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Spare to the Throne

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Spare to the Throne	comment	Only one person can inherit a throne, that's obvious enough, but history books will occasionally reference kings and queens' desire to have at least two male heirs, an "heir and spare." The reasoning for this is simple. Back before modern medicine, child mortality was through the roof even for the ruling elite. Assuming a prince survived past the age of five, they could still catch a nasty illness, fall victim to a Hunting "Accident", or be slain in an overt coup. On top of this, medieval monarchs were often expected to be warriors, so the heir might be slain in battle, or even while training for battle. Anything could happen to the oldest child, hence the importance of having a figurative spare tire to keep the kingdom and royal line running. In fact, he could even avoid all of this, succeed to the throne, and then fail to produce any surviving heirs of his own, in which case it would be prudent for his parents to provide him with a brother. The thing is, despite any complexes being explicitly considered not as important as his older brother throughout his life might have given him, the spare isn't really expecting to inherit the throne. He may be brought up as a brave knight, skilled administrator, or member of the clergy, but he's not going to be trained to rule the same way as his older brother. So when the worst happens and the spare becomes heir, cue panicked cries of, "I wasn't prepared for this! I didn't ask for the throne!" But everyone expects the rightful heir to suddenly step in and do a bang-up job he hasn't been prepared to do, even while he still grieves for the loss of his older brother. The closest analogy to this would be the Falling into the Cockpit scenario in Humongous Mecha shows, just with less mecha and more monarchy. Note that it doesn't have to be an explicit "older brother dies, younger brother takes over" situation. Something may happen to the heir, forcing a regency. A bastard who never thought of taking the throne due to his illegitimacy may find himself the only one with the claim and the right to combat the Evil Uncle who assassinated his brother and nephews. It also doesn't count if the spare offed the heir to get to the throne, or even if they are eager to get onto it. They have to show signs of being a Reluctant Ruler who would really rather someone more prepared took over it. If both the heir and the actual throne-holder are lost at the same time, then the Spare ends up finding that he is in the big chair now. See also Heir Club for Men, where male-preference primogeniture drives kings to want as many male sons as possible as spares, and Hidden Backup Prince, where a heir to the throne is hidden away out of sight. A form of Unexpected Successor. Contrast Siblings Share the Throne, where two or, less commonly, more siblings are raised to share the rulership. Considering how this is frequently also The Reveal, expect unmarked SPOILERS!
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Spare to the Throne / int_1077f3ae	comment	In Triangle Strategy, Prince Roland of Glenbrook is initially this, as he's the younger brother of Crown Prince Frani. At the start of the game, he enjoys relative freedom to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. This changes after Aesfrost invades Glenbrook — Frani dies trying to protect Roland, and his father, King Regna, is executed just days later. As a result, Roland ascends to the throne and gets gradually worn down by The Chains of Commanding.
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Spare to the Throne / int_15ac5735	comment	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: Shuri is King T'Challa's much younger sister and never expected to rule, turning her attention to science and technology instead. However, when her brother dies of a sudden illness, and her regent mother follows barely a year later, she is unexpectedly thrust into the position of Queen.
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Spare to the Throne / int_16293427	comment	The Eyes of The Dragon uses this trope to drive the entire plot. The Evil Chancellor Flagg has the capable heir framed and imprisoned for regicide, so that he can use the unsteady spare as a puppet and effectively rule the kingdom himself.
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Spare to the Throne / int_16fc4335	comment	Heralds of Valdemar: The reasons and political maneuvering behind the various forms of Arranged Marriage among the nobility are a theme of Closer to Home. Male spares are given far more leeway in that matters of drinking, carousing, and whoring than firstborn sons, since the best they can typically hope for is to marry into a family with only daughters and become heir of someone else's estate, and there aren't many noble families without male heirs of their own. They also have to compete with older nobles looking for young wives to produce their own heirs, and wealthy merchants looking to marry up, so many young spares don't put much effort into the game.
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Spare to the Throne / int_1a8119af	comment	Dragon Quest VIII has a similar situation with King Argonia, an Unexpected Successor who had to step up after his elder brother disappeared while pursuing his lost love. While he has shaped up to be a good ruler, his own son is none other than Prince Charmles, causing his father no end of grief over how horrible he would be once it's time for him to hand down the crown. In the Golden Ending, he's presented with his brother's son at a rather awkward time for a family reunion, and it's heavily implied he cedes the right to rule after him to this new arrival, giving his own son the shaft.
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Spare to the Throne / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: Dragon Age: Origins has this in Alistair, who reveals early on that he is of royal blood... unfortunately, he's a bastard, so he wasn't raised to the task. Needless to say, he's not happy about the idea of becoming king after being trained for something completely different and being quite forcefully assured that his illegitimate status would prevent the question. Word of God confirms that he is the illegitimate child introduced in the tie-in novel The Calling, which further reveals that he's a Half-Human Hybrid, as his mother is an elf. Dragon Age II has Sebastian Vael, who is the spare to the spare as the youngest of three children. Initially he resented his brothers for this, but eventually he settled into life at the Chantry and was happy there. When his family gets slaughtered and Sebastian is suddenly the rightful ruler, he's not sure he wants to be prince anymore. Hawke can push him one way or another. In the end game, if Anders lives, Sebastian decides to take back his throne for real this time in order to exact vengeance. However, as the third game reveals, he takes the throne either way; he's just much friendlier if Anders is dead. The Player Character of Dragon Age: Inquisition, if human, is in a similar position to Sebastian. Trevelyan's exact number of siblings is never stated, but it is known that they are the youngest of at least three. The family tradition thus dictated that they would join the Chantry, most likely as a Templar presuming they didn't show magical abilities themselves. Unlike Sebastian, since Trevelyan is the PC, the player has dialogue options which can show that they have a good relationship with their parents, a strained one, or something in between. This trope also appears in the recent history of Orlais, as shown in an Inquisition codex entry. It was presumed that Emperor Judicael I's royal lineage would continue unhindered, as he was the father of twin boys. This was perfectly fine with Grand Duke Florian, his younger brother and spare, who never expected or wanted to rule; however, an outbreak of the Hundred Days' Cough killed both of Judicael's sons and also Florian's baby daughter. Judicael, grieving deeply, was thrown from his horse on a hunting expedition not long afterward, and Florian reluctantly became Emperor. This series of events paved the way for Judicael and Florian's niece, Celene, to eventually outmaneuver her cousin Gaspard for the throne, leading to the Orlesian civil war happening at the time of Inquisition.
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Spare to the Throne / int_1c25dba1	comment	Suikoden V has a non-royal example with the House of Barows. After his older brother Hiram was assassinated during the bloody Succession Conflict, Euram was thrust into the role of his father's heir, as well as dealing with his mother's extended BSOD. This stress of this helps shape him into the irritating Epic Failing Upper-Class Twit everyone has to deal with during the events of the game, until Character Development enables him to grow out of it.
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Spare to the Throne / int_210767ac	comment	Encouraged in Crusader Kings 2: if your current character dies without an heir, it's game over, but the time period is extremely capricious and deadly. If you put all your hopes into one heir, and that heir dies before taking the throne, you're done. But if you have several heirs, then you're safe even if a couple of them bite it. Of course, this almost inevitably results in a succession crisis every time your current ruler dies, but them's the breaks. There can be a number of problems with multiple sons though. Such as the various things one has to do to keep them all happy. And if you have gavelkind succession your titles are split up among your sons. While if you're a Muslim unlanded sons generate Decadence, and considering that Islamic rulers are expected to have multiple wives a lot of sons are expected. Such situations are practically guaranteed to produce a Succession Crisis.
