CURRENT DRAFT:
[Title] Your Highness, You Can Come Out Now
[Validity] Has Monarchy, Has Marriage Equality
[Description] For years, rumour at court had it that the royal family's most prized scion was burdened by a great secret. Yet following the introduction of marriage equality in @@NAME@@, your nation's successor to the throne finally felt confident enough to come out publicly, revealing to secretly have been in a relationship with someone of the same sex for years. Now, the two lovers are asking for permission to marry.
[Option 1a] "It's time to show @@REGION@@ that our monarchy moves with the times," the Crown Prince declares, holding his beloved's hand, who wipes away a carefully choreographed tear. "Our union will turn the royal family into a beacon of tolerance and equality. And if you're worried about succession, just put one of my brothers or their sons next in line to the throne. They've always cared more for that old thing than they did for me, anyway," upon which his lover looks around shiftily.
[Validity] Has Male Primogeniture
[Effect 1a] it appears royals carry more than blue in their blood after all
[Option 1b] "It's time to show @@REGION@@ that our monarchy moves with the times," the Crown Princess declares, holding her beloved's hand, who wipes away a carefully choreographed tear. "Our union will turn the royal family into a beacon of tolerance and equality. And if you're worried about succession, just put one of my sisters or their daughters next in line to the throne. They've always cared more for that old thing than they did for me, anyway," upon which her lover looks around shiftily.
[Validity] Has Female Primogeniture
[Effect 1b] it appears royals carry more than blue in their blood after all
[Option 1c] "It's time to show @@REGION@@ that our monarchy moves with the times," the royal successor declares, holding @@HIS@@ beloved's hand, who wipes away a carefully choreographed tear. "Our union will turn the royal family into a beacon of tolerance and equality. And if you're worried about succession, just put one of my siblings or their children next in line to the throne. They've always cared more for that old thing than they did for me, anyway," upon which @@HIS@@ lover looks around shiftily.
[Validity] Has Absolute Primogeniture
[Effect 1c] it appears royals carry more than blue in their blood after all
[Option 2] "Alas, but we can't," says elderly Prince @@RANDOMMALENAME@@ with morose solemnity, producing an old tome from inside his dress coat. "See here this line from King Henryk's ancient set of family edicts: 'no monarch of @@NAME@@ shall be wed to one who cannot produce a successor to the throne'. Just ignore the fact that he needed an excuse to end his marriage at the time, so as to be wed to his mistress, ahem. Regardless, as this proposed union cannot produce any offspring naturally, tradition binds us to forbid it. I suggest we quickly find our scion someone of the right gender to marry, so that any heartache may be swiftly forgotten."
[Effect 2] it's difficult not to lose one's head around @@NAME@@'s monarchs
[Option 3] "Traditions can be changed to fit the times, you know," poses the much younger and more modernly oriented Princess @@RANDOMFEMALENAME@@. "Look to the ancient Romulans, for example. They practiced a system of adoption when it came to succession. If it's imperative that the future monarch of @@NAME@@ is succeeded by their child, I don't see why we simply couldn't let them adopt a family member or someone else they deem suitable as their legal son or daughter. Then there would no longer be any reason to deny a same-sex marriage in our family, no?"
[Effect 3] the already complicated family relations of the royals just became even more complex
[Option 4] "Science to the rescue!" pops up @@RANDOMNAME@@ from behind a curtain, one of @@NAME@@'s leading scientists on stem cell research. "My team and I have discovered a method to manipulate stem cells derived from adult skin, to form male and female reproduction cells, regardless of gender. In other words, we could offer IVF to same-sex couples, without the need for third party donors! All we require is a little bit of healthy funding to develop our preliminary research into viable medical procedures. Given the circumstances, surely we can count on a royal patronage?"
[Validity] Has high Scientific Advancement
[Effect 4] infertility is no longer a valid excuse for monarchs to dispose of their spouses
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