Dutch Empire becomes a great power

The start of the Spanish succession crisis

Spanish Empire pov

After the Brother's war I have expanded my colonial reach but the succession is in huge risk of an entire collapse. My economy and military are strong but a civil war could cause nations to intervene then make sure they can grow while weakening me at the exact same time. The options to succeed are the Dutch Prince of the Nassau family which is under a personal union...Heh the irony..or the Austrian Prince of the Hazburgs. I knew choosing the Austrian Prince would be preferable but the royal family is against it and desires the Dutch to rule us which the parlament has denied causing a tear in the relations of the royal family with their parlament. So the Princess had run off so I rushed to find her but realized that she had gone towards the mediterrianian which would make me smile if she wasn't going towards the Dutch Naples. I sent the navy to find her saying "She was kidnapped by Ottoman pirates." This caused the public of my nation to accuse the Ottomans of calling it a lie. This caused the Austrians to back my claim while the Prussians and Dutch backed the Ottomans in this crisis which I knew once she arrived at the Dutch Naples would discredit my nation internationally.

(Don't know if she was an adult at this time so pretend she is) 

Seraphina Clemente pov

I was on a ship with the loyal guards that guarded me. They were practically family to me as my family while famous for their expansion and economic growth did heavily lack in caring for their own family. Though I had to admit when I met both the Austrian Princess and the Dutch Princess alongside their siblings but the Dutch Princess showed more care for my health while even helping me with my share of the work in the Spanish Empire which was mainly where the colonization would expand a bit more. So despite this not being something legally allowed I planned on marrying her than her sibling who while nice did express his own lack of care for loving me and even secretly suggested I marry his sister when no one was listening. 

3rd Dutch Italian infantry battalion commander pov

We were guarding our share of Naples from the Spanish especially due to their rise of tensions with the Ottomans in the mediterrianian of their baseless acusation of kidnapping of their Princess. I knew this wasn't true since the Ottomans while Islamic had shown the Dutch a good friendship as while the fight for the spice trade was tense between the Ottomans and us aside from that we really had nothing to hate each other over aside from religion. I then noticed a ship heading towards our destination so I told one of my men to alert the coastal naval patrol while I had the rest of us aim our guns at the ship once it landed as we were not aware of any trade in the area occuring by sea. The ship landed then I walked to it with the other 6 nearby pointing their guns at the boat with caution all over their face worried about who is here and why they are here. The ship's doors opened to reveal....THE SPANISH PRINCESS AND HER GUARDS! I was in utter shock but it made sense when she explained her reasoning to me so I decided to have them stand down and we began to escort her to where the Princess is at the current time from my knowledge.