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Spare to the Throne / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, it's eventually revealed that Sanaki is actually this trope; she had an older sister who was the true apostle and the rightful empress of Begnion, but said sister and their grandmother were assassinated by the Begnion Senate so they could frame the herons, leading to the Serenes Massacre. In a double subversion, said sister (Micaiah) turns out to have survived the assassination, but abdicates the Begnion throne to go rule Daein in the end. In Fire Emblem: Awakening, main protagonist Chrom is perfectly content to lead his wandering peacekeeping force, the Shepherds, while his older sister, Exalt Emmeryn, rules the country. Chrom loves and admires Emmeryn, and gives her nothing more than a token "This isn't what I would do" when he disagrees with her decisions, but nevertheless carries out her will. So when she catches a faceful of Plotline Death and he's suddenly in her place, he's devastated. In fact, his Kid from the Future makes her first attempt to Set Right What Once Went Wrong by preventing Emmeryn's assassination, and thus preventing Chrom from ever being Exalt. Unfortunately for Chrom, she still died, just in a different circumstance. (The player can later find out she survived with amnesia, but this is an optional mission and it does not change anything, practically speaking. Chrom is still Exalt because she can't be.) In Fire Emblem Fates: At the end of the Birthright route, Crown Prince Xander of Nohr is killed in battle and second-in-line Camilla abdicates, leaving Leo to take the Nohrian throne. At the end of the Conquest route, High Prince Ryoma of Hoshido and his second-in-line Takumi are killed in battle, leaving Hinoka to take the Hoshidan throne. At the end of Fire Emblem Heroes Book II, Surtr and his heir apparent Laegjarn are killed in battle, leaving his second daughter Laevatein to take the MÃºspell throne. Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Edelgard was born the ninth child of Adrestia's emperor and thus considered unlikely to inherit the throne. However, the deaths of all of her siblings leave her as the last remaining heir by the start of the game. Fire Emblem Engage: Alcryst is the second prince of Brodia, while his older brother Diamant receives far more attention within the game. This leaves Alcryst with a massive inferiority complex despite enjoying warm relationships with his father and brother. When Morion asks about the possibility of Diamant dying in battle and leaving him to take the throne, Alcryst is visibly distressed over this prospect, but firmly resolves he will not let it happen. Inverted with Princess CÃ©line of Firene, who explains in one of her supports that due to her older brother Alfred suffering from chronic illness during their childhood, she was trained as though she were the heir in case he died, only for him to eventually recover. If Alfred isn't S-Supported, he will die young in the epilogue, leaving CÃ©line to take the throne (unless she dies on Classic Mode).
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Spare to the Throne / int_219914e9	comment	The Queen's Thief: In The Queen of Attolia, the queens of both Attolia and Eddis are this; Attolia's brother died in a "riding accident", though it was suspected to be an assassination. Eddis' brothers died of illnesses, possibly the same one that killed her father.
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Spare to the Throne / int_2372359	comment	In The Belgariad, this is a part of Silk's backstory. Silk is the nephew of King Rhodar of Drasnia, and became promoted to heir after a disease, implied to be smallpox, took most of the rest of the family. Silk, having spent most of his life in the Intelligence Service (and most of that in deep cover as a traveling merchant), was horrified at the prospect, and was (along with the rest of Drasnia, one would assume) immensely relieved at the birth of his cousin, Crown Prince Kheva.
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Spare to the Throne / int_23b84765	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: More precisely Spare to the Stewardship of Gondor; Ruling Stewards are de facto Kings after the royal line of AnÃ¡rion had died out. Being the second son of Denethor, Faramir did not expect to inherit his father's title, but that's exactly what happened because his older brother Boromir had died, and Denethor committed suicide.
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Spare to the Throne / int_28340943	comment	In The Interdependency, anyone of the current Emperox's cousins or nephews/nieces can become the next Emperox. Until shortly before the start of the first novel, the Emperox's son was to be his successor. Then the guy had to die in a race. Instead of those same cousins/nephews/nieces, the Emperox, instead, chose his illegitimate daughter Cardenia as his successor, who wasn't even raised at the palace, much less groomed to be Emperox.
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Spare to the Throne / int_2bf58725	comment	I, Richard Plantagenet Series: Richard flees into exile with his recently deposed brother Edward IV, and Edward insists they travel separately since their brother George has committed treason and Edward does not yet have a son. This makes Richard, who had been the spare to the spare to the spare, the next in line to the throne. George committed the treason because his status as spare to the throne went to his head. Edward eventually has two sons, whom Richard declares illegitimate, but that spare Richard escapes Buckingham's attempt to murder him and Richard III sends him abroad.
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Spare to the Throne / int_2c01ad7c	comment	Ozorne in The Numair Chronicles was born with six heirs ahead of him, and the Emperor gave him the nickname "the leftover prince". He claims not to mind since it leaves him free to become a mage and pursue his own studies, but heirs to the crown keep ending up dead until he winds up second in line by the end of Tempests and Slaughter. Of course the whole thing is a prequel series to The Immortals where Emperor Ozorne is a major character, so it's a Foregone Conclusion that he's going to end up on the throne one way or another.
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Spare to the Throne / int_33379487	comment	One of the central conflicts in The King's Speech is King George VI's ascension to the throne when his older brother abdicates. He felt totally unprepared, largely due to a pretty serious stammer. Of course, this is Based on a True Story (see the real life section below).
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Spare to the Throne / int_390e5c71	comment	Shannara: From The Elfstones of Shannara, we get the elven prince Ander Elessedil, who's not in favor with his father and doesn't see any reason why he'd ever be king, never even considered the possibility. And then SURPRISE, his older brother is dead and father incapacitated. The writing made it fairly clear this was the direction things would go from fairly early in the story.
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Spare to the Throne / int_3a499752	comment	Chagum in Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit is the Emperor's second son, and Spare to the Throne. Unlike most examples he did apparently receive schooling because his older brother suffers from a Soap Opera Disease, and becomes the heir apparent after his brother succumbs to it halfway through the series. In either case, he is remarkably calm (although clearly not-too-pleased) about it.
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Spare to the Throne / int_3defe34c	comment	In the same book, hot-headed Prince Rabadash, the heir to the throne of Calormen, is given permission to raid nearby Archenland in pursuit of Queen Susan. His father the Tisroc discusses this trope with his advisor, commenting that he can afford to lose Rabadash and promote a more biddable "spare" in his place. Rabadash is captured, humiliated with a Forced Transformation by Aslan, and sent back to Calormen, where he inherits the throne and presides over a period of peace between Calormen and the northerly kingdoms.
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Spare to the Throne / int_3f01b5a4	comment	Though they aren't royalty, Jayden is essentially this to Lauren in Power Rangers Samurai. While she's in hiding, Jayden pretends to be the sole living heir to the title of Red Samurai Ranger, and with it the leadership responsibilities to the other Rangers. He doesn't really have an issue with being team leader as much as the fact that it's not rightfully his position. Lauren later demotes herself to spare when she realizes Jayden is better at leading the team than she was.
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Spare to the Throne / int_3f35c69c	comment	Deverry: Prince Galrion was the third of four princes. It's lampshaded that being the third of four sons is the most useless position to be in: the eldest is the heir; the second, the spare; the fourth, an extremely powerful Arranged Marriage tool. The third has no purpose, and is regarded as nothing by his father. As a result, Prince Galrion focused on magical study, something that incensed his father. The situation escalated into catastrophe, concluding with the King stripping his unfavourite son of all title, wealth and even his identity to rename him the "no-one" his father had always believed him to be. Thus was Prince Galrion destroyed and Nevyn born. Rhodry was spare to the Gwerbrethryn (essentially a duchy) of Aberwyn until his half-brother rose to the seat and failed to produce an heir. Yraen, who as the younger son of a younger son of a king, was even further down the line of succession, and became a mercenary.
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Spare to the Throne / int_40c8681	comment	Forest Kingdom: Book 1 (Blue Moon Rising) has Prince Rupert, the second-born. His father eventually sends him on a quest for the express purpose of having him get killed off so he won't cause a Succession Crisis (since it doesn't look like Prince Harald, whom their father sees as a worthier heir, is going anywhere anytime soon).
