The Prince of Waterloo

Every little girl’s dream is to have the most beautiful horse in the world who is on her side, and, who protects her, stands by her – no matter what!

The Prince of Waterloo

A Script by Jon Presco

Copyright 2018

Amelia Rosalina Van Bogaart, is the owner of a Frisian Horse farm that she inherited from her father who disappeared while doing business with a Russian oligarch in Georgia. Being a multi-millionaire, she has many suitors. Hugo Von Studtmeister descends from the Stud Masters that bred horses for Frederick the Great in Charlottenburg Berlin. Hugo teaches Amelia how to fence and shoot. She comes in second at the Olympics. Hugo is not happy. Hugo, is never happy. He pushes Amelia towards perfection.

Hugo is also not happy with fellow equestrian,  Arthur Guinness Wellington ‘The Pretender Duke’, who is Amelia’s piano teacher. Her sessions with him, alone, is the stuff  legends are made of. Countries have been invaded for reasons like this. Hugo walked out of their first duo piano concert – and stomped his boots in the hall. He forced himself to return, and watch how perfect they were……….together.

Taking out his kerchief, Hugo dabs at the blood that gathers on his lower lip. From up in the loge, the Countess of Lippenstein, via her opera glasses, has fallen in love. Hugo will be stalked. She has a thing for bloody Germans.

Amelia is invited to all the Royal weddings due to her direct lineage to Godfrey De Bullion. She has images of Humphry Bogart all over her bedroom wall, and an alleged photo of her in the arms of Lauren Bacall, when she was a baby, of course.

Arthur and Hugo do not get along. Hugo’s great-uncle was a famous Nazi General. Being honorable men, they have sworn an oath to help Amelia take revenge on the bastards who killed her father. Both men own blue ribbons for dressage. Amelia is famous for her dark moods. She has to catch herself from looking down on people while on her high horse, which Arthur encourages for he wants her hand in marriage. He needs her bloodline in order to capture his place in the Dutch peerage, for starters. But, Hugo’s dark foreboding nature reminds her of the love of her life, Humphry Bogart. She has fantasies of them getting revenge on the Russian Wolves.

“Take no prisoners! Doll.”

When ‘The Prince of Waterloo’ was born, everyone agreed is was the most beautiful black Frisian Horse ever seen. Because Arthur was there at the time, he suggested the name. The House of Windsor and Saxe-Coburg had taken an interest in their good breeding. There was this land deal that the Queen wanted kept in the family. As small as it is, it is on the Continent. Would she have to flee there one day? Feeling she had been duped, Amelia asked Hugo to employ his Prussian linage so as to achieve neutrality of ownership with The Prince, which caused him to get the full attention from just about everyone who mattered. Arthur and Hugo were 3rd cousins.

“All this……..over a horse?”

Some nights, Amelia can not sleep. Going to his stall, she puts a saddle on her black beauty. She puts their CD in, and turns up their music – full bore! The neighbors are awoken to the pounding of war drums. Amelia is in a deep trance. They are invading Russia, again! She has received death threats, and several earphones in the mail. But, it is not the same! The anguished screams, are of no avail.

“In God’s name – TURN THAT SHIT DOWN!:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Waterloo

The land held by the Prince of Waterloo has recently (2001) come under pressure from retired Belgian senator Jean-Emile Humblet.^[2] In 1817, the government in what is now Belgium struck a deal to pay the duke £1,600 a year in return for the proceeds of sales of timber which the duke wanted to clear from the forested land. Until 1988, successive dukes enjoyed this annual payment, but the then Prince of Waterloo, Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, agreed to forgo the payment in exchange for outright ownership of 60 acres (240,000 m²) of the 2,600 acres (10.5 km²) to which he has rights. But some Belgian taxpayers, led by Humblet, say the deal does not reflect the value of the land – which they say is part of Belgium’s national territory – use the debate to draw attention to the wider issues of the original agreement, contending that Belgium was effectively coerced into accepting the terms of the original agreement because it could not afford to offend Britain.

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Should the direct male line of succession from the first Duke of Wellington become extinct, the dukedom and its subsidiary titles in the British peerage will become extinct, as will the titles of Prince of Waterloo in the Dutch peerage and the dukedom of the Victory and its subsidiary titles in the Portuguese peerage. The dukedom of Ciudad Rodrigo in the Spanish peerage, together with its subsidiary titles, will continue to be held in the female line of descendants of the first Duke. The earldom and barony of Mornington, along with the viscountcy of Wellesley, which are all titles in the Irish peerage, will revert to the line of the Earl Cowley, a male-line descendant of a younger brother of the first Duke of Wellington.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Boxtel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Frederick_of_Prussia_(1911–1966) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Antonia,_Duchess_of_Wellington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Wellington_(title)