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| Assumed office 80 | |
| Preceded by | Roger III |
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| Succeeded by | Colin VII |
| Born | 47 |
| Died | 133 |
This article about a Sovereign Prince of Caledon is a stub. More material coming soon.
Simon Calhoun Douglass was the younger son of John III and Princess Adriane.
At birth, Simon was fourth in line to the throne, with every chance of dropping further had his older half-brothers and brother had children. There was little realistic expectation that he'd take the throne, ever.
So he went to the Royal University of Caledon, became a lawyer and joined a prominent trading house.
Then, as each of his half-brothers' and brother's reigns collapsed, he was called to the throne.
Simon was a capable but mediocre ruler - which, following Bruce II, Laurence and Roger III, was a step up. And as a businessman and lawyer, he had little patience for court intrigues, successfully mobilizing parliamentary support to quell their effects.
His greatest accomplishment, perhaps, was reconciling the various branches of Clan Douglass, who had been feuding for two centuries, bringing the Grand Duchy of Douglass back into the Principality (albeit as a semi-autonomous region with its own sub-parliament) - and, almost as important, given the feuding, bickering and battling going on among the petty royals, the almost equally-difficult task of ushering Clan Douglass away from center stage. He negotiated a complex deal, offering a variety of political and commercial stimuli to the various branches of the clan to turn the throne over to Colin MacArthur, president of his privy council.
He abdicated on 2-103, and spent the next thirty years writing books about the nature of power; many of these are regarded as classics of the Caledonian academy today.
During his rule, he never married; after his abdication, he married Preetha Gandhi, one of his personal secretaries. He had two children; one a successful scientist, the other a prominent humanities professor.