakota sapphires. The resulting tiara featured a dramatic floral and foliate spray set on a series of diamond fleur-de-lys motifs, hinting at the Queen’s French ancestry. Queen Irene first wore the tiara on a state visit to South Korea in 1975. The tiara made future appearances during a 1979 state visit to Sweden and a 1982 visit from French president François Mitterrand. During this time, the tiara was paired with the Herring sapphire necklace, which Irene purchased in 1974. Throughout the 1990s, he tiara became a staple at state banquets and galas from republics, notably France and the United States of America. In 1995, the tiara was worn along with Queen Alexandra’s Sapphires for Irene’s Silver Jubilee Portrait with her St. George Honours. More recent appearances of the tiara include diplomatic events with the heads of state of Kuwait (2001), Japan (2004), and Estonia (2008). The Queen last wore the tiara in 2018 for the highly publicized (and criticized) American state banquet at Chester Palace. The tiara complemented a white dress, and the Queen’s Order of Brandenburg sash: red, white, and blue. Earlier that year, Queen Katherine passed away, and the Regal Circlet finally entered Irene’s possession, although she has only worn it once since. The Stillwater sapphire tiara remains unique to Queen Irene, with no other members wearing it in an official capacity—although it was “worn” by an infant Princess Jacqueline in a 1976 portrait.

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Sunderland's Royal Jewel Vault (1/∞) ♛

↬ Princess Katherine's Diamond Palmette Tiara

Princess Katherine's Palmette Tiara was made by Cartier in 1941 and purchased by the then Prince James (later King James II) for his fiancé, Lady Katherine Rothman, two weeks ahead of their wedding. Initially wealthy Sunderlandian aristocracy, the Rothman family fell upon hard times after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, resulting in most of the family's jewellery and property being sold. Katherine was moved by the gift and wrote to her mother: My darling Jim presented me with the most thoughtful gift: my first-ever tiara. I couldn't belive (sic) my eyes! Shall tearsure (sic) it forever! The tiara was tailored to the needs of the inexperienced Katherine, who stood at almost 6 feet tall and didn't need the extra height and weight of a larger tiara. The palmette tiara was therefore relatively small, but consisted of over a thousand recycled diamonds from the royal family’s collection. The tiara features eight palmette elements that converge on a scroll centrepiece topped with diamonds. Katherine wore the tiara throughout the early years of her marriage until her accession as queen in 1956, after which she inherited several other tiaras. The tiara was deemed perfect for younger princesses and those with little experience with tiaras. In 1980, Katherine loaned the tiara to her newlywed daughter-in-law Phyllis, who had a middle-class background. Phyllis wore the tiara on and off during her time as a senior royal, but favoured the tiaras she would later purchase as Duchess of Pape. In the nineties, Princess Jacqueline, daughter of Louis V, became the next borrower of the tiara. The princess made her first tiara appearance with the diamond palmette for the 1993 Opening of Parliament, leading the tiara to become known as Baby's First Tiara or simply Baby's First within the family. Jacqueline wore the tiara several times before her marriage. Following Jacqueline's marriage, the tiara disappeared into the vault and hasn't been worn publicly for several decades. The tiara still remains within the family's possession, with Louis V inheriting it after the passing of his mother in 2018, and it's possible the tiara might reemerge once younger girls within the family, mainly Princess Imogen of Sherbourne and Miss Margaux-Grace Warwick, come of age. It might even make the perfect bridal diadem for the next generation of royal consorts.

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The Honourable Tatiana Grace Farnsworth was born on April 19, 1977

On April 19, 1977, the Burgrave and Burgravine of Weyward welcomed their fourth and youngest child. The baby, a girl, was met with a lukewarm reaction from her parents, who were hoping for a second son, a spare for one of the oldest aristocratic families in the country. The families of John Spencer Farnsworth (1940 - 2008) and his wife, Lady Grace (née Burke; 1952 - ), had been closely allied with the Sunderlandian Royal Family for the past century. Their mothers, Ellinor Farnsworth, Countess Farnsworth and Sylvia Burke, Duchess of Lewisham, were ladies-in-waiting to Queen Katherine. Sylvia’s grandmother was the Russian-born Princess Anna Felixovna Obolensky, a confidante and lady-in-waiting to Queen Alexandra. The newest addition to this historic brood was named Tatiana Grace, after her mother and a maternal great-great-aunt who was once considered as a bride for George Nicholas, Prince of Danforth. Her family called her “Tush” because, according to her mother, she was “a sore bottom.”

