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PUBLIC PRESSURE GROWS FOR RESTORATION OF DUCHESS ARIANNE

Dateline: 20-11-517


A public demonstration in the city of Poldoon calling for the restoration of ex-Duchess Arianne has added to the pressure on King Dirk to rehabilitate his royal kinswoman.


A large crowd, estimated by some to have been in the hundreds, gathered outside the Ducal Palace in Poldoon shortly before dusk and spent the evening holding candles and chanting the former Duchess’ name. To some onlookers, their call sounded almost like a prayer.


“We want Arianne back as our Duchess, not this so called greatest warrior, who runs away,” one of the crowd told our Poldoon correspondent, clearly referring not to Duke Raven but to his wife Baroness Glaze. “We've seen better fighting skills on any alley cat in Poldoon.”


Although some of the City Guards were itching to break up the demonstration, they were told to show restraint, apparently on the direct orders of the Duke, and as the evening grew colder the demonstration broke up peacefully and the protesters drifted away.


However it is clear that it is the figure of Baroness Glaze Aiven which has polarised the people of the city - Poldooners, it would seem, either love her or hate her.


Some, though by no means all, of the city’s senior religious leaders have added their voices to the official petition to the King for the restoration of Lady Arianne, who as a priestess herself has the backing of many of the faithful.


However those who support the Raven for Duke have cast doubts over the former Duchess’ fitness to hold high office, pointing in particular at the questionable parentage of her daughter Princess Grace. Arianne was married to the Lizard Man Lord Grrrr!!!!, late brother of notorious monster leader Grrrr!!!! Snr. Arianne has always insisted that Lord Grrrr!!!! was Grace’s father. At the time of her birth many in Poldoon questioned whether such a thing was biologically possible, but Arianne insisted that Bethseline had smiled upon their union and therefore anything was possible. Princess Grace, it should be added, appears outwardly to be entirely human, but Grrrr!!!! Snr continues to believe that she is his niece. However many in Poldoon has questioned the propriety of a Duchess of the Realm marrying a monster, and some have even suggested that such a marriage can have no legal validity.  


Baroness Glaze herself was not present in the city during the demonstration, and the Duke has made no public comment.

SEE ALSO


19-09-517 - Petition calls for restoration of Duchess Arianne


18-08-516 - Duke Dirk claims the Throne


10-01-516 - Raven rebuffs duel challenge


01-01-516 - The Raven and Glaze marry in secret