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Spare to the Throne / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: In Cold Days, it is revealed the Mantles of the Queens of Fae have a survival instinct. If their current host ends up permanently dead, which is hard considering they are immortal except under certain circumstances, the mantle will search out the next best candidate or return to the next closest Queen of that court assuming that Queen can hold both Mantles at the same moment. Queen Mab, always one to plan a contingency or three, ensures she has multiple spares for her daughter Lady Maeve. The nice thing, for Mab's sake, is the next person need not be related to Maeve by blood, just a person who has long contact with a fae, usually under some harsh training. The first spare is Maeve's twin sister Sarissa, who is still a changeling after 500 years, and more recently helped hero Harry Dresden survive Mab's physical therapy, which included at least one assassination attempt a day, but Maeve ends up ending this spare by killing the Summer Lady Lily, forcing the Summer Lady mantle to enter into Sarissa and bind her to the enemy court. Maeve doesn't recognize the second spare Mab set up, Molly Carpenter, apprentice to hero Harry Dresden, and for the past two years or so, had been trained by Harry's fairy godmother, who can be described as, "spooky, crazy death Sidhe lady". When Maeve tries to kill Harry and an ally of Harry's instinctively shoots Maeve, killing her, the mantle ends up in Molly.
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Spare to the Throne / int_468bebb0	comment	In Discworld, King Verence of Lancre was raised as a clown (part of the Fools' Guild) and didn't even realize he was an heirnote because, strictly speaking, he wasn't. At first, he exhibited signs of this trope, but later decides it's definitely better than being a Fool and turns out to be quite a good king:
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Spare to the Throne / int_4c075095	comment	A Day of Fallen Night Dumai, a godsinger (cleric) living in the shrine on Mount Ipeyda, is shocked to discover that she's the illigetimate daughter of Emperor Jorodu and he needs her in the court because he's lost his older children, while his youngest is sure to be dominated by the Evil Chancellor. She realizes in hindsight that while her mother wanted to keep her out of it, teaching a would-be cleric politics and foreign languages was insurance in case Jorodu ever discovered her. The Berethnet royal line of Inys consists entirely of women who bear a single daughter and no other child for their whole life, believed a blessing of Saint Galian. Glorian is rather hurt when she overhears her mother, Queen Sabran VI, talking about how she and King Bardholt tried for a second child anyway because Sabran wasn't sure Glorian would be up for the job.
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Spare to the Throne / int_4fb9c0c0	comment	In Beka Cooper, the only child of the monarchs, a four-year-old boy, is kidnapped. Before Beka and her team set off to try and find him, the queen pushes her upset aside for long enough to tell Beka that she'll start trying to concieve another child. She'd been so happy to lavish affection on her son that she hadn't wanted to have another baby and split her attention, but she sees now that that's a selfish attitude and she has to have enough children that losing one won't throw succession into doubt. Like Duke Roger two centuries later, there's an Evil Uncle to this prince, who was the heir before the prince was born.
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Spare to the Throne / int_58b600de	comment	Shows up several times in the World of the Five Gods series. In The Curse of Chalion, the much younger half-brother of the infertile and secretly ill king is brought to court by the king's Evil Chancellor to insure the succession. When the prince dies shortly after the king's condition takes a massive turn for the worse, the entire court instantly redirects its attention to the prince's marginally older sister. Later in the same novel, the death of the rebellious elder son of the Fox promotes Bergon from spare to the Heir of Ibra — and to the top of Iselle's short list of potential spouses. In The Hallowed Hunt, the eldest son of the hallowed King has recently died. Succession politics aren't central to the plot, but they are a crucial detail.
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Spare to the Throne / int_5999b1ec	comment	In the Xanth series, the Fourteenth Wave, or Nextwave Invasion, of 1061 results in EIGHT spares: King Trent's mind is trapped in the Gourd, where dreams are crafted. His chosen heir, Dor, succeeds him, but suffers the same fate. Eight additional kings take the throne in turn, all but one of whom are older than Dor (in fact, two are his parents, and one is his mother-in-law), before the one responsible for their conditions is killed and the last heir frees all of her predecessors.
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Spare to the Throne / int_5ce2f08b	comment	In Black Butler, the protagonist Ciel Phantomhive is revealed to be this to his older twin brother, the real Ciel Phantomhive.
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Spare to the Throne / int_5cf2cc92	comment	A second modern example: Prince George from The Palace. For most of the series, he shows no interest in ever being a monarch, and tells his older sister Eleanor that if their brother Richard dies, she can be queen. However, when Richard's legitimacy is challenged in Episode 8, making George's ascension an imminent possibility, he starts to think that it might not be such a bad deal. (Of course, being an immature Royal Brat, he would almost certainly fail spectacularly in that role.)
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Spare to the Throne / int_5d21fab8	comment	In Wolf Hall, Henry VIII has been reigning for over twenty years but still has some issues with this. When he has a nightmare about his brother Arthur, he feels as though his brother is rebuking him for taking his wife and unbalancing the kingdom through their failure to produce a male heir, and drags Thomas Cromwell across town in the middle of the night to ask his opinion. Cromwell's interpretation is rather that Arthur is encouraging Henry to be the best king he can, especially by throwing off the Catholic Church.
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Spare to the Throne / int_5fd1486e	comment	Deus Salve O Rei: When Prince Afonso of Montemor goes missing after being attacked by bandits, his younger brother Rodolfo becomes the unexpected heir, a job that he really doesn't want because he prefers the life of a rich knob enjoying all privileges without any responsibilities of a king.
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Spare to the Throne / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: At the age of eleven, Aral Vorkosigan watched as his mother and older brother were slain by a death squad sent by the mad emperor Yuri. While these events happened before the time of the books, they are of critical importance in the relationship between his father, Count Piotr Vorkosigan, and his son, Miles. His mother, Cordelia, was poisoned while pregnant, and the boy was considered lost by both Count Piotr and their doctors, who called for an abortion, with the intent of trying again for a healthy heir. Years later, while Miles was missing and action and presumed dead (which he technically was at one point, but not so dead as to be beyond the reach of modern medicine), his clone-brother Mark, who had been created in a plot to replace him and destroy the Imperium, had to face the concept that if Miles was truly lost ("dead and rotted", as Cordelia grimly puts it), he might have to take up his progenitor's place as heir to the Countship of the Vorkosigan District in the Council of Counts. At one point, Aral himself calls himself the "spare". Despite their rather extreme case of Sibling Rivalry, Mark wasn't all that disappointed when Miles extricated himself from the mess he found himself in after being patched up and made his way home. Barrayar has a really complicated political situation in regards to the throne. Aral's mother was a Princess of the royal family, giving him a claim to the throne of Barrayar if Salic law is ignored. Aral's own political capabilities and support among the military means he's first in line of around half a dozen claimants if something should happen to Gregor, and many readings of the family tree indicates he as a better right to the throne than Gregor. However, since Aral's son Miles is deformed and a mutant by Barrayaran standards, it would be unlikely for the Vorkosigans to take the throne even if Aral wanted the job. Another princess married into the Vorpatril family, who gave birth to Aral's cousin Padma. Padma had a son, Ivan, with Alys, a lady of the Vor. Ivan's high birth makes him another contender for the throne, and one character in Captain Vorpatril's Alliance states that if Gregor had died, the Vorkosigans would have supported Ivan for the throne.
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Spare to the Throne / int_6062ca75	comment	Torovico in the Firekeeper novels was the second son of the Healed One. He was training to be a dancer. When his elder brother died in a hunting accident, he ended up the next ruler of New Kelvin. He tries to do a good job, but he didn't take learning a few of the secrets reserved only for the Healed One and the primary heir well.
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Spare to the Throne / int_625f8f3	comment	Inverted in the anime/manga version of The Heroic Legend of Arslan, where it's strongly implied that Arslan was to be the intended "heir" in this scenario as they were revealed to be a commoner adopted into the royal family and made the public heir so Andragoras could placate the citizens about the royal bloodline and have time to woo Tahamine over the years and father a real heir with them. However, Arslan started proving themselves to be a competent ruler and recruiting several powerful and talented allies and Tahamine never opened their heart to Andragoras. It wasn't long before Andragoras became antagonistic towards Arslan because they never intended this commoner to be anything more than a public distraction until they could replace Arslan with their true heir.
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Spare to the Throne / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins has this in Alistair, who reveals early on that he is of royal blood... unfortunately, he's a bastard, so he wasn't raised to the task. Needless to say, he's not happy about the idea of becoming king after being trained for something completely different and being quite forcefully assured that his illegitimate status would prevent the question. Word of God confirms that he is the illegitimate child introduced in the tie-in novel The Calling, which further reveals that he's a Half-Human Hybrid, as his mother is an elf.