Tatiana joined three older siblings: Peter “The Great” (1968 - ), Elena (1970 - ), and Anya (1974 -). The children were brought up on the Wolferton Estate, just a stone’s throw from the main house. King Louis V, or “Uncle Loo” as the Farnsworth children called him, was not a stranger to the family, nor was the rest of the royal family. Lady Grace was a close friend of Queen Irene—“too close,” Louis V once grated. Despite the king’s ambivalence, it was Grace who convinced Irene not to divorce Louis in 1982. Little Tatiana played with Princess Jacqueline and Prince James, who was just two months older.

“It was a wonderful childhood, really,” Tatiana would later state. “But so lonely.” By the time Tatiana was a toddler, her older siblings had been sent off to boarding school, and she was raised as an only child. Tush was placed in the care of a governess and confided to the nursery, where visits from her parents were infrequent. By 1978, the cracks in the Weywards’ marriage had turned to canyons, deepened by a twelve-year age difference. To distract Tatiana from the marital strife, her father provided her with an abundance of household pets, including rabbits, hamsters, a cockatoo, a tabby cat called Marzipan, and a pair of Shetland ponies. Although Spencer rarely set foot in the nursery, which resembled a zoo, Tatiana was extremely loyal to her father.

When she was seven, Tatiana’s mother “ran off” with Charles Foy, heir to a drapery fortune. Although Grace later returned home “heartbroken and humiliated”, Tatiana never forgave her mother and grew to resent her. At Chester Palace, Queen Irene worried that Grace’s flight was a “cry for help” but didn’t dare to pry. Louis V’s third child, Prince Phillip, later claimed his parents were disturbed by the Burgrave’s tendency to treat his wife like “the disposable lid of a microwave dinner.” Although rumours of abuse and extramarital affairs persisted, the couple remained married until Spencer’s death.

“We were the laughing stock for that whole summer. I don’t think my father ever got over it.” - Lady Anya Villeneuve as cited in "Meet the in-laws: Who are the Farnsworths of Weyward?", SBN News (December 1, 1998)

When she was nine, Tatiana joined her sisters at Abbey Wood, an all-girls prep school. Classmates described Tatiana as a walking cliche. “She was shy but not boring; she just needed to come out of her shell. She had these stunning green eyes. She never wore tons of makeup, just mascara. You know. She was beautiful, but she didn’t know it.” Tatiana was not academically gifted, failing math twice and having to take summer school a handful of times. One term studying at a Swiss finishing school did not improve her grades. “She was intellectually dormant,” her mother claimed. “She didn’t want to study or learn. All she wanted to do was dance.”

The year before Abbey Wood, Tatiana’s brother gifted her a book of ballerina paper dolls at Christmas. The gift, a thoughtless stocking stuffer gifted by a teenager, had a profound impact. From that moment on, Tatiana became obsessed with classical ballet. After months of tears and begging, Spencer enrolled Tatiana in tap and ballet classes. Soon, ballet became Tatiana’s whole world, consuming every inch of her free time and occupying her dreams, both day and night. She idolized Natalia Makarova just as much as she did Mariah Carey and Paula Abdul. By thorteen, Tatiana was en pointe and the winner of several national ballet titles. Royal biographer Agnes Stuart wrote in 2007 that ballet was the only thing Tatiana was “truly, exceptionally, good at.”

“She wasn’t particularly intelligent or charismatic. Her mother had few positive words to say about her. She got that validation from dance. And she clung to it.” - Agnes Stuart "Royal Brides and Bodies", The New Yorker (April 2005) “I told her: you can’t make a career out of that. I had read a magazine. All these gymnast and ballerina girls were miserable and anorexic. It’s not what people want nowadays. They wanted ladies in the office. Secretaries or typists or whatever.” - Countess Farsworth as cited in "Meet the in-laws: Who are the Farnsworths of Weyward?", SBN News (December 1, 1998)

Parallel to ballet ran another obsession, just as passionate but far more consequential for Tatiana’s life. Tatiana began dating her childhood friend, James, the Prince of Danforth, in 1992. The relationship was on and off again, but started ramping up once the couple completed secondary school. Until that point, James and Tatiana had been separated, Tatiana confined to the rural Wolferton Estate and James living in the city. As adults, the pair were granted independence from their parents and a closer proximity. James was at Warwick Met, studying a mix of history and philosophy, and Tatiana was at the National Ballet School. The two campuses were just five blocks away. By 1996, Tatiana and James were attached at the hip; a fact that wasn’t missed by their families—or Sunderland’s press.

