Alexandra V of Cattala

Alexandra V (Alexandra Mary, born 15th January 1975) is the constitutional monarch of the United Kingdom of Cattala and Princess of Roumeli. As head of state, she is the commander-in-chief of the Armato Salvatori and also influential in the Church of Cattala.

Alexandra was born in Celeste and educated privately in her family palaces in Cape Almae. Her father, Duke George, died in a car accident 1986, when Alexandra was aged 11. Her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, taught Alexandra the roles and duties of being monarch ahead of her imminent accession to the throne. Alexandra became Crown Princess in 1991 and began undertaking public duties alongside her ageing grandmother. Elizabeth ascended to the throne in spring of 1994, and became the youngest monarch in over 500 years, at the age of just 19. Her coronation service was broadcast across the country on big screens and was celebrated with a national holiday.

Two months after becoming Queen, Alexandra married her childhood friend Luciano Vaas in a lavish ceremony attended by monarchs and heads of states from across the world. The couple have three children, Crown Prince Edward, Princess Helena and Prince Louis who were born in December 1994, 1997 and 2000.

Between 1995 and 2001, her sister Princess Gabriella was regent whilst Alexandra raised her children and only performed modest duties as Queen. Since then, Alexandra has taken on full international duties as Queen and has become arguably the most popular monarch since the re-instatement of the crown.

Early life
Alexandra Bonnecelli was the first child of Duke George and Duchess Adriana. Her father was the only son of Queen Elizabeth and Duke Vincent, whilst her mother was the eldest daughter of a Duke from the westerlands of Amosseri. She was born at 3pm on the 15th January 1975 in Vittorius Palace, the royal palace of Celestine, and was baptised in the Celestine Chapel on the 25th June 1975 by the Divina Anima Della Chiesa. Upon her birth, Alexandra was not styled as a Princess due to her being the great-niece of the reigning monarch, King Roger XVI. However she was granted the Duchy of Fieranti by the King, a title bestowed upon senior members of the royal family, which befitted the third-in-line to the throne. She spent most of her young life in her ancestral home in Fieranti, accompanied by her mother and father until he was called to court in 1983 as the King's health declined. Alexandra was close to her younger sister Gabriella, and the two were mostly seen together playing at official events and during family portraits. During the 1984 Winter Olympics, in Yugoslavia, journalists noted that the young princess seemed considerably more "regal" than her sister and older members of the royal staff said she seemed much more "natural" in her position than her father had done at her age.

When Alexandra was eleven, her father died in a car accident. The young Duchess was immediately taken out of the spotlight and moved to one of the rural palaces in Fieranti. She was the only one of her father's three children to attend his funeral. King Roger died less than a year after her father and on the 28th December 1987, the new Crown Princess left her school and Fieranti, to live with her grandmother Queen Elizabeth in Celeste. Elizabeth announced Alexandra as her heiress apparent in her first Christmas Speech as Queen, having previously told Lord Varmini that the princess was the "hope of the realm" and "much lay on her shoulders".

Education
Much like previous generations of royals, Alexandra was educated from the age of three by a governess but was not educated with her younger sister. Following her father's death, Alexandra began attending the Florian School, a distinguished school for the wealthy. Once her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth was crowned, she began taking an active role in the Crown Princess' education and there were numerous rumours of huge rows between Duchess Adriana and Queen Elizabeth regarding Alexandra's education. She left the Florian School after less than a year.

Instead of attending full-time Secondaria school, Alexandra began intensive training for her role as sovereign and returned to governess education, something that her mother could never accept and led to her "storming out of Celeste". Alexandra achieved five B grades and two A grades in her final exams at 16, before leaving education to take on more royal responsibilities. In 1994, during her pregnancy, Alexandra began further education lessons with a governess and has strictly enforced a "complete and thorough" education for her own children.

Titles, styles, honours, and arms

 * 15 January 1975 - 31 December 1986: Alexandra Bonnecelli, Duchess of Fieranti
 * 1 January 1987 - 11 March 1994: Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Alexandra
 * 11 March 1994 - : Her Grace Queen Alexandra the Fifth, Princess of Roumeli

Queen Alexandra, as head of state, has numerous official titles but the most common one is "Her Grace, Queen Alexandra" or "Queen Alexandra the Fifth". When she was born, Alexandra was gifted the title of Duchess of Fieranti, which she then gave up when she became Crown Princess after the death of her uncle, King Roger XVI without an heir, making her heiress apparent to the throne as her grandmother ascended to the throne. In common parlance, she is The Queen or Her Grace. She also has other titles, including "Comandante dei Salvatori" as commander-in-chief of the armed forces and as "Princess of Roumeli".

Her formal title, in full, is Her Grace, Queen Alexandra the Fifth, Sovereign of Greater Cattala and Princess of Roumeli, Protector of the Realm, Duchess of Aliastone and Dame Spiritual of the Faith.

The Queen is also known by her Celestinian title, granted upon her by her ancestral link to the Celestine monarchy and consisting of mostly ancient titles. Her Grace, The Queen Alexandra of House Celestine, the Fifth of Her Name, By the Grace of God, Queen of Greater Cattala, Princess of Roumeli, Scion of the Golden Eagle, Grand Duchess of the Union, Conqueror of Ionia, Commander of the Seven Armies, Queen of the Brown Stag, Dame Spiritual of the Faith

Ancestry
Queen Alexandra is descended from noble houses across Europe, especially the English, Spanish and Italian royal families through her maternal, royal side. The Celestine household regularly married children into dukedoms and lesser royals from across Europe, right up to the late 19th century, to ensure the diplomatic and trade benefits of relations with European kingdoms was maintained. Alexandra's line through her great-grandfather Marco Bonnecelli links her to the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg through his female-line descendancy from Queen Michéle Celestine, daughter of the prince of Schleswig. The Bonnecelli crown can trace its lineage to the House of Bourbon through French and Spanish paternal and maternal ties.