The problem is that I have a translated into Russian version of the game so I don't think the original patches will work with it since the cheatcodes don't. I'm afraid I'll have to put up with it the way it is. I'll just have to see to it that the king produces an heir as late as he turns forty. Which rings a bell! Are there any reliable ways to predict the king will have no male heirs when he has no children soon after marriage? I figured out that if two or three daughters are born at first, the son is unlikely to be produced. But how long is it safe enough to wait for an heir? Is the king likely to be childless for twenty of more years and then to have a son at the age of 52? Or is it better to dispose of the king after ??? years of fruitless waiting for the son and get his brother on the throne?