Knights of Honor II: Sovereign – Explanatory Guide to Royal Marriages

Royal Marriage Guide

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Royal marriages are a political strategy, just like how they really are historically. It can be a negative if you don’t strategise your royal marriage properly, but the other side it would be a huge boon for you if you strategise them correctly.

Here’s a few tips that I’ve learned after playing the first game for years and playing this new sequel for hours:

1. Marrying princesses are always at a disadvantage; you have to turn this to “your” advantage.
2. Always keep track of your King’s age, and the age of other king’s that have marriage offers.
3. When you marry your family, make sure you marry other kingdoms with Kings who are “older” than your king. This will make sure that they will die first before you do. Whoever outlives the other, they will have the claim or be protected from the claim of others.
4. If you have a prince married to a princess and her father died, you have a claim to get their province. If you decline, you will get a massive relation boost with them. If you claim the lands, it’s 50:50, either they accept or they don’t, if they accept, you get a free province, either way, your relationship will drop. So it’s up to you.
5. If you have a princess married to another foreign prince, make sure they’re “NOT” the heir. You can see the difference in their crown shape on who’s the heir and who’s not. If you marry the heir even when their king die, your princess will still be active as their queen, and almost always your king will die next compared to the other (unless you can marry an older prince than your own king to ensure they die first, but this is very unlikely). And when you die, since your daughter is their queen, they can claim your land instead. So if you marry your princess to a prince that’s NOT the heir, when their king dies and move on to the heir, chances are your princess don’t hold any position in the new court, so when your king dies, they have no claim. But you will still get the relationship boost for your marriage proposal, while still protecting your kingdom from being claimed when you die.
6. Worst case scenario, if you can’t find any foreign prince to marry your princess that fits a scenario that will benefit you, better to let them be an old maiden and protect yourself.

So it’s all about strategy, that’s what this game is all about, right? Grand strategy, you have to be strategic on who to marry, just like how the medieval kings do at the time for their princesses.