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Spare to the Throne / int_6365ff3a	comment	Appears twice in Dragon Quest V: Prince Harry's half-brother, Wilbur, never wanted to be king, but his mother orchestrates Harry's kidnapping, forcing Wilbur onto the throne so she can be Queen Dowager. When Harry returns ten years later, Wilbur is desperate to hand it over to him, and is completely stunned when Harry refuses. In Gotha, Albert only rose to the throne after his elder brother disappeared; though he has done a far better job than Wilbur, he's still a Reluctant Ruler who immediately tries to hand the reins over to the just-arrived heir, despite the fact that his newly rediscovered nephew has only just learned of his Secret Legacy and has had about zero training as a ruler.
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Spare to the Throne / int_645d2bd1	comment	In Warbreaker, the oldest princess was groomed from birth to become the God-Emperor's wife. The second oldest princess was the "spare", trained in case something happened to her sister. Their father sent the youngest princess instead.
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Spare to the Throne / int_64b51b44	comment	The Reluctant Illegitimate Heir variation occurs in King Ralph, twice. First, when all known members of the royal family are electrocuted in a photography accident, Ralph is discovered to be the son of an illegitimate child of a royal uncle. He's lived his whole life in the US, so he's hesitant to leave that behind. At the end Ralph realizes that the man who had been prepping him to rule was also an heir to the throne who didn't feel worthy to take the position, and who also at one point specifically referred to how much trouble being king was.
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Spare to the Throne / int_65ff9544	comment	In the documentary series Harry & Meghan, Harry's early life as spare to the throne is chronicled as is his escalating Sibling Rivalry with older brother William. However, it's clear that as an adult Harry had no desire to be the heir, and the series chronicles his new life in America, far away from royal protocols.
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Spare to the Throne / int_67ce5a04	comment	In Fire Emblem Fates: At the end of the Birthright route, Crown Prince Xander of Nohr is killed in battle and second-in-line Camilla abdicates, leaving Leo to take the Nohrian throne. At the end of the Conquest route, High Prince Ryoma of Hoshido and his second-in-line Takumi are killed in battle, leaving Hinoka to take the Hoshidan throne.
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Spare to the Throne / int_696b75c2	comment	The royal family in A Brother's Price all sort of rules as a unit (especially after the last time they tried to "split" the royal family as some large families do, two generations back, led to civil war). Nevertheless, the Eldest of their family, like any other family in this setting, holds particular authority. When nine of her older sisters are killed in a theater explosion, Princess Rennsellaer is thrust into the role of Eldest without having been raised to prepare for it. Some drama stems from the fact that some people â€” including Ren herself, for a while â€” thought her younger sister Halley might have been a better fit.
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Spare to the Throne / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Thor: Because Thor, the Allfather's eldest son, has been exiled to Midgard, Loki, as the second son, becomes the regent of Asgard after Odin becomes indisposed due to the Odinsleep. In the past, it's implied that Frigga once held the office of regent (Sif and the Warriors Three initially believe that they need to speak to the Queen about undoing Thor's banishment), but now that Loki has come of age, he inherits the position. This deleted scene makes it clearer: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: Shuri is King T'Challa's much younger sister and never expected to rule, turning her attention to science and technology instead. However, when her brother dies of a sudden illness, and her regent mother follows barely a year later, she is unexpectedly thrust into the position of Queen.
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Spare to the Throne / int_6c6852ca	comment	Yakuza 6; it's revealed near the end of the second act that Yuta Usami is the second son of Big Lo, the leader of the Saio Triad that has been muscling in on Kamurocho. Due to China's One Child policy, Yuta was born off record and smuggled to Japan as an insurance policy in case Lo's eldest son died, raised in ignorance of his heritage so he wouldn't get any ideas and start a Sucession Crisis. When he does learn this, he also learns he fathered a half-Japanese son that the Saio Triad has been attempting to murder, and isn't in any mood to take his role as heir.
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Spare to the Throne / int_7041cf12	comment	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: In spite of belonging to the Shinomiya family, Kaguya is not particularly held at high regard by them, as they consider her a mere accessory to the family's wishes. This further implies that Kaguya is not among the siblings that would immediately inherit part of the empire (given that she has three much older brothers, one of whom has a young son), but would have to fulfill the conditions to do so. The truth of the matter is rather different. Kaguya is actually an illegitimate child, and thus isn't allowed to inherit the company (though her father does admit on his deathbed that he was planning on leaving her with full control of a smaller company).
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Spare to the Throne / int_7318210e	comment	Dragalia Lost has the main protagonist, Euden, be the sparest heir in the Alberian royal family, being the seventh born child with his twin sister Zethia being the eighth.
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Spare to the Throne / int_73eb4b7e	comment	In Reflections on the River, Prince Shun was adopted essentially for that purpose. The king and queen weren't sure that they'd ever be able to have children of their own, so arranged to adopt a prince from an allied kingdom â€” but now they do have their own child, and Shun became the backup. He doesn't hold any grudges against the new heir, but he does feel useless and unappreciated, as he's not allowed to ever do anything useful â€” he just has to hang around in idleness until they're sure he won't be needed.
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Spare to the Throne / int_79ab0b3c	comment	Tortall Universe: Ozorne in The Numair Chronicles was born with six heirs ahead of him, and the Emperor gave him the nickname "the leftover prince". He claims not to mind since it leaves him free to become a mage and pursue his own studies, but heirs to the crown keep ending up dead until he winds up second in line by the end of Tempests and Slaughter. Of course the whole thing is a prequel series to The Immortals where Emperor Ozorne is a major character, so it's a Foregone Conclusion that he's going to end up on the throne one way or another. Duke Roger in Song of the Lioness is the younger brother of King Roald, who only has the one child. If Prince Jonathan dies, he's once again the heir, and he's certainly at the edges of a lot of things that nearly kill the prince. Alanna is frustrated beyond words by how Obviously Evil he is, and yet anyone with power waves her suspicions away because he's been magically hoodwinking them. In Beka Cooper, the only child of the monarchs, a four-year-old boy, is kidnapped. Before Beka and her team set off to try and find him, the queen pushes her upset aside for long enough to tell Beka that she'll start trying to concieve another child. She'd been so happy to lavish affection on her son that she hadn't wanted to have another baby and split her attention, but she sees now that that's a selfish attitude and she has to have enough children that losing one won't throw succession into doubt. Like Duke Roger two centuries later, there's an Evil Uncle to this prince, who was the heir before the prince was born.
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Spare to the Throne / int_7a264be9	comment	Chell in Masks of Aygrima is the ninth and youngest child of the king of Korellia, meaning he's last in line and is the least important.
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Spare to the Throne / int_7ac9ac71	comment	Alexis Carew: Queen Annalise of New London inherited the throne unexpectedly at fifteen after her parents and older brother were killed in an avalanche (she survived due to being cooped up in their skiing cabin with a bad head cold).
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Spare to the Throne / int_7ad168ca	comment	Skeleton Warriors: When Grimskull's pre-Heel-Face Turn crime becomes publicly known, the people of Luminicity want him to be executed for this and the only way his brother can spare him without having to face a revolt is by being executed in his place. With Lightstar dead and Grimskull still being labeled a traitor, their sister will be the next in line to become the ruler of Luminicity regardless of the fact she never received any training for this. Fortunately, Grimskull earns forgiveness on time to prevent any executions from happening.
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Spare to the Throne / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	This comes into play in Frozen: Hans mentions wistfully that he has twelve older brothers, and seems to have a bit of a complex about it. Since he'll never inherit his homeland, he wants to take over Arendelle instead. There were plans to explore this in-depth with Anna, with her introductory song in an earlier draft being one called "More Than Just the Spare", but most of it was cut. The song had Anna lament feeling ignored and useless, hoping one day to find her own place in the community and be helpful. In the movie proper, she still makes comments suggesting she sees Elsa as superior, such as when she earnestly reassures Hans not to worry too much about accidentally hitting her, the Princess of Arendelle, with his horse, because she's "not that princess" and it's not as big a deal to hit her as it would have been to hit her sister, "It's just me." This is exploited by Hans, who takes advantage of her low self-esteem to manipulate her into trusting him. When Elsa became queen, she gets bumped up to heir apparent, and soon finds herself needing to deal with the chaos that ensues when Elsa flees Arendelle, while retaining the inferiority complex associated with this trope. Rather than try to keep the power for herself, she promptly sets off in a blizzard to find Elsa and offer her help.