In 1997, Tatiana, who had since become Lady Tatiana Farnsworth following the death of her paternal grandfather, was invited to Collingwood Castle, the royals’ summer home. From there, she joined the royal family aboard the HMSY Sunderlania for a weekend cruise to the Canadian/American Thousand Islands. Tatiana was received well by the King and Queen, as well as by James’s grandmother, Queen Katherine. However, Tatiana’s family had mixed feelings about marriage, especially her brother and mother. The Great rejected the idea that Tatiana loved James, telling his little sister, “he gives you attention. And you love attention, Tush.”

Marrying James would also mean giving up her ballet career. Throughout the late 1990s, Tatiana was fielding several professional offers from ballet companies in Warwick, London, and Los Angeles. Her early career part of NBS’s Corps de ballet was marked by acclaimed performances in Giselle, Don Quixote, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty. The New York Times described Lady Tatiana as “buoyant and refined [. . .] Perhaps one out of 25 wunderkind in North American ballet.” In January 1998, NBS’s principal choreographer a Natasha Allred, gave Tatiana frank advice. Marrying James meant sacrificing a career as a soloist. “You’ll be turning your back on NBS. On Broadway.”

“I think you will regret it, is all I’m saying.”

James proposed to Lady Tatiana at Rockcliffe Palace in June 1998, and the pair were married that December. The wedding ceremony took place at the colossal St. Andrew’s Cathedral, which offered majestic views to nearly 600,000 spectators. Eyebrows were raised when Tatiana vowed “to obey”, a line that was not included in the 1997 wedding ceremony of Princess Jacqueline and Earl Belmont.

As Princess of Danforth, Tatiana’s life revolved around public appearances and childrearing. Her first child, Prince Nicholas, was born in April 2000, followed by Prince Alex in July 2002. In May 2001, Tatiana attended her first Opening of Parliament. Her inaugural international visit was to New York City in March 2002 to commemorate victims of the September 11th attacks. In 2003, Tatiana accompanied James, Nicholas, and a ten-month-old Alex to Western Sunderland. In August 2004, Tatiana was made patron of NBS, her former school, and twenty-five other institutions across the country. 2006 was dominated by international visits to Thailand, France, Canada, and an extensive tour of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, where Tatiana highlighted women’s development in the region. In 2003, Tatiana confided to Second Lady Lynne Cheney that she “didn’t expect” her life as Princess of Danforth to be “so exhausting.” The late 2000s were characterized by a string of publicized family tragedies, among them a stillborn baby girl and her brother’s salacious divorce and remarriage. In 2008, the tragedies crescendoed when Tatiana’s father died following a stroke. Her mother married a Spanish aristocrat the following year. Tatiana resented her new stepfather, refused to meet him, and threw a “temper tantrum” upon hearing that photos of the wedding ceremony had been sold to PEOPLE for a rumoured $70,000. Tatiana was “glad” when the couple divorced in 2011, although by then it was reported that the damage to Tatiana and Grace’s relationship “had been done.”

Throughout the 2010s, several news articles about the princess’s behaviour hit the mainstream press. Allegations that she was unkind to teachers, nannies, and female journalists were frequent, as well as unfounded rumours that she was unkind to her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Woodbine. “She was, and still is, inflamed by all female attention. She viewed them as a threat to James and their boys,” Stuart claimed. “James was the true object of her affections. Her beloved. Her One. So, when he died . . .”

James’s death in 2017 was a major turning point in Tatiana’s life. “To say she was devastated would be a profound understatement.” When Peter visited his sister in early 2018, he was alarmed by her “zombielike” state and accused the palace of neglecting her and Princes Nicholas and Alex. In contrast to Princess Ruby, Tatiana's similarly widowed predecessor, Tatiana rejected the title Princess Dowager. Later in the year, Chester Palace clarified Tatiana’s role: “Her Royal Highness remains a valued member of the family and will continue to carry out duties as the mother of a future sovereign.” Louis V’s private secretary later summarized: “Poor lady.”

In the decade since James’s death, Tatiana has been inconsistent, flighty, and increasingly protective of her two boys. In a 2025 television interview, the Dowager Countess Farnsworth spoke candidly about her daughter’s future. “I believe Tatiana needs to find purpose and security from within. This will be most challenging for her, as she struggles with her self-esteem. James was the bandage for a chronic situation [ . . .] some of that is on me, I guess.”

“We all want that tall, dark gentleman to whisk us away and tell us we’re pretty, don’t we?” - The Dowager Countess Farsworth as cited in "Tatiana's life and loves", SBN News (April 19, 2025).

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Hello, It's Me Again, A Simple Daughter Looking to Help her Family

Yes. I know, I'm sharing out another crowd fundraiser. I know some of you may be tired of seeing them, and truth be told I'm exhausted with making them, but when it comes to potentially life-threatening situations that my family is being forced to live through, I will do all I can do help them out.

