Meinara Libalatu Ŋura-Eilara

Meinara Libalatu Ŋura-Eilara
Her Royal Majesty Queen Meinara
Personal life
Birth:	May 5, 1935 Laguria, BN, BT
Death:	August 22, 2005 Laguria, BN, BT
Spouse:	HRM Anemir King of the Iris
Children:	HRM King Ateni HRH Crown Princess Lehura HRH Crown Princess Samara HRH Crown Prince Uneri
Royal Titles and Offices
Queen of Baranxtu	May 5, 1962 - July 7, 1992

Meinara Libalatu Ŋura-Eilara is the 13th souvereign of Baranxtu from the dynasty of Ŋurīa-Eilarīa. She is famous among the people of the republic for her language, as she does not refrain at all from using expletives.

Biography

She was born the second child of Queen Libala and her husband King Ateni on March 5th, 1935 in the small town of Laguria where the family residence of the Ŋurīa-Eilarīa is located. As she was not intended to ever become queen, she was relatively free and uninhibited as a child. There have been many by now famous incidents where she would go missing for a few hours, only to return later, having caught a new animal or picked a bunch of flowers.

This continued well into her adolescence, including many flirts and flings with boys and girls alike. In 1951, however, she got pregnant, probably fathered by Haliasi Etobentu Argeni, one of the many confirmed lovers of Meinara Ŋura-Eilara. The baby, a boy, was born prematurely in early March 1952, and died shortly after birth. He was baptized Raci Haliasitu Argeni and buried in the Argenīa family tomb in Laguria, lendig credence to the theory that Haliasi Argeni was the father.
After that, Meinara Ŋura-Eilara completely changed. She started to lead a celibate life and devoted herself to studying.

She started to study politology and history at the University of Baranxiž, where she met her future husband Anemir Ŋōri-Micemi, a member of a distantly related Asuanituan branch of the Ŋurīa dynasty, in 1955. They fell in love, and married in 1957. In 1959, they moved back to the Republic Baranxtu, as a part of the management of her family's estates.
Meinara Ŋura-Eilara gave birth to the couple's first child, Ateni, in 1960.

In 1960 the reconstitution of the Alliance of Manya and Baranxi took place. Though the houses of parliament had voted in favor of the newly shaped alliance, Queen Libala refused to give royal assent and subsequently, the republic was ejected from the alliance. This move made Queen Libala quite unpopular with the population, and a referendum in early 1961 called for her removal from the throne.
Though originally Meinara's sister, Aña Libalatu Ŋura-Eilara, was supposed to follow her mother as queen, she surprisingly rejected her position, and so Meinara was suddenly the new heiress to the throne.
Due to following legal formalities that had to be done, she did not become queen ontil 1962.

Afterwards, she would often publicly lament her struŋle with her new responsibilities, as the life as a queen severely impacted with her personal life. It was actually this attitude that endeared her to her subjects, as well as her down-to earth personality, and later for her sarcastic political commentary. She was the first souvereign ever to write a weekly column (from 1967 on, in the Baranxtuan Weekly Review), and was a regular contributor to the Frank and Uncensored radio programme.

After a series of miscarriages in the 1960, she gave birth to twins, Lehura and Samara, in 1965. Not even a full year later, she gave birth to her fourth child, Unari. After that, she stated she was "content now with four children" and openly admitted to using both the pill and condoms. She became a very vocal advocate of contraception and related bills.

In 1989, her husband died of liver cancer. She did not abdicate immediately, but she has not told her reasons for this yet.
However, in 1992, she stated that her responsibilities as queen were to much a burden for her now that she was a widow, and she abdicated in favor of her son, Ateni.

Queen Meinara died August 22nd in the family residence in Laguria after having suffered a stroke three days earlier. She died surrounded by her family, just as she had always wanted.