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Spare to the Throne / int_8022008b	comment	In Red River (1995), Prince Kail Mursili has a number of older brothers and half-brothers who have claim to the throne before him. Just about everyone, those brothers included, agree that Kail is best-suited to rule, though. Nakia, meanwhile, is desperate for her own son Judah to take the throne. Given that her boy is the youngest of the princes, this means she has a lot of scheming to do to get the others out of the way, even when the poor boy has quite the Big Brother Worship towards Kail and does not want to rule. By the end of the series, all of Kail's older brothers are dead (including the one who succeeded their father, who appointed Kail as his successor since he didn't have kids) and Prince Judah permanently renounces his claim to the throne after also calling out his mother on her evil deeds. By that point, it wasn't a question of whether or not Kail expected to rule so much as when he would actually be taking the throne.
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Spare to the Throne / int_841e72e9	comment	A Man of Iron: Antony Stark is very much low in the line of succession to Winterfell, being Ned's cousin and as such behind Ned's three sons, but Tywin still daydreams about having the more friendly - to him - Stark as Warden of the North. After being legitimized, Jon Snow becomes this since he's even more closely related to Ned and Tywin thinks he would be even more biddable.
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Spare to the Throne / int_88e691e3	comment	Frozen: This comes into play in Frozen: Hans mentions wistfully that he has twelve older brothers, and seems to have a bit of a complex about it. Since he'll never inherit his homeland, he wants to take over Arendelle instead. There were plans to explore this in-depth with Anna, with her introductory song in an earlier draft being one called "More Than Just the Spare", but most of it was cut. The song had Anna lament feeling ignored and useless, hoping one day to find her own place in the community and be helpful. In the movie proper, she still makes comments suggesting she sees Elsa as superior, such as when she earnestly reassures Hans not to worry too much about accidentally hitting her, the Princess of Arendelle, with his horse, because she's "not that princess" and it's not as big a deal to hit her as it would have been to hit her sister, "It's just me." This is exploited by Hans, who takes advantage of her low self-esteem to manipulate her into trusting him. When Elsa became queen, she gets bumped up to heir apparent, and soon finds herself needing to deal with the chaos that ensues when Elsa flees Arendelle, while retaining the inferiority complex associated with this trope. Rather than try to keep the power for herself, she promptly sets off in a blizzard to find Elsa and offer her help. This is explored more in the sequel, Frozen II. Like in the first movie, Anna spends most of the movie assuming the role of supporting her older sister, but when Elsa suffers a Disney Death, Anna finds herself in charge in the middle of an international crisis while grieving for the loss of the last of her family. She has to talk herself into finding her own direction independent of her sister during "The Next Right Thing," musing on how she'd always lived for her sister and asking "How to rise from the floor when it's not you I'm rising for?" Elsa comes back to life, but steps down as Queen of Arendelle and moves away, and Anna is crowned as her successor.
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Spare to the Throne / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos: Queen Kasile has a number of blood relatives living incognito within Ataidar in case she dies. They're so secret that not even she knows who or where they are. Fiol, Kasile's ancestor, offhandedly mentions "Laura the Hermit" and Sister Cremia is heavily implied to be one as well. The latter of these much prefers her current job to ruling.
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Spare to the Throne / int_8dba7131	comment	Duke Roger in Song of the Lioness is the younger brother of King Roald, who only has the one child. If Prince Jonathan dies, he's once again the heir, and he's certainly at the edges of a lot of things that nearly kill the prince. Alanna is frustrated beyond words by how Obviously Evil he is, and yet anyone with power waves her suspicions away because he's been magically hoodwinking them.
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Spare to the Throne / int_90f94684	comment	Fire Emblem Engage: Alcryst is the second prince of Brodia, while his older brother Diamant receives far more attention within the game. This leaves Alcryst with a massive inferiority complex despite enjoying warm relationships with his father and brother. When Morion asks about the possibility of Diamant dying in battle and leaving him to take the throne, Alcryst is visibly distressed over this prospect, but firmly resolves he will not let it happen. Inverted with Princess CÃ©line of Firene, who explains in one of her supports that due to her older brother Alfred suffering from chronic illness during their childhood, she was trained as though she were the heir in case he died, only for him to eventually recover. If Alfred isn't S-Supported, he will die young in the epilogue, leaving CÃ©line to take the throne (unless she dies on Classic Mode).
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Spare to the Throne / int_915885e3	comment	Alec from The Bride of Adarshan, as an illegitimate prince born of a mistress, was brought to the palace for this reason when the proper prince (now king) fell extremely ill. He's internalized it so much that he sees himself as nothing but his brother's shadow. That said, he has no desire to be king, as he's not suited for it, despite some people worrying that he's going to usurp the throne. Tragically, his mentor and Parental Substitute falls under that category, and tries to kill him for it.
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Spare to the Throne / int_9264f35d	comment	The Goblin Emperor: Maia is the fourth in line, born to the king's goblin wife and exiled from the court since he was a newborn due to his father's hatred of his mother, with the political circumstances being the only reason he wasn't disinherited outright. Then his father and his three older half-brothers die in an airship accident, and Maia is forced to take up the throne despite having no experience with the court or ruling.
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Spare to the Throne / int_93e41cc7	comment	Cinderella (Lloyd Webber): Prince Sebastian's older brother Prince Charming is gone, meaning Sebastian was shoved into the position of heir.
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Spare to the Throne / int_959e314b	comment	At the end of Fire Emblem Heroes Book II, Surtr and his heir apparent Laegjarn are killed in battle, leaving his second daughter Laevatein to take the MÃºspell throne.
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Spare to the Throne / int_977c980a	comment	In Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms - The Fairy Godmother, the heroine's eventual love interest is the second son of a king. His older and younger brothers both become kings, leaving him to decide what he's going to do with his life if he doesn't want to hang around and be decorative. He even calls himself "the spare" at one point.
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Spare to the Throne / int_9ba3174f	comment	Crown Prince Alaric in The Quest of the Unaligned has this reaction when he first discovers his true heritage, but regains his balance and learns to be a prince fairly quickly.
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Spare to the Throne / int_9c7c2889	comment	In Blandings Castle, it's sometimes mentioned that the Earl of Emsworth would find Freddie annoying in principle, since he's a younger son and thus not really needed as an heir. Freddy's personality certainly doesn't help matters (though the firstborn, George, isn't much smarter).
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Spare to the Throne / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: From the series' backstory is Rislav the Righteous, detailed in the in-game book Rislav the Righteous. The titular Rislav was the fourth son in line to the Kingdom of Skingrad. His older brother, Dorald, was another spare who was allowed to follow his dream to become a priest of the Alessian Order, a radical religious movement sweeping the Empire at the time. When Rislav was 30, a plague swept through Cyrodiil and decimated the royal family of Skingrad. Only Rislav and Dorald survived. The throne fell to Dorald, who immediately ceded the kingdom to the Alessian Empire. Incensed, Rislav gathered a band of cavalry, rode for Skingrad, was allowed in without conflict by the city guards (who were equally upset at Dorald's actions), and beheaded Dorald. Rislav was quickly named King of Skingrad. However, Emperor Goreous (a fervent supporter of the Alessian Order) did not recognize Rislav and did not revoke Dorald's action. He rode with an army to Skingrad but was defeated by Rislav and his Colovian troops. It marked the beginning of the end of the Alessian Empire and the Alessian Order. Martin Septim was a spare crossing over with Hidden Backup Prince. The bastard son of Emperor Uriel Septim VII, he was ferried away to a farm couple and later became a priest of Akatosh. When the Mythic Dawn assassinated Uriel VII and his legitimate heirs to kick off the Oblivion Crisis, Martin's actual parentage was revealed to him and his actions to end the crisis saved all of Tamriel.
