The Council represents all 22 species in the Kingdom and all have picked their best, most well connected “person”. (The jury’s out on whether the orcs count as people). This has always been the case and they see no reason to change but Roxannadrell would like at least one or two more lowly folk serving on the Council. She knows she has no chance of getting that kind of concession from the elves. Though this doesn’t stop the monarch voicing her disappointment every so often. Not that the likes of L’Evallier take any notice of this. They feel it is for each species to decide who to send to the Palace and don’t like the Queen trying to interfere here. Eileen has sympathy with the Queen’s aim, one of their few areas of agreement, but the Council doesn’t want the godmother interfering either as they’ve made clear. Each Council member keeps a detailed diary of what they do at each Council meeting and circulate it to their own kind. Naturally there are often 22 different versions of the same Council discussions!
Whilst the Kingdom has had protests, riots and civil wars, particularly in Gwendolyn’s reign, political demonstrations as we know them are a rare thing here. Mostly the Queen and Council govern with no protests at all. It does take desperate or selfish actions by the monarch especially to get folk out on to the streets. The Council is appointed by the Queen but she sounds out each species for recommendations first. Usually there are one or two candidates deemed worthy enough by their own kind to serve on the Council and those then get interviewed several times by village elders and so on before only one name is put forward to the monarch. Village elders can and are influenced by the feelings, usually voiced loudly, by their own people. FNN would dearly love to influence things here as they’ve seen the media do on earth but absolutely nobody in the Kingdom will tolerate that. FNN is there to report facts, not opinions, the only exception being Roherum’s This Week’s Royal Gossip Show as it is felt okay to tittle tattle and giggle over the royals and their indiscretions. Understandably the royals are not fans of this show.
The Council represents all 22 species in the Kingdom and all have picked their best, most well connected “person”. (The jury’s out on whether the orcs count as people). This has always been the case and they see no reason to change but Roxannadrell would like at least one or two more lowly folk serving on the Council. She knows she has no chance of getting that kind of concession from the elves. Though this doesn’t stop the monarch voicing her disappointment every so often. Not that the likes of L’Evallier take any notice of this. They feel it is for each species to decide who to send to the Palace and don’t like the Queen trying to interfere here. Eileen has sympathy with the Queen’s aim, one of their few areas of agreement, but the Council doesn’t want the godmother interfering either as they’ve made clear. Each Council member keeps a detailed diary of what they do at each Council meeting and circulate it to their own kind. Naturally there are often 22 different versions of the same Council discussions!
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AuthorI'm Allison Symes and I write novels, short stories as well as some scripts and poems. I love setting my work in my magical world, the Fairy Kingdom, and my favourite character is Eileen, who believes hypocrisy is something that happens to other people without caring that statement is hypocritical in itself! Eileen is huge fun to write for and about. Archives
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