Maria Adelheid Von Arthur

Maria Adelheid Von Arthur (Crown Princess and later Queen) is the ruling monarch of the Kingdom of Ruritania and the daughter and only child of the late King Maximo Magnus Von Arthur and Adel Schnelling-Von Arthur (nee Schelling) who died in an aircraft crash in March of 2008. The death of her parents thrust her into the role of becoming queen much before she was ready. She was featured in The Prisoner Agenda.

Background
Maria Adelheid Von Arthur was born in July of 1987 to the ruling monarchs of the Kingdom of Ruritania. She was raised with many of the children of the members Ruritanian Royal Protectorate in an attempt to provide her with childhood friends. Among these were her cousin, Daniel Von Arthur-Stresfeldt, and son of the Captain of the Guard, Fritz Dreyfus. She was groomed from birth to serve as a Royal and thrived in her role. In January 1997 she was declared a Crown Princess and spent a year living with her distant relatives in Great Britain where she learned to speak English.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia, Crown Princess Maria represented Ruritania as her country's special envoy. In 2001, Crown Princess Maria met with US President George W. Bush as a show of solidarity after the September 11 Terrorist Attacks. She made a mini-tour of the US East Coast and regretted not visiting Texas and California.

Her life between 2002 and 2008 was that of further education in her Royal duties and on-going diplomacy with the neighboring Kingdom of San Domina. In that time it was assumed that she would eventually marry Crown Prince Dieter Fursten of San Domina. These rumors, however, proved unfounded in that the two never seemed to be officially begin courting.

Crown Princess Maria's life was turned upside down when, on the 5th of March 2008, a plane carrying King Maximo and Queen Adel crashed in the Swiss Alps. The Royal couple was to attend an Economic Conference on the British Channel Island of Jersey when their Beechcraft Bonanza G36, which had teken off from an air field in San Domina, crashed killing the pilot and royal couple. The King and Queen were recovered from the crash site and buried in a State Funeral on 26 March 2008. A Coronation date was set by Colonel Ballistaire Zapt, Chief Protector, for the 7th of May, 2009.

Appearances
Queen Maria Adelheid Von Arthur features as a major plot point in The Prisoner Agenda, both the 2016 and 2021 versions.

"The Prisoner Agenda" (2021)