Elayna a princess or an heir to the throne?

[Marta Sedai]

Morgase is the Queen of Andor, but her daughter is never called princess, but an heiress to the throne. How would they call Elayna's sister if she had one? A twin sister... Who would be the heiress in that case? The older one? What do u think?

[mb]

Her name is spelled Elayne.

 

The sister I take would become the 'daughter-heir' when the current 'daughter-heir' becomes Queen (until a daughter is born).  I take the sister would not have a title before then.

 

Twin daughters, the older one I take would be daughter-heir; though telling them apart would be difficult (if they are Identical).

 

 

There are some changes about these things in Winter's Heart (Prologue & Chapter 12) and in Knife of Dreams (Chapter 35).

 

[Graendals favourite]

Elayne comments to herself, was it in CoT or Kod, when speaking to a maid somewhere in Andor who does not know how to behave with such a high personage, that the title Princess is considered very old-fashioned, but would be preferable to whatever it is she uses.

[Marta Sedai]

I didn't catch that... I corrected the spelling...

[Thorum]

Spelling is not that important...

 

The sister I take would become the 'daughter-heir' when the current 'daughter-heir' becomes Queen (until a daughter is born).  I take the sister would not have a title before then.

 

It would probably be 'sister-heir' instead... Corresponding to 'Queen-Mum'.

 

Not that it really matters, Andoran queendom is not pass-throughable in the direct per se.