Mariela of Melleray

Mariela of Melleray
Title Queen of Malat and Lady of Melleray Birthday 15 May 1988 Father Thibault of Melleray Mother Maria of St. Vittorio

Her Majesty Queen Mariela (Mariela Constance Elizabeth) (born 15 May 1988), styled Her Majesty the Queen, is the Queen regnant and Head of State of the Second Malatese Republic and is also Lady of Melleray. She was crowned on 21 January 2005.

Life

Queen Mariela was born at the Palais du Croix Sainte, the ancestral home of the Lords of Melleray in that city. Her father Thibault was the oldest child of the Lady of Melleray and her mother Marie was the youngest daughter of the Lord of St. Vittorio. She was named for her mother and grandmothers, Constance of Melleray and Catherine of St. Vittorio.

For four years after her birth, the parents and their young daughter lived in a chateau in the heart of Mellerey's wine country. Her mother saw to her needs, foregoing the usual nannies and governesses during that time. Thibault was often away on his business, but the family was remarkably close-knit living in the seclusion that the rural setting provided.

On 22 June 1992, Thibault and Marie were killed in a plane crash not far from their home. The young Mariela was brought back to the place of her birth by her paternal grandmother Constance, the Lady of Melleray.

Education

The young daughter of the heir of Melleray was taught at home during her first four years. After the death of her parents, young Mariela lived for six years in the house of her grandmother, educated by tutors and governesses. This early education consisted of the basic mathematics and sciences along with a grounding in languages, including her native Malatese, the Melleray dialact of French along with the Italian of her mother's family.

Upon Mariela's tenth year, Lady Constance sent her granddaughter to the School of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart for continued education. By all accounts, Mariela was an excellent student who furthered her fluency in French and Italian.

Coronation

In early 2005, a few months before the seventeenth birthday of Mariela, the general strike was broken by Count Fernando's government. This immediately led to the civil war that would carry the young lady to the throne of Malat.

Fernando abdicated the comittal throne and the Malatese Party of National Revival called for Mariela as a compromise candidate to rule as Queen of Malat. The loyalist faction elected Mariela's grandmother Constance to a second term as Countess. This state continued for several days until the mysterious murder of Constance in Melleray.

The people hailed Mariela as the leader of their island and accepted the young lady into their hearts as their queen and she was crowned on 21 January. Eighteen days later, on 8 February, the death of the Queen's grandmother was announced and Mariela assumed the additional title of Lady of Melleray.