Adélaïde II

Adélaïde II (30 April 1845- 28 December 1906) was Queen of Genovia from 1864 until her death in 1908. From birth to 1864,she was Duchess of Renaldi. Growing up as a princess of the House of Renaldi, a junior branch of the Genovian House of Bourbon which had ruled France since 1759, Adélaïde was originally not in the immediate line of succession to the Genovian throne, and was considered the legitimate sovereign of Genovia by many Genovian Nationalists who hated the Bourbon's rule as 'foreigners' led to many rebellions and was considered a threat to her cousin Victoria Isabella, Victoria Isabella attempts at rule by decree and the birth of her son, Louis Albert led to her deposition in the Glorious Revolution of 1864 and the adoption of the Genovian Bill of Rights.

She was elected to the vacant throne of Genovia against, following the deposition of her cousin Victoria Isabella, and crowned the next year. Due to her popularity and status as Genovia's first elected monarch, he became known as "The People's Queen", and she became a national icon due to the length of her reign and the high standards of personal morality with which she was identified. Adélaïde II supported liberal majority governments against the ever-shrinking conservative forces in Genovia. And only once appointed a conservative minority cabinet. This change brought full parliamentary government to Genovia.