But I shall add everything below for those who do not wish to see more.

My dad has been suffering for nearly a year now, and he’s only just now been vulnerable enough to share with me just how bad his situation has gotten since he was in the hospital for congestive heart failure. He and my step family are facing financial devastation due to his being unable to work for almost a year, medical prescriptions costing more than $1000 a month, and the everyday expenses that stop for no man. To the point where they're about to lose their home, their mode of transporation, and have no finances for basic necessities.

It's hard for me to be literally halfway across the world and have no physical way to help them, but at least I can create a fundraiser to try and raise money to help him get the funds needed to at least give him and my family space to breathe.

So if you're still here and reading? Thank you, and please consider donating, however small. As I've learned, a little goes a long way. Which is why even if you're unable to donate, please help me with sharing out this fundraiser. No one should have to face financial ruin for being sick, but unfortunately, that is the story of every American, and I do not want to see my dad, who is only 54, be a victim to this massively broken system.

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Sunderland's Royal Jewel Vault (39/∞) ♛

↬ The Duchess of Westminster's Star Tiara

Made in the nineteenth century, this diamond tiara features prominent star clip brooches that once belonged to Princess Amelia of Sunderland (a daughter of King Louis II). It was inherited by Amelia’s namesake and goddaughter Princess Amelia Elizabeth of Westminster in 1870. By 1891 Amelia Elizabeth had altered the stars into a flexible headband, and in 1902, a tiara base featuring scrolling elements was added. Ultimately, Amelia Elizabeth left the tiara to her eldest daughter, Helen. Despite having four children of her own, the tiara didn’t stay within Helen’s family, instead falling into the hands of her cousin: Queen Anne of Sunderland. Since then the jewel has stayed with the Warwicks. It was handed over to Anne’s daughter-in-law, Queen Katherine, in the late 1950s. Katherine wore the piece a few times during her husband’s reign, but was shelved in 1960, having never been Katherine’s favourite. In more recent years, the tiara was loaned to Tatiana, Princess of Danforth, one of the three tiaras she received from her in-laws in the late 90s and early 00s. Tatiana has yet to wear the piece as a tiara, instead opting for its original brooch setting. Creation: Early nineteenth century, altered in 1891 by court jeweller Albemarle Provenance: 1) Princess Amelia of Sunderland 2) Princess Amelia Elizabeth, Duchess of Sunningdale 3) Helen, Marchioness of Dufferin 4) Queen Anne of Sunderland 5) Queen Katherine of Sunderland 6) Queen Irene of Sunderland Other wearers: Tatiana, Princess of Danforth Commissioned/Purchased by: Princess Amelia of Sunderland Status: On loan to Tatiana, Princess of Danforth

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The Honourable Tatiana Grace Farnsworth was born on April 19, 1977

On April 19, 1977, the Burgrave and Burgravine of Weyward welcomed their fourth and youngest child. The baby, a girl, was met with a lukewarm reaction from her parents, who were hoping for a second son, a spare for one of the oldest aristocratic families in the country. The families of John Spencer Farnsworth (1940 - 2008) and his wife, Lady Grace (née Burke; 1952 - ), had been closely allied with the Sunderlandian Royal Family for the past century. Their mothers, Ellinor Farnsworth, Countess Farnsworth and Sylvia Burke, Duchess of Lewisham, were ladies-in-waiting to Queen Katherine. Sylvia’s grandmother was the Russian-born Princess Anna Felixovna Obolensky, a confidante and lady-in-waiting to Queen Alexandra. The newest addition to this historic brood was named Tatiana Grace, after her mother and a maternal great-great-aunt who was once considered as a bride for George Nicholas, Prince of Danforth. Her family called her “Tush” because, according to her mother, she was “a sore bottom.”

Tatiana joined three older siblings: Peter “The Great” (1968 - ), Elena (1970 - ), and Anya (1974 -). The children were brought up on the Wolferton Estate, just a stone’s throw from the main house. King Louis V, or “Uncle Loo” as the Farnsworth children called him, was not a stranger to the family, nor was the rest of the royal family. Lady Grace was a close friend of Queen Irene—“too close,” Louis V once grated. Despite the king’s ambivalence, it was Grace who convinced Irene not to divorce Louis in 1982. Little Tatiana played with Princess Jacqueline and Prince James, who was just two months older.