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Spare to the Throne / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Pops up all over the place in A Song of Ice and Fire due to a messy and protracted multiway civil war with a high casualty rate. Before the main story begins, Ned Stark was this to his brother Brandon, and Maester Aemon was offered this but abdicated in favor of his younger brother (who was called "Aegon the Unlikely" for how far down the line of succession they had to go to finally find someone to take the jobnote He was the fourth son of a fourth son, and was favoured over his infant (and unfortunately named) nephew Maegor). Renly and Stannis vie for this after the death of older brother Robert, Stannis playing it slightly more straight (reluctant but insistent) while Renly leaps at the chance. Tommen is this to older brother Joffrey. Daenerys is this to her brother Viserys, and in A Dance With Dragons it is revealed that Rhaegar Targaryen's son Aegon is alive after all (if he's genuine), making Daenerys this to him as well. Depending on how things go, either Bran, Rickon, or Jon is likely to become this to Robb. There are probably dozens of other minor examples in the background. Dany would also be a spare if it is revealed that Aegon is fake but Jon was in fact a legitimate son of Rhaegar (with Lyanna Stark). If Aegon is real or is never proved he's fake, Jon would be the spare and Dany would go further down the line In the Dunk and Egg novellas, Egg is Prince Aegon Targaryen, fourth son of Prince Maekar Targaryen, who is in turn the fourth son of King Daeron II Targaryen. He was so far down the line, no one expected him to be king, and so he was allowed to wander Westeros as the squire of a hedge knight. However, almost everyone ahead of him in line ended up dying of illnesses, wars, and unfortunate incidents. He ended up being elected by a council of lords and became King Aegon V, better known as Aegon the Unlikely.
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Spare to the Throne / int_9d4943d5	comment	Shadow and Rose, being a retelling of Dragon Age: Origins, has this going on with its narrator.
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Spare to the Throne / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: As a flashback shows, Sabo's parents adopted Stelly, a noble child of even higher status than him, as Sabo kept running away to see Ace and Luffy, among other "lower-class trash" in their eyes. The parents expected Sabo and Stelly to get along, but since the latter was a dick like the other nobles, and only Sabo was kind, it didn't turn out too well. Sabo was shot by a World Noble and presumed dead, ended up with amnesia and was taken in by Dragon's Revolutionaries... while Stelly grew up to be the king of Goa Kingdom.
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Spare to the Throne / int_9fc6d946	comment	Fire & Blood: King Jaehaerys and Queen Alysanne had nine kids. Everyone figured things were safe so long as their oldest son Aemon and his brother Baelon were around. Then Aemon caught a sudden, fatal case of accidental arrow to the neck, and Baelon died of a burst stomach, throwing the whole question of succession into chaos. (The next oldest son was seen by all as a total no-hoper.) Speculated as being the reason Princess Saera turned out the way she did, since she was the ninth-born child and a girl, and therefore had no hope of ever getting to the throne.
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Spare to the Throne / int_a6084750	comment	The Crown (2016): The historical example of George VI is very important to Season 1. George VI was George V's second son, and he had not expected to inherit the throne. The series does a good job of showing George VI's perspective on events: he had set himself up as an ordinary-if-unusually-comfortable naval officer with a happy marriage and two daughters living in an ordinary (for the neighbourhood)-if-unusually-comfortable townhome in Piccadilly. Then his brother decided marrying an American divorcÃ©e was more important than his duties and abdicated, leaving the newly-minted George VI with a crown he never wanted and wasn't entirely sure he could handle. Then he not only has to be King, he has to be King during World War II. No wonder the man smoked so much that he died of lung cancer at 56. His daughter, the newly-minted Elizabeth II, shares George's opinion, never really wanting to be Queen (or at least, wishing she could have raised her children before becoming Queen) and forces her uncle to realise that his abdication had hurt her, as well.
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Spare to the Throne / int_a9d9d1f1	comment	The Rose of Versailles: Louis Charles, Louis XVI's second male child, who finds himself the Dauphin of France when his older brother Louis Joseph dies. In a variant, both Joseph and Charles were still children when this happens (they were respectively seven and four), and it was diagnosed a few years early anyway. Louis Charles never gets to reign anyway, as The French Revolution abolishes the monarchy, but Marie-Antoinette proclaims him king Louis XVII the moment after his father's execution. The king's brothers, the Counts of Provence and Artois, and the Duke of Normandy also hoped to invoke this trope in their favor. The Count of Provence then returns in the sequel Eikou no Napoleon-Eroica, calling himself King Louis XVIII after his nephew's death during prisony. While he considers himself as king of France since the moment of his nephew's death in 1795, he doesn't get to actually reign until Napoleon's defeat in 1814-and then is back on the run when Napoleon comes back, at least until his final defeat at Waterloo. Also from the sequel we have Alexander I of Russia — who makes sure it doesn't happen: while his grandmother, Catherine the Great, planned to skip his father Paul and have him succeed her directly, she had a stroke and died just as she was about to put it in writing and make it official, and Alexander hid himself until Paul arrived, at which point he was the first to salute him as the new tsar.
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Spare to the Throne / int_aa4ce711	comment	Bridgerton has a peerage version. As Anthony points out, he can afford to slack on wife-choosing and heir-siring because he has three brothers who can inherit the title of Viscount Bridgerton. Second son Benedict is feeling a little lost and turns to art, so he's a little taken aback when Anthony challenges Simon to a duel, because Anthony will either die or be forced to flee the country, meaning Benedict will have to step up to the plate.
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Spare to the Throne / int_acc21225	comment	The second Deathstalker series begins when the highly popular and well-prepared heir to the throne is killed by a drunk driver. His younger brother, who had expected to live a relatively simple life as a Paragon, finds himself thrust onto the throne.
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Spare to the Throne / int_ace263fa	comment	Pops up in the first Deltora Quest Sequel Series. The king has a beautiful, well-educated Toran woman brought to the capital, and court gossip claims that he plans to marry her. In reality, he has realized that the royal family's Single Line of Descent (which was, in fact, engineered by the Shadow Lord's servants to make them easier to kill off) could easily result in disaster for the kingdom if he were to be killed before having a child, leaving nobody capable of using the magical Belt of Deltora to keep the Shadow Lord from invading, and has tracked down a distant cousin to be his heir.
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Spare to the Throne / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: After his brother's death at his own wedding reception, Tommen is next in the line of succession. His grandfather Tywin wastes no time in beginning his training. He's even betrothed to Joffrey's widow afterwards. Viserys Targaryen was this in his childhood since Rhaegar was supposed to become king. Then came the Rebellion, Rhaegar and his son died, and Viserys thought to be the legitimate king. But as Rhaegar had the time to marry Lyanna Stark, that means Jon Snow is actually born legitimate and the ultimate irony of Viserys's life is that he has never been the true rightful king to begin with. Another version of this happens when Heroic Bastard Jon Snow takes Winterfell back from the Boltons. Since as far as anyone knows, he is the last living son of Ned Stark, he is crowned King in the North. In actuality, Bran is still alive and Jon is actually Ned's nephew from his sister Lyanna Stark.
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Spare to the Throne / int_b370ddd1	comment	Thor: Because Thor, the Allfather's eldest son, has been exiled to Midgard, Loki, as the second son, becomes the regent of Asgard after Odin becomes indisposed due to the Odinsleep. In the past, it's implied that Frigga once held the office of regent (Sif and the Warriors Three initially believe that they need to speak to the Queen about undoing Thor's banishment), but now that Loki has come of age, he inherits the position. This deleted scene makes it clearer:
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Spare to the Throne / int_b7b5e290	comment	A partial list from the Deryni works: Sickly King Alroy Haldane is succeeded by his younger twin Javan, who is turn succeeded by the still younger Rhys Michael. King Donal Haldane has four sons (Brion, Blaine, Nigel and Jatham), but only two (Brion and Nigel) outlive him. Nigel is Heir Presumptive to the throne for nearly half his life, and while he'll do his duty and rule if it comes to that, he doesn't want the job. In Torenth, Liam succeeds his elder brother Alroy after his riding accident, though he accepts out of duty rather than desire. Liam has a younger brother named Ronal-Rurik.
