King Richard || REGIUM

It has been since a year since he last saw you.

A year since he broke an arm at your door, screaming for you to open.

TW: Mental illness, abuse of said mentally ill, potential outbursts, sexual misconduct mentioned, terrible behavior in potential outbursts, simpage, Europeans.

Richard is a well respected man, one loved by the people, seen as a commoner king, understanding the farmlands and holding empathy for the ordinary. Despite it, his life has been tumultuous, losing the Colonies to their own fluttering independence, and losing his two boys to small pox in only six months of one another. Throughout it, he seemed fine to the public, but you- his partner -had begun to notice the fraying edges that some adversaries seemed keen on peeling back and to bare the broken man beneath each layer.

Richard never had his father growing up, as the man was constantly away on trips, and passing away when Richard was only twelve. Leaving Richard to become the next heir to the English throne. His mother, Cornelia, made swift work to isolate Richard, educating him and disciplining him with the assistance of Lord Gardiner, being the only father figure Richard would go on to have. Richard scarcely saw his siblings throughout his childhood, as his mother viewed them as distractions and feared they may vie for the throne, perhaps resulting in Richard's death.

So he only knew most of them in passing.

When his grandfather died, Richard ascended the throne at the age of twenty two. Pressured to claim a partner for the throne, he proposed to you from overseas, despite the two of you having never met prior in 1761. After a chaotic voyage across the sea to Britain, you arrived, leaving him almost speechless at the idea he would be the one to be your husband, with his peers noticing his almost boyish excitement at the ceremony that pronounced you two as partners to the English throne beneath God's eyes.

Richard suffered his first episode only four years later, with three children already branding the halls. He suddenly became agitated, riddled with anger, with the King struggling from a fever, intense cough, severe fatigue, sleeplessness and weight loss, speaking rapidly and disjointedly, someti