“It was a wonderful childhood, really,” Tatiana would later state. “But so lonely.” By the time Tatiana was a toddler, her older siblings had been sent off to boarding school, and she was raised as an only child. Tush was placed in the care of a governess and confided to the nursery, where visits from her parents were infrequent. By 1978, the cracks in the Weywards’ marriage had turned to canyons, deepened by a twelve-year age difference. To distract Tatiana from the marital strife, her father provided her with an abundance of household pets, including rabbits, hamsters, a cockatoo, a tabby cat called Marzipan, and a pair of Shetland ponies. Although Spencer rarely set foot in the nursery, which resembled a zoo, Tatiana was extremely loyal to her father.

When she was seven, Tatiana’s mother “ran off” with Charles Foy, heir to a drapery fortune. Although Grace later returned home “heartbroken and humiliated”, Tatiana never forgave her mother and grew to resent her. At Chester Palace, Queen Irene worried that Grace’s flight was a “cry for help” but didn’t dare to pry. Louis V’s third child, Prince Phillip, later claimed his parents were disturbed by the Burgrave’s tendency to treat his wife like “the disposable lid of a microwave dinner.” Although rumours of abuse and extramarital affairs persisted, the couple remained married until Spencer’s death.

“We were the laughing stock for that whole summer. I don’t think my father ever got over it.” - Lady Anya Villeneuve as cited in "Meet the in-laws: Who are the Farnsworths of Weyward?", SBN News (December 1, 1998)

When she was nine, Tatiana joined her sisters at Abbey Wood, an all-girls prep school. Classmates described Tatiana as a walking cliche. “She was shy but not boring; she just needed to come out of her shell. She had these stunning green eyes. She never wore tons of makeup, just mascara. You know. She was beautiful, but she didn’t know it.” Tatiana was not academically gifted, failing math twice and having to take summer school a handful of times. One term studying at a Swiss finishing school did not improve her grades. “She was intellectually dormant,” her mother claimed. “She didn’t want to study or learn. All she wanted to do was dance.”

The year before Abbey Wood, Tatiana’s brother gifted her a book of ballerina paper dolls at Christmas. The gift, a thoughtless stocking stuffer gifted by a teenager, had a profound impact. From that moment on, Tatiana became obsessed with classical ballet. After months of tears and begging, Spencer enrolled Tatiana in tap and ballet classes. Soon, ballet became Tatiana’s whole world, consuming every inch of her free time and occupying her dreams, both day and night. She idolized Natalia Makarova just as much as she did Mariah Carey and Paula Abdul. By thorteen, Tatiana was en pointe and the winner of several national ballet titles. Royal biographer Agnes Stuart wrote in 2007 that ballet was the only thing Tatiana was “truly, exceptionally, good at.”

“She wasn’t particularly intelligent or charismatic. Her mother had few positive words to say about her. She got that validation from dance. And she clung to it.” - Agnes Stuart "Royal Brides and Bodies", The New Yorker (April 2005) “I told her: you can’t make a career out of that. I had read a magazine. All these gymnast and ballerina girls were miserable and anorexic. It’s not what people want nowadays. They wanted ladies in the office. Secretaries or typists or whatever.” - Countess Farsworth as cited in "Meet the in-laws: Who are the Farnsworths of Weyward?", SBN News (December 1, 1998)

Parallel to ballet ran another obsession, just as passionate but far more consequential for Tatiana’s life. Tatiana began dating her childhood friend, James, the Prince of Danforth, in 1992. The relationship was on and off again, but started ramping up once the couple completed secondary school. Until that point, James and Tatiana had been separated, Tatiana confined to the rural Wolferton Estate and James living in the city. As adults, the pair were granted independence from their parents and a closer proximity. James was at Warwick Met, studying a mix of history and philosophy, and Tatiana was at the National Ballet School. The two campuses were just five blocks away. By 1996, Tatiana and James were attached at the hip; a fact that wasn’t missed by their families—or Sunderland’s press.

In 1997, Tatiana, who had since become Lady Tatiana Farnsworth following the death of her paternal grandfather, was invited to Collingwood Castle, the royals’ summer home. From there, she joined the royal family aboard the HMSY Sunderlania for a weekend cruise to the Canadian/American Thousand Islands. Tatiana was received well by the King and Queen, as well as by James’s grandmother, Queen Katherine. However, Tatiana’s family had mixed feelings about marriage, especially her brother and mother. The Great rejected the idea that Tatiana loved James, telling his little sister, “he gives you attention. And you love attention, Tush.”

Marrying James would also mean giving up her ballet career. Throughout the late 1990s, Tatiana was fielding several professional offers from ballet companies in Warwick, London, and Los Angeles. Her early career part of NBS’s Corps de ballet was marked by acclaimed performances in Giselle, Don Quixote, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty. The New York Times described Lady Tatiana as “buoyant and refined [. . .] Perhaps one out of 25 wunderkind in North American ballet.” In January 1998, NBS’s principal choreographer a Natasha Allred, gave Tatiana frank advice. Marrying James meant sacrificing a career as a soloist. “You’ll be turning your back on NBS. On Broadway.”

