Princess Arabella of Iksander
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Her Royal Highness Princess Arabella of Iksander (Arabella Katherina Elisabeth Adelaide Helene Dagmar Marie), born on 18 June, 1921, is a member of the Alessandrian Royal Family, grandson of the current King Philipp II, and is the youngest child and only daughter of Prince Rupprecht, Duke of Iksander and his wife, Cecilie, Countess of Arnheim. As a female, she had no succession rights, because Alessandri is Semi-Salic, which does not permit females to accend the throne unless the male lines are exhausted. Any sons that she has will be in line for the throne, however, because the throne allows succession to males through the female line, which was what allowed her grandfather to become king.
Princess Arabella was born on June 26, 1919 at Schloss Ottosbrun, his parents' primary residence. Her name, Arabella, which means "beautiful eagle," in German is, like her eldest brother's, unusual among the royal family. It was chosen for its connections to the family's ancestor, the first king of Alessandri. His mother was called Arabella. The princess' father is HRH the Duke of Iksander, the eldest son of King Philipp and Queen Elisabeth. She has two elder brothers, HRH Prince Emmanuel of Iksander and HRH Prince Georg of Iksander. As a grandchild of the monarch and daughter of the Duke of Iksander, she is styled Her Royal Highness Princess Arabella of Iksander.
Since the age of four, Arabella has been betrothed to Lord Friedrich Oskar, the eldest son of the Duke of Brunswick, who was born in 1919. Friedrich Oskar and his siblings, Ernest Ludwig (1920), Anna (1922), and Frederica (1925), vacation often with the Crown Prince's children, and Katherina and Friedrich Oskar have gradually grow fond of each other.