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Spare to the Throne / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: King Viserys Targaryen tells his daughter Rhaenyra he needs to have more kids. He reassures her that she is the heir, not to be replaced; he merely wants another kid as backup, because having only one heir is precarious â€” especially when his current backup heir is Daemon. Given that Rhaenyra actually dared Daemon to kill her in this very episode (even if she was confident he wouldn't), he arguably has an unassailable point. Though that decision to make more children ends up causing a Succession Crisis and Civil War in the end. One of the aforementioned children, Aemond, resents his older brother Aegon becoming king (though not of Aegon's own volition), for Aegon is ill-suited to be king while Aemond would be a better choice.
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Spare to the Throne / int_cacc7427	comment	Late in the first season of Galavant, it turns out that Richard was the geeky second son and that his parents wanted his older brother Kingsley to inherit the throne. But Kingsley didn't want to be "given" anything, or so he said, and left to terrorize the countryside for thirty years before coming back to take Richard's kingdoms from him.
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Spare to the Throne / int_cb32d0d5	comment	Disenchantment: Zog was actually second in line to become king and never expected, nor desired, to get the title, but was forced to take it anyway when his older brother unexpectedly died. It's the main reason he is so bad at being a king, and he is well aware of it.
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Spare to the Throne / int_cb339e98	comment	The Horse and His Boy: Inverted: it turns out Shasta is actually one of twin princes of Archenland, kidnapped as a babe. It turns out he's older than Corin, who is delighted that he won't ever be stuck with boring royal duties now (and threatens to punch Shasta if he tries to renege on his duties). In the same book, hot-headed Prince Rabadash, the heir to the throne of Calormen, is given permission to raid nearby Archenland in pursuit of Queen Susan. His father the Tisroc discusses this trope with his advisor, commenting that he can afford to lose Rabadash and promote a more biddable "spare" in his place. Rabadash is captured, humiliated with a Forced Transformation by Aslan, and sent back to Calormen, where he inherits the throne and presides over a period of peace between Calormen and the northerly kingdoms.
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Spare to the Throne / int_ce60df80	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy (2020): The origin of the Prince of Power. His brother was created to be the very epitome of the heroic ideal, actually born gleaming with heroic might. However, in the process the machine also created a spare, which immediately turned out to be astoundingly ordinary (their mother says an evil twin would've been something). So Prince Muscular becomes a great hero, and his brother Otherone becomes an office drone. Until he finds and, er, eats the Power Stone.
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Spare to the Throne / int_cf840e53	comment	In the Dunk and Egg novellas, Egg is Prince Aegon Targaryen, fourth son of Prince Maekar Targaryen, who is in turn the fourth son of King Daeron II Targaryen. He was so far down the line, no one expected him to be king, and so he was allowed to wander Westeros as the squire of a hedge knight. However, almost everyone ahead of him in line ended up dying of illnesses, wars, and unfortunate incidents. He ended up being elected by a council of lords and became King Aegon V, better known as Aegon the Unlikely.
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Spare to the Throne / int_d109f322	comment	Andromeda: In "The Prince", Dylan and Tyr find themselves co-regents to Prince Erik of Ne'Holland, the only survivor of a Ruling Family Massacre. Notably, Erik is doubly the spare in that he was his father's third son, who was never expected to be king, and had never trained for it as his older brothers had. As a result, in addition to helping Erik reclaim his throne from the ruthless group of barons who had killed his family and put an end to the civil war on his planet, Dylan and Tyr must provide the young heir with a crash course in politics, Tyr's Nietzschean cynicism contrasting against Dylan's more idealistic approach. After Erik is crowned, he decides to make Ne'Holland a democracy.
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Spare to the Throne / int_d3343e2f	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader starts with the player character having been so recently brought on board the von Valancius flagship to serve as a a spare to the position of heir to the Rogue Trader that you haven't actually been briefed yet (the plan is that you'll serve as an advisor and close aide, and if nothing happens to the designated heir you'll continue to do so for them when/if they become Rogue Trader). By the time the prologue is over, both the Rogue Trader and all other known possible heirs are dead or unsuitable by way of treason and Chaotic heresy, leaving you as the new Rogue Trader.
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Spare to the Throne / int_d616724d	comment	Pops up a few times in League of Legends. Azir was the youngest of all his siblings, and was completely ignored by his father as a result. Then all of his brothers were assassinated, and Azir soon found himself Emperor of Shurima after his father's death. A quite beloved and famed Emperor on that. Just a hop from Shurima is Ixtal, and their royal line. The spare of spares being Qiyana, the youngest of 10 sisters. Qiyana is well aware of her minute chances of being ruler, and as such has been scheming past, plotting behind and outright crippling her siblings to make sure she inherits the throne. The Ruined King, AKA Viego, was the back-up plan for the ancient, long forgotten kingdom he hailed from. He ascended to the throne after his older brother died, and quickly ran the kingdom into the ground.
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Spare to the Throne / int_d78e771e	comment	The Mote in God's Eye: Commander Roderick Blaine was the second oldest son in a noble family, who wanted nothing more than a Navy career and the chance to become Grand Admiral someday. His older brother George was in line to inherit the estates and title when their father retired but was killed in battle, leaving Rod as the heir.
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Spare to the Throne / int_da89c5dd	comment	Props up a lot in the Mahabharata First, Dashraj the fisherman refuses to allow King Shantanu to marry his daughter Satyavati because he doesnâ€™t want his grandchildren to become the spares to Crown Prince Devavrat. Devavrat abdicates his position as Crown Prince and even takes a vow of celibacy to ensure that neither he nor his descendants can even make a claim for the throne. This decision bites the kingdom in the ass hard, when both of Satyavatiâ€™s sons with Shantanu are unceremoniously killed off before they can even sire heirs, leaving the kingdom bereft of both a ruler and an heir. Devavrat, who is still alive refuses to take the throne because he took an oath. This forces Satyavati to call on Vyasa, her illegitimate son to stop his meditation and sire children with the young princesses. Vyasaâ€™s eldest son Dhritharashtra is born blind and is therefore judged unfit to rule. The kingdom passes to Pandu, but Dhritharashtra seethes in resentment at having â€œwhat is hisâ€� taken away. However, Pandu is banished to the forest as punishment for manslaughter and the crown reverts to Dhritharashtra. Finally, an Epic Battle ensues between Dhritharashtraâ€™s eldest son Duryodhan and Panduâ€™s eldest son Yudhistir for the kingdom. Yudhistir is declared presumptive Crown Prince, but Duryodhan hatches a plot to murder him. This causes Yudhistir to go into hiding, but allowing Duryodhan to become Crown Prince. When the plot is exposed, the kingdom is split up between them, then Yudhistir gambles his entire kingdom away in a dice game. This eventually forces both sides into open warfare.
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Spare to the Throne / int_dbbf2001	comment	In the Prince Roger series by David Weber and John Ringo, Prince Roger is the Heir Tertiary to the throne of the Empire of Man (third in line, after his older brother and sister); nobody, including his own family, can decide whether he's an Upper-Class Twit or a potential traitorous usurper, so he is specifically not given any guidance in how to exercise power. Then he gets marooned on a Death World, and then he finds out he was actually safer on that Death World than his brother and sister...
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Spare to the Throne / int_de32e214	comment	The Princess Diaries plays this without actually having a death. Or an original "heir" in the first place. Mia is the illegitimate daughter of the ruler of Genovia. Due to politics and her mother's wishes, there's no intention of ever putting Mia on the line of succession, with the assumption that her father will go on to get married and produce a proper heir. Then disease renders him sterile, meaning Mia (who only knows her father has some sort of government position, not even realizing he's royalty) is his only possible heir. She also isn't put right onto the throne, since her father's still alive, but she does meet the trope description of being utterly unprepared for her new role, based upon the sudden lack of other inheritors. The post-timeskip sequel Royal Wedding reveals that there's a spare too - Mia's half-sister Olivia, who was just two years old when Mia found out she was a princess, and whose existence was kept secret from everyone in the family until Mia's grandmother discovers the truth via activity from her son's bank account. Olivia later becomes third in line to the throne after Mia gives birth to twins (having only recently become pregnant when Olivia was discovered and not finding out until after the sisters met for the first time).
