Queen Alexandra

Queen Alexandra is the protagonist of book, mainly centered on her life. She is caring and compassionate to the people she cares about.

Appearance
Alexandra has wavy brown hair that she usually keeps in a low ponytail. She almost always has a crown/tiara on, mainly the slim band with the large ruby. She has pale skin, and brown eyes. She generally wears large skirts in dark or natural colors, and often with a high neckline. Sometimes her outfits were accented by jewels.

Personality
Alexandra was a rather outspoken child, but grew into an quiet teenager, probably because of her mother's death when she was seven years old. When she was an adult, she tended to shut up her emotions, and often wore a guarded expression. She had an affectionate relationship with all of her children, but was especially attached to Claude and Grace. She occasionally had angry outbursts usually directed and Daemon, that would end with her in tears and him taking a new mistress.

Biography
Queen Alexandra was the seventh child of the King and Queen of the Gem Kingdom. She developed a very close relationship with her mother, who taught her all about pregnancy, how to rule a kingdom, and the best way to deal with a difficult relationship, along with other things. Alexandra's mother died when Alexandra was about seven years old. This had a big impact on Alexandra's life, and made her such a quite and guarded teen.

Her father remarried when Alex was eight, and the Alex and her stepmother, Elenor, hated each other on sight. Elenor despised Alex because the girl was becoming more and more beautiful as the years passed. Rumors were flying the the queen wanted the young girl assassinated. The king claimed he was unable to do