“I think you will regret it, is all I’m saying.”

James proposed to Lady Tatiana at Rockcliffe Palace in June 1998, and the pair were married that December. The wedding ceremony took place at the colossal St. Andrew’s Cathedral, which offered majestic views to nearly 600,000 spectators. Eyebrows were raised when Tatiana vowed “to obey”, a line that was not included in the 1997 wedding ceremony of Princess Jacqueline and Earl Belmont.

As Princess of Danforth, Tatiana’s life revolved around public appearances and childrearing. Her first child, Prince Nicholas, was born in April 2000, followed by Prince Alex in July 2002. In May 2001, Tatiana attended her first Opening of Parliament. Her inaugural international visit was to New York City in March 2002 to commemorate victims of the September 11th attacks. In 2003, Tatiana accompanied James, Nicholas, and a ten-month-old Alex to Western Sunderland. In August 2004, Tatiana was made patron of NBS, her former school, and twenty-five other institutions across the country. 2006 was dominated by international visits to Thailand, France, Canada, and an extensive tour of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, where Tatiana highlighted women’s development in the region. In 2003, Tatiana confided to Second Lady Lynne Cheney that she “didn’t expect” her life as Princess of Danforth to be “so exhausting.” The late 2000s were characterized by a string of publicized family tragedies, among them a stillborn baby girl and her brother’s salacious divorce and remarriage. In 2008, the tragedies crescendoed when Tatiana’s father died following a stroke. Her mother married a Spanish aristocrat the following year. Tatiana resented her new stepfather, refused to meet him, and threw a “temper tantrum” upon hearing that photos of the wedding ceremony had been sold to PEOPLE for a rumoured $70,000. Tatiana was “glad” when the couple divorced in 2011, although by then it was reported that the damage to Tatiana and Grace’s relationship “had been done.”

Throughout the 2010s, several news articles about the princess’s behaviour hit the mainstream press. Allegations that she was unkind to teachers, nannies, and female journalists were frequent, as well as unfounded rumours that she was unkind to her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Woodbine. “She was, and still is, inflamed by all female attention. She viewed them as a threat to James and their boys,” Stuart claimed. “James was the true object of her affections. Her beloved. Her One. So, when he died . . .”

James’s death in 2017 was a major turning point in Tatiana’s life. “To say she was devastated would be a profound understatement.” When Peter visited his sister in early 2018, he was alarmed by her “zombielike” state and accused the palace of neglecting her and Princes Nicholas and Alex. In contrast to Princess Ruby, Tatiana's similarly widowed predecessor, Tatiana rejected the title Princess Dowager. Later in the year, Chester Palace clarified Tatiana’s role: “Her Royal Highness remains a valued member of the family and will continue to carry out duties as the mother of a future sovereign.” Louis V’s private secretary later summarized: “Poor lady.”

In the decade since James’s death, Tatiana has been inconsistent, flighty, and increasingly protective of her two boys. In a 2025 television interview, the Dowager Countess Farnsworth spoke candidly about her daughter’s future. “I believe Tatiana needs to find purpose and security from within. This will be most challenging for her, as she struggles with her self-esteem. James was the bandage for a chronic situation [ . . .] some of that is on me, I guess.”

“We all want that tall, dark gentleman to whisk us away and tell us we’re pretty, don’t we?” - The Dowager Countess Farsworth as cited in "Tatiana's life and loves", SBN News (April 19, 2025).

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The Honourable Tatiana Grace Farnsworth was born on April 19, 1977

On April 19, 1977, the Burgrave and Burgravine of Weyward welcomed their fourth and youngest child. The baby, a girl, was met with a lukewarm reaction from her parents, who were hoping for a second son, a spare for one of the oldest aristocratic families in the country. The families of John Spencer Farnsworth (1940 - 2008) and his wife, Lady Grace (née Burke; 1952 - ), had been closely allied with the Sunderlandian Royal Family for the past century. Their mothers, Ellinor Farnsworth, Countess Farnsworth and Sylvia Burke, Duchess of Lewisham, were ladies-in-waiting to Queen Katherine. Sylvia’s grandmother was the Russian-born Princess Anna Felixovna Obolensky, a confidante and lady-in-waiting to Queen Alexandra. The newest addition to this historic brood was named Tatiana Grace, after her mother and a maternal great-great-aunt who was once considered as a bride for George Nicholas, Prince of Danforth. Her family called her “Tush” because, according to her mother, she was “a sore bottom.”

