Royal Family of Myalis

= Myalian Royal Family =

Overview
Myalis's current Royal Family, the Silvers, are the people that all laws passed by the parliament must go through- specifically the king and queen, though their relatives and children do enjoy elevated status and some perks as well, besides getting to live in the luxurious Pembridge Palace. The current monarchs are King Oswald Silver and Queen Vivian Silver, and they have two daughters and a son. Their names are Princess Primrose Silver, Princess Audrey Silver and Prince Harvey Silver- with Primrose being the eldest and Harvey being the youngest. They are notable for both being the first anthro leaders in Evis and being the second royal bloodline to inhabit this role. This article will detail what happened with the first royal family later on.

Pembridge Palace
In the year 55A:36, the queen at the time, Queen Iris Burnet, had grown tired of living in Castle Blackstone, and feared that the growing Hecking city limits would soon mean that the castle would be swamped with residential and commercial areas surrounding it. So she commissioned a new palace to be built, further away from Hecking but still considered part of the city's "territory". This palace was even more extravagantly large, though had a much simpler layout, all being constructed around a central courtyard. It featured a less gothic design, though still very elegant. Pembridge Palace, as it was called, bore a closer resemblance to Versailles than the old Castle Blackstone. The new palace was named for the town it was built in, though the town of Pembridge just west of Hecking no longer exists, having become part of Hecking as well. Pembridge used to be a very small town before the palace was built, but it's since become known for being one of Hecking's biggest tourism districts aside from Castle Blackstone itself.

Replacement of the Burnet royal family
For all of Myalis's recorded history, the Burnet family, as it was most recently known, had ruled over Myalis. This human family had changed names several times, as some of the royal women elected to take their husbands' last names instead of keeping their own and pass these new names to their children, thereby changing the name of the royal family. Shortly after the crown was passed to King Theodore Burnet and his new wife, Lydia, tragedy struck for the couple only a few days after the country celebrated their wedding on Veredmy 5th, 55E:02. Theodore and Lydia had gone to Aibrivea for their honeymoon on vacation, and planned to return from Porthampton to Hecking by train. Unfortunately, the train derailed after it hit a section of broken track over a ravine just before the halfway point between Porthampton and Hecking, and the royal couple were instantly killed, along with the three crewmen on the steam engine and 4 of the wait staff in the cars. The only survivors were the 10 remaining wait staff members, who had luckily been in the back of the train during the derailing and subsequent crash into the ravine- however, one of these staffers later died in hospital as a result of his injuries, making the total death toll of this accident 9 people.

Effects of the train accident
The Burnets did not have any children before they died in this tragic accident, meaning that as it stood there was no royal family anymore. In such an instance, the Myalian parliament is approved to appoint a new king, and after a few days of deliberation, high-ranking parliament member Thaddeus Silver of Sootward was chosen, along with his wife, Magdalena. Notably, they were both feline anthros, making them the first anthro leaders in all of Evis. The couple had already had a child while Thaddeus was still a parliament speaker- and this son was Oswald Silver, the current king.

In addition to a new royal family being chosen, the accident that killed King Theodore and Queen Lydia called to attention the problems with Myalis's railway management, particularly outside of metropolitan areas. The Myalian Transportation Commission was immediately required to send teams out to inspect tracks twice a month instead of once every three months, with a special task force being dedicated to railway management in sparsely populated and rural areas. The MTC also later introduced some of its own regulations for manufacturers and rail lines as well, with a newer, more stable form of wheels now being required on all passenger cars and heavier, wider car bases designed to prevent rollovers now becoming the new standard. These changes were met with scrutiny until the MTC assured train operators that these changes, by themselves, would not put any currently operating engines or cars out of operation- these changes were implemented as add-ons or parts that could be easily exchanged without impacting the appearance or performance of the car too much.