Chapter Ninety-Five
The New York Times
Adrianna Kensington Weds
Heiress Adrianna Kensington and Tech Millionaire Mark Li married in a small private ceremony this week.
After what an inside source referred to as ‘a series of distressing and personal incidents’ Adrianna Kensington and her fiancé, Mark Li, decided against a lavish wedding and refused official photography.
The power couple elected to eschew a two-million-dollar sponsorship deal, to marry privately, on the Kensingtons’ family island, which will be sold to an undisclosed buyer next month.
The handful of family and friends in attendance praised the famous heiress for her dressed-down wedding, and practical approach to the latest wave of Kensington family traumas.
Sources close to the heiress claim she intends to step back from the nightclub business, and concentrate on technology business ventures.
Petra Morka Nudes Sell for Millions
Images of Petra Morka’s youthful indiscretions with an unnamed schoolgirl sold for $2.
2 million last night. This makes them the most expensive set ever sold at a photography auction.
The eight-figure sum was paid by the Saatchi Gallery, who described the pictures as beautiful and haunting.
They plan on showcasing them for a duration of eight months in an upcoming New York exhibition.
Designer Ophelia Mills-Herd is slated to curate the exhibition, having won recent acclaim for her kitsch and unsettling interior design projects.
During the heated bidding war, Max Sutton, editor of Titan Magazine, walked out in fury. He claimed to have been tricked into bidding by Morka, in order to inflate the bid. When asked about this tactic, in an interview, Morka was typically candid and unapologetic.
‘Titan Magazine has been exploiting women for years,’ she was quoted as saying, ‘why shouldn’t women get their own back?’
Elysium Island Sold to Medical Group
Elysium Island, famously known for louche parties and all-night clubs, has been sold, for an undisclosed sum, to a private buyer.
Elysium is due to be repurposed as a high-end luxury rehab, aimed to attract celebrities with addiction problems. The Kensingtons have refused to comment on whether the choice of buyer represents a kind of tribute to the late Silky Eversfield, who died of an overdose on the island.
The new owner, Dr. Lutz of The Clinic Group, plans to roll out a range of luxury centers around the globe, from its flagship facility in Seattle.
Bodies Found on Elysium
Mass graves have been found all over Elysium, the former party island of Leopold Kensington.
Producers have released the last ever episode of Wrongfully Accused, compiled from material gathered by host Simone Walters, before her brutal murder.
The feature-length show theorizes a dark history to Elysium, in which hundreds of women were secretly buried on the island, near a schoolhouse built with the explicit purpose of forcibly re-educating ‘fallen’ women.
Elsewhere, prison cells were uncovered and further graves.
In the 1950s, the island was part of a drive to turn out marriageable Catholic girls, with a programme of deprivation and penance.
The model of ‘Discipline, Self-Restraint, and God’ was to be the founding principle of the famous Kensington Manor School in New York, which boasts several generations of prestigious alumni.
Kensington Manor School to Close
After decades of educating schoolgirls in the famous Kensington ethos of Discipline, Self-Restraint, and Godliness, the prestigious New York boarding school will close its doors next week.
Founded by descendants of Lady Margaret Kensington, who opened the first Kensington Manor School on the Caribbean island of Elysium, the principles of indoctrinating girls with a firm religious education and hardy outlook have fallen out of favor in recent years.
Founding pupils had their hair shorn, and wore head coverings during their time at the school, but this practice was dropped in the New York iteration, with hygiene conditions improved.
The current headmistress, herself a former pupil, blames ‘soft’ parenting styles and use of cellphones to contact parents.
The school denies the decision to close is linked with accusations of negligence and abuse, which saw many wealthy families withdraw their girls.
A spokesperson from the public school system claims Kensington Manor School was a relic of female oppression, where women were groomed as marital commodities.
Georgia Kensington new CEO of Kensington Brand
Georgia Kensington, best known for spectacular PR campaigns, got a promotion this month, to become CEO of the Kensington brand.
She plans on working closely with supermodel Petra Morka to reimagine the famous nightclub empire. She assured fans that the door was open for Adrianna to return, but thinks it unlikely.
‘Adrianna likes a quiet life now,’ explains Georgia. ‘She probably always did.’