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Ellory I (Ellory Alexander William Theodore Victor Albert Louis; 8 October 1921 — 4 December 1996) was Emperor of the Cygnians from 8 April 1943 until his death. Ellory I is also known to be the first Cygnian Emperor to pay taxes to the Government.

Ellory I was the youngest son of Theodore IV, and was given his name for its connection to swans. As the youngest of five children, he was not expected to inherit the throne and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder siblings, especially his oldest brother, Alexander. He attended Swanstone Imperial Academy for the first years of his schooling years, until the age of twelve. Throughout his early life Ellory was known as a calm, intelligent and sensitive child who was constantly aware of his surroundings.

Prince Ellory was eleven years old when the Imperial Palace Massacre took place on 3 May 1933. A group of Imperial Army soldiers entered the Palace on a pretext and proceeded to shoot the Imperial Family, their aides, guards and maids. While everyone else in the Imperial Household was killed, Ellory himself was shot in the chest, though the bullet did not hit any vital organs. He managed to hold his breath and play dead for long enough to convince the assailants that he too had been murdered. When the soldiers left, Ellory quietly rose and, after a brief moment of grief, fled the premises. According to his biography, Emperor in Hiding, he obtained a disguise and a bus ticket and escaped to the countryside.

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Titles and honours

 * 8 October 1921 — 3 May 1933: His Imperial Highness The Prince Ellory of Cygnia
 * 10 May 1933 — 3 March 1943: Elliott William Kennedy, Esq.
 * 3 March 1943 — 8 April 1943: His Imperial Highness Prince Ellory Hamilton-Kennedy, Commander-in-Chief of the Cygnian Revolutionary Army, Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Committee
 * 8 April 1943 — 5 May 1946: His Imperial Highness Prince Ellory Hamilton-Kennedy, Supreme Commander of the Cygnian People's Army, President of the National Constituent Assembly, President of the National Reconstruction Committee
 * 5 May 1946 — 4 December 1996: His Imperial Majesty The Emperor

His full title was His Imperial Majesty Ellory the First, by the Grace of God, of the Cygnian People Emperor, Head of the House of Hamilton-Campbell-York-Lancaster, Defender of Faith On coins, where the Latin title was present, Domus Hamilton-Campbell-York-Lancaster Princeps was omitted to conserve space. Ellory I was the first Emperor to be known as "Defender of Faith" rather than "Defender of the Faith". He chose to remove "the" in 1975 to stress the equal importance of his non-Church of Cygnia subjects.
 * In Latin: Ellory I, Dei Gratia Cygniarum Imperator, Domus Hamilton-Campbell-York-Lancaster Princeps, Fidei Defensor