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Rémi Aldric

Sovereign Prince of Sorvaine for thirty years, and a good one — the principality was steadier and surer of itself when he left the throne than when he came to it, too young, at twenty-four. His four sons are each a piece of him: Julian's gravity, Lucien's books, Nicolas's drive, Felix's wit. He is, by the palace's account, in a period of reduced public duties. Those who love him know the fuller shape of it, and say nothing.

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Constance Aldric

Sovereign Princess of Sorvaine for thirty years — promised to the heir at sixteen, married at eighteen, and the still point the family has arranged itself around ever since. She reads every room before anyone in it knows it is being read. She holds the household together in the places the public never sees, loves her husband with a precision three decades have only sharpened, and knows what her eldest son wants before he will admit it. She says nothing until the moment it matters.

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Yvonne Aldric

Dowager Sovereign Princess of Sorvaine, eighties, and the family's great endurer. She married the heir at twenty-two, stood beside him for thirty years, and lost him without warning in 1996 — after which she left the palace for a house of her own two streets back from the Portarène harbor. She has outlived a husband and a son and carries both without ceremony. She appears when she is truly needed and not merely when she is expected, and she misses nothing.

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Rémi Aldric

Sovereign Prince of Sorvaine for thirty years, and a good one — the principality was steadier and surer of itself when he left the throne than when he came to it, too young, at twenty-four. His four sons are each a piece of him: Julian's gravity, Lucien's books, Nicolas's drive, Felix's wit. He is, by the palace's account, in a period of reduced public duties. Those who love him know the fuller shape of it, and say nothing.

Characters

Constance Aldric

Sovereign Princess of Sorvaine for thirty years — promised to the heir at sixteen, married at eighteen, and the still point the family has arranged itself around ever since. She reads every room before anyone in it knows it is being read. She holds the household together in the places the public never sees, loves her husband with a precision three decades have only sharpened, and knows what her eldest son wants before he will admit it. She says nothing until the moment it matters.

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Yvonne Aldric

Dowager Sovereign Princess of Sorvaine, eighties, and the family's great endurer. She married the heir at twenty-two, stood beside him for thirty years, and lost him without warning in 1996 — after which she left the palace for a house of her own two streets back from the Portarène harbor. She has outlived a husband and a son and carries both without ceremony. She appears when she is truly needed and not merely when she is expected, and she misses nothing.