HRH King Frédéric I

HRH Prince Léopold Alexandre Patric Frédéric (b. 2786) is the Pretender to the Throne of Kanjor, a reserve Maître-principal of the Troupes de marine, as well as a prominent businessman with ties to the boards of the insurance giants L'Assurances Generales de Kanjor and La Mutuelle du Labonne Assurance; serving as a Kanjor-Rildanor liaison for the latter.

Early Life
HRH Crown Prince Léopold Alexandre Patric Frédéric de Villiers et Orléans-Vasser was born 2 November 2786 at the Orléans-Vasser family's Chateau de Fin du Nord in Sovalt, Kanjor. Shortly after his birth the Kanjorien branch of the family moved to Rildanor where the young Léopold spent his early years.

Despite his surroundings and his mother's affection for Rildanor Léopold was, and remains, strongly influenced by his patriotic father Capitaine Patric Frédéric de Villiers and developed a strong affinity for his native Kanjor; a land in which he visited briefly only once during his early childhood.

The young Léopold was extremely interested in the story of his great-great-grandfather, HRH King Léopold, and was subsequently guided by his father to learn from the mistakes of past monarchs, especially HRH King Albert III. Because of this interest and influence, Léopold proved to be a extremely self-confident, decisive and assertive as a child, often bordering upon arrogance, and proved to have a powerful stubborn streak. A visiting dignitary once observed that "the young Prince seemed filled with self-discipline and was utterly fearless in diving into any conversational topic" only to "defend arguments, as though they were an extension of himself, to the hilt regardless of whether he had the necessary knowledge to truly do so."

His mother and father returned to Kanjor when Léopold was ten years-old.

Education and Military Service
Like most of his family, Léopold was educated by a governess while very young but upon reaching the age of five he insisted on attending school in Kanjor and was subsequently sent to the Kanjorien branch's alma mater l'Académie Royale de l'Ilot de Tondola as a boarder; something the Royal Family had never done before. While attending the academy, Léopold was considered something of a troublemaker who would often attempt to disprove his teachers and was once believed to have been threatened with expulsion after threatening a staff member he disagreed with.

Patric Frédéric de Villiers, as Léopold later remember, did not approve of "my lack of discipline and disrespect towards authority" and "stayed on top of my actions" for the remainder of my educational cycles."

By his formative years, Léopold had toned down his behavior and instead channelled it towards rugby; making captain of a club squad in northern Sovalt. Léopold also joined the Military's sponsored Corps nationaux de cadet to prepare for future military service.

He achieved good but not exemplary marks in all subjects, passed his Brevet des cycles secondaire exams and pursued Séries générales for his Cycle avancée. He received a Baccalauréat général at the age of 18 and "marched right down to the Troupes de marine recruiting station" to enlist "expecting and receiving no help from my father". He served two years and achieved the petty officer rank of Maître-principal before mustering out and filing for reservist status.

Also, while in secondary school, Léopold began a serious relationship with Irène Brigitte Bastien-Provost, whose forceful will was able to keep Léopold in-check. Léopold's mother, HRH Crown Princess Marie Louise-Elisabeth was reported to have once said "besides his father, [Irène] Brigitte is the only person able to affirmatively counter the temperament of [Léopold] Alexandre."

University
After two years in the Troupes de marine Léopold enrolled in and was accepted to l'[[Institut de Willigan de Science économique] of the Université Impériale de Kanjo pursuing a degree in Business Management. It was at the Institut that he met and networked with