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Spare to the Throne / int_e04f934e	comment	Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Edelgard was born the ninth child of Adrestia's emperor and thus considered unlikely to inherit the throne. However, the deaths of all of her siblings leave her as the last remaining heir by the start of the game.
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Spare to the Throne / int_e144ba19	comment	Dragon Age II has Sebastian Vael, who is the spare to the spare as the youngest of three children. Initially he resented his brothers for this, but eventually he settled into life at the Chantry and was happy there. When his family gets slaughtered and Sebastian is suddenly the rightful ruler, he's not sure he wants to be prince anymore. Hawke can push him one way or another. In the end game, if Anders lives, Sebastian decides to take back his throne for real this time in order to exact vengeance. However, as the third game reveals, he takes the throne either way; he's just much friendlier if Anders is dead.
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Spare to the Throne / int_e203db53	comment	The Prince of Egypt: In "Footprints on the Sand" Moses muses about how lucky he is to be the king's second son since he can afford to goof around, but also knows that it means he won't amount to much historically.
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Spare to the Throne / int_e22c949c	comment	Dragon Quest: Appears twice in Dragon Quest V: Prince Harry's half-brother, Wilbur, never wanted to be king, but his mother orchestrates Harry's kidnapping, forcing Wilbur onto the throne so she can be Queen Dowager. When Harry returns ten years later, Wilbur is desperate to hand it over to him, and is completely stunned when Harry refuses. In Gotha, Albert only rose to the throne after his elder brother disappeared; though he has done a far better job than Wilbur, he's still a Reluctant Ruler who immediately tries to hand the reins over to the just-arrived heir, despite the fact that his newly rediscovered nephew has only just learned of his Secret Legacy and has had about zero training as a ruler. Dragon Quest VIII has a similar situation with King Argonia, an Unexpected Successor who had to step up after his elder brother disappeared while pursuing his lost love. While he has shaped up to be a good ruler, his own son is none other than Prince Charmles, causing his father no end of grief over how horrible he would be once it's time for him to hand down the crown. In the Golden Ending, he's presented with his brother's son at a rather awkward time for a family reunion, and it's heavily implied he cedes the right to rule after him to this new arrival, giving his own son the shaft.
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Spare to the Throne / int_e2b86487	comment	The Riftwar Cycle: Mara of the Acoma was mere moments from taking orders as a nun when her family retainers interrupted to let her know of the death of her father and brother, making her the new Lady and Master of the Acoma. Despite her fragile position and lack of ruling experience, she managed to end up the mother of the Emperor and most powerful person in Kelewan. Prince Borric was originally a spare to the throne, but his cousin drowned, his aunt passed childbearing age without producing another son, and his father renounced his claim to his brother's throne in favor of his children (believing that the kingdom would be ill served by a king only a few years younger than the one who just died of old age). Though it should be noted that he was promoted from spare to heir sooner or later a decade or more before actually taking the throne (his uncle didn't die until years after it was announced that the queen would not be producing more heirs), so he was ready for the job by the time the crown came to him.
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Spare to the Throne / int_e49328e	comment	In Chalice, the younger brother of the Master is sent off to the priests of Fire, and has advanced in his studies to the point that when his older brother dies without producing an heir, he's no longer exactly human.
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Spare to the Throne / int_e658ab64	comment	Lammas Night: William commonly refers to himself as a "fifth wheel", with no chance of reaching the throne but nothing else he can do thanks to a pre-novel breakdown that got his security clearance yanked. This becomes part of his reason for volunteering for the Human Sacrifice needed to stop Operation Sealion.To be fair, the book was written before it was widely known that the margins for Britain winning the air war were a lot wider than mythology had it, and the German General staff never seriously planned it because they knew it would be suicidal.
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Spare to the Throne / int_e9e265b6	comment	In Fire Emblem: Awakening, main protagonist Chrom is perfectly content to lead his wandering peacekeeping force, the Shepherds, while his older sister, Exalt Emmeryn, rules the country. Chrom loves and admires Emmeryn, and gives her nothing more than a token "This isn't what I would do" when he disagrees with her decisions, but nevertheless carries out her will. So when she catches a faceful of Plotline Death and he's suddenly in her place, he's devastated. In fact, his Kid from the Future makes her first attempt to Set Right What Once Went Wrong by preventing Emmeryn's assassination, and thus preventing Chrom from ever being Exalt. Unfortunately for Chrom, she still died, just in a different circumstance. (The player can later find out she survived with amnesia, but this is an optional mission and it does not change anything, practically speaking. Chrom is still Exalt because she can't be.)
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Spare to the Throne / int_efccb9da	comment	Voltron: Legendary Defender uses this trope in regards to none other than Prince Lotor. He's conspicuously absent from and uninvolved with his father King Zarkon's campaign for galactic conquest, and is only brought back into the fold after Zarkon is defeated by the Paladins during the Season 2 finale; prior to that, despite being the sole heir to the Galra Empire, the soldiers don't seem to know who he is.
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Spare to the Throne / int_f236a7c7	comment	In the Belisarius Series, Eon of Axum was the younger son of Negasa Negast Kaleb... then the royal palace was blown up by Malwa agents with his father and brother (along with his child and two concubines) inside.
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Spare to the Throne / int_f4b0cbe2	comment	In Ranger's Apprentice, it turns out Halt is a prince and the older of a pair of twins, making his brother an unintentional spare to the throne. The brother got jealous and tried to kill him, leading to him leaving his native kingdom for Araluen.
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Spare to the Throne / int_f8dec398	comment	Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto features historical examples Cesare Borgia and Giovanni de'Medici, sons of two of the most powerful families in Italy, though not quite royalty. Both were set on the path that noble second sons were often forced into in real life — the church. The problem? Cesare's older half-brother, Pedro-Luis, was killed (the manga has it that Ferdinand and Isabella saw him as a threat to their power and did away with him). This leaves Cesare's younger brother Juan as heir to the family's secular power. Giovanni is the second son of Lorenzo "The Magnificent" de'Medici, a humble, common banker who is more-or-less dictator of Florence, who made a deal with the pope to have Giovanni made a cardinal as soon as he graduates from school.
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Spare to the Throne / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, it's eventually revealed that Sanaki is actually this trope; she had an older sister who was the true apostle and the rightful empress of Begnion, but said sister and their grandmother were assassinated by the Begnion Senate so they could frame the herons, leading to the Serenes Massacre. In a double subversion, said sister (Micaiah) turns out to have survived the assassination, but abdicates the Begnion throne to go rule Daein in the end.
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Spare to the Throne / int_fa89a1ac	comment	This is explored more in the sequel, Frozen II. Like in the first movie, Anna spends most of the movie assuming the role of supporting her older sister, but when Elsa suffers a Disney Death, Anna finds herself in charge in the middle of an international crisis while grieving for the loss of the last of her family. She has to talk herself into finding her own direction independent of her sister during "The Next Right Thing," musing on how she'd always lived for her sister and asking "How to rise from the floor when it's not you I'm rising for?" Elsa comes back to life, but steps down as Queen of Arendelle and moves away, and Anna is crowned as her successor.
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Spare to the Throne / int_fc281dbc	comment	The Sunne in Splendour: Edward IV initially has only daughters with his queen Elizabeth Woodville, making his younger brother George, the spare and heir for a time. George becomes gripped with jealously, betraying Edward often enough to have him executed, though the book presents Edward's real motive for the execution as George's knowledge that Edward IV's marriage is invalid and his children are illegitimate.Younger brother Richard is more loyal, content to be The Lancer during his brother's life and even initially pledges loyalty to Edward's son and heir. Edward IV eventually has two sons. His oldest, briefly becomes Edward V and his younger brother is Richard. The two boys disappear, going down in history as the Princes in the Tower. In the novel, rather than having them murdered, Richard III is content to declare them bastards, which he sincerely believes they are, and is innocent of their murder.
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