Tatiana joined three older siblings: Peter “The Great” (1968 - ), Elena (1970 - ), and Anya (1974 -). The children were brought up on the Wolferton Estate, just a stone’s throw from the main house. King Louis V, or “Uncle Loo” as the Farnsworth children called him, was not a stranger to the family, nor was the rest of the royal family. Lady Grace was a close friend of Queen Irene—“too close,” Louis V once grated. Despite the king’s ambivalence, it was Grace who convinced Irene not to divorce Louis in 1982. Little Tatiana played with Princess Jacqueline and Prince James, who was just two months older.

“It was a wonderful childhood, really,” Tatiana would later state. “But so lonely.” By the time Tatiana was a toddler, her older siblings had been sent off to boarding school, and she was raised as an only child. Tush was placed in the care of a governess and confided to the nursery, where visits from her parents were infrequent. By 1978, the cracks in the Weywards’ marriage had turned to canyons, deepened by a twelve-year age difference. To distract Tatiana from the marital strife, her father provided her with an abundance of household pets, including rabbits, hamsters, a cockatoo, a tabby cat called Marzipan, and a pair of Shetland ponies. Although Spencer rarely set foot in the nursery, which resembled a zoo, Tatiana was extremely loyal to her father.

When she was seven, Tatiana’s mother “ran off” with Charles Foy, heir to a drapery fortune. Although Grace later returned home “heartbroken and humiliated”, Tatiana never forgave her mother and grew to resent her. At Chester Palace, Queen Irene worried that Grace’s flight was a “cry for help” but didn’t dare to pry. Louis V’s third child, Prince Phillip, later claimed his parents were disturbed by the Burgrave’s tendency to treat his wife like “the disposable lid of a microwave dinner.” Although rumours of abuse and extramarital affairs persisted, the couple remained married until Spencer’s death.

“We were the laughing stock for that whole summer. I don’t think my father ever got over it.” - Lady Anya Villeneuve as cited in "Meet the in-laws: Who are the Farnsworths of Weyward?", SBN News (December 1, 1998)

When she was nine, Tatiana joined her sisters at Abbey Wood, an all-girls prep school. Classmates described Tatiana as a walking cliche. “She was shy but not boring; she just needed to come out of her shell. She had these stunning green eyes. She never wore tons of makeup, just mascara. You know. She was beautiful, but she didn’t know it.” Tatiana was not academically gifted, failing math twice and having to take summer school a handful of times. One term studying at a Swiss finishing school did not improve her grades. “She was intellectually dormant,” her mother claimed. “She didn’t want to study or learn. All she wanted to do was dance.”

The year before Abbey Wood, Tatiana’s brother gifted her a book of ballerina paper dolls at Christmas. The gift, a thoughtless stocking stuffer gifted by a teenager, had a profound impact. From that moment on, Tatiana became obsessed with classical ballet. After months of tears and begging, Spencer enrolled Tatiana in tap and ballet classes. Soon, ballet became Tatiana’s whole world, consuming every inch of her free time and occupying her dreams, both day and night. She idolized Natalia Makarova just as much as she did Mariah Carey and Paula Abdul. By thorteen, Tatiana was en pointe and the winner of several national ballet titles. Royal biographer Agnes Stuart wrote in 2007 that ballet was the only thing Tatiana was “truly, exceptionally, good at.”

“She wasn’t particularly intelligent or charismatic. Her mother had few positive words to say about her. She got that validation from dance. And she clung to it.” - Agnes Stuart "Royal Brides and Bodies", The New Yorker (April 2005) “I told her: you can’t make a career out of that. I had read a magazine. All these gymnast and ballerina girls were miserable and anorexic. It’s not what people want nowadays. They wanted ladies in the office. Secretaries or typists or whatever.” - Countess Farsworth as cited in "Meet the in-laws: Who are the Farnsworths of Weyward?", SBN News (December 1, 1998)

Parallel to ballet ran another obsession, just as passionate but far more consequential for Tatiana’s life. Tatiana began dating her childhood friend, James, the Prince of Danforth, in 1992. The relationship was on and off again, but started ramping up once the couple completed secondary school. Until that point, James and Tatiana had been separated, Tatiana confined to the rural Wolferton Estate and James living in the city. As adults, the pair were granted independence from their parents and a closer proximity. James was at Warwick Met, studying a mix of history and philosophy, and Tatiana was at the National Ballet School. The two campuses were just five blocks away. By 1996, Tatiana and James were attached at the hip; a fact that wasn’t missed by their families—or Sunderland’s press.

In 1997, Tatiana, who had since become Lady Tatiana Farnsworth following the death of her paternal grandfather, was invited to Collingwood Castle, the royals’ summer home. From there, she joined the royal family aboard the HMSY Sunderlania for a weekend cruise to the Canadian/American Thousand Islands. Tatiana was received well by the King and Queen, as well as by James’s grandmother, Queen Katherine. However, Tatiana’s family had mixed feelings about marriage, especially her brother and mother. The Great rejected the idea that Tatiana loved James, telling his little sister, “he gives you attention. And you love attention, Tush.”

Marrying James would also mean giving up her ballet career. Throughout the late 1990s, Tatiana was fielding several professional offers from ballet companies in Warwick, London, and Los Angeles. Her early career part of NBS’s Corps de ballet was marked by acclaimed performances in Giselle, Don Quixote, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty. The New York Times described Lady Tatiana as “buoyant and refined [. . .] Perhaps one out of 25 wunderkind in North American ballet.” In January 1998, NBS’s principal choreographer a Natasha Allred, gave Tatiana frank advice. Marrying James meant sacrificing a career as a soloist. “You’ll be turning your back on NBS. On Broadway.”

“I think you will regret it, is all I’m saying.”

James proposed to Lady Tatiana at Rockcliffe Palace in June 1998, and the pair were married that December. The wedding ceremony took place at the colossal St. Andrew’s Cathedral, which offered majestic views to nearly 600,000 spectators. Eyebrows were raised when Tatiana vowed “to obey”, a line that was not included in the 1997 wedding ceremony of Princess Jacqueline and Earl Belmont.

As Princess of Danforth, Tatiana’s life revolved around public appearances and childrearing. Her first child, Prince Nicholas, was born in April 2000, followed by Prince Alex in July 2002. In May 2001, Tatiana attended her first Opening of Parliament. Her inaugural international visit was to New York City in March 2002 to commemorate victims of the September 11th attacks. In 2003, Tatiana accompanied James, Nicholas, and a ten-month-old Alex to Western Sunderland. In August 2004, Tatiana was made patron of NBS, her former school, and twenty-five other institutions across the country. 2006 was dominated by international visits to Thailand, France, Canada, and an extensive tour of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, where Tatiana highlighted women’s development in the region. In 2003, Tatiana confided to Second Lady Lynne Cheney that she “didn’t expect” her life as Princess of Danforth to be “so exhausting.” The late 2000s were characterized by a string of publicized family tragedies, among them a stillborn baby girl and her brother’s salacious divorce and remarriage. In 2008, the tragedies crescendoed when Tatiana’s father died following a stroke. Her mother married a Spanish aristocrat the following year. Tatiana resented her new stepfather, refused to meet him, and threw a “temper tantrum” upon hearing that photos of the wedding ceremony had been sold to PEOPLE for a rumoured $70,000. Tatiana was “glad” when the couple divorced in 2011, although by then it was reported that the damage to Tatiana and Grace’s relationship “had been done.”

Throughout the 2010s, several news articles about the princess’s behaviour hit the mainstream press. Allegations that she was unkind to teachers, nannies, and female journalists were frequent, as well as unfounded rumours that she was unkind to her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Woodbine. “She was, and still is, inflamed by all female attention. She viewed them as a threat to James and their boys,” Stuart claimed. “James was the true object of her affections. Her beloved. Her One. So, when he died . . .”

James’s death in 2017 was a major turning point in Tatiana’s life. “To say she was devastated would be a profound understatement.” When Peter visited his sister in early 2018, he was alarmed by her “zombielike” state and accused the palace of neglecting her and Princes Nicholas and Alex. In contrast to Princess Ruby, Tatiana's similarly widowed predecessor, Tatiana rejected the title Princess Dowager. Later in the year, Chester Palace clarified Tatiana’s role: “Her Royal Highness remains a valued member of the family and will continue to carry out duties as the mother of a future sovereign.” Louis V’s private secretary later summarized: “Poor lady.”

In the decade since James’s death, Tatiana has been inconsistent, flighty, and increasingly protective of her two boys. In a 2025 television interview, the Dowager Countess Farnsworth spoke candidly about her daughter’s future. “I believe Tatiana needs to find purpose and security from within. This will be most challenging for her, as she struggles with her self-esteem. James was the bandage for a chronic situation [ . . .] some of that is on me, I guess.”

“We all want that tall, dark gentleman to whisk us away and tell us we’re pretty, don’t we?” - The Dowager Countess Farsworth as cited in "Tatiana's life and loves", SBN News (April 19, 2025).