Huh, what's that perception of them being likely to form a coalition supported by? It makes sense, but that's using a lot of OOC information so I'm wondering what in universe thoughts are behind that.
So let's talk about royal camps...
First off, differentiating between camps and parties. Camps are not parties. There's no formal affiliation, membership, or meetings. Political camps in Britannia are
much more fluid and chaotic than their political parties, usually owing to sudden yet inevitable betrayals. Political parties usually identify your voting patterns, such as voting for the labour party or the conservative party or the merchantilist party. These are what kind of
policies you want to into place over a broad spectrum. Political camps are formed around successors to the throne and are about who in particular you want on the throne to put things into action.
As an example, things are
very weird right now for the labour party given that Schneizel is the Prime Minister and technically the leader of their party.
Labour tends to emphasize domestic policy and not have a uniform opinion on military/foreign policy beyond 'Britannia Stronk' soundbites. So while someone might
vote labour, they might favor Guinevere for the throne on the basis that Schneizel is too Euro-friendly from his time in the diplomatic service. Guinevere is on-record as being more of an 'Empire-first Isolationist,' FYI.
Which is one of the reasons that there's a general assumption that Cornelia and Schneizel might be working, not 'together,' but at the very least in parallel to each other.
Because, strangely, neither Schneizel nor Cornelia tend to contradict each other large political issues and, in fact, tend to let each other cover their weaknesses. Cornelia has a very impressive military record now and takes a position of military brinksmanship with the EU whenever something comes up. Schneizel never
rules out using big stick tactics, but never expressly endorses them either. More anecdotally, ti's an open secret Cornelia was infatuated with Schneizel when they were young and the second prince never explicitly turned down her advances. To this day, they're very cordial with each other to the point that the
lack of antagonism common between royal half-siblings (or even full siblings), makes a lot of people draw conclusions.
Actually getting either,
especially Schneizel, to go on-record about commitments to each other is, of course, very difficult. Mainly because a formal arrangement between the two would likely cause a counter-coalition to form reflexively.
As it is, Clovis and his younger sister are a camp of their own (having somewhat followed your example with Nunnally), Carine is on her own but generally believed to associate with Guinevere, Odysseus is on his own, and
you're publicly allied with Euphie. Castor & Pollux are there too in their own group... or, well, two groups that tend to intermingle. Which would make people nervous save for the fact that you're so close in the rankings and have a power base so far away from the homeland. Lelouch would be
generally aware that the feeling at court was that he was going to drag Euphie down rather than her raising
him up, especially given she's... not politically-mainstream, shall we say.
Actually, come to think of it, Lelouch and Euphemia come across as something of an off-brand Schneizel-Cornelia power couple, with a bunch of their political positions swapped between themselves. Which is funny in its own right.
