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... e worked as a civil servant in the western part of the empire, and she was also quite a capable administrator.

Although she didn’t get along with the parliament, keeping her distance from the central government, she was still a competent figure.

In that sense, Julia Fríden was indeed someone who fit the image of a ‘Fríden.’

Maintaining a distance from the central nobility was a long-standing tradition of the Fríden family.

It had been this way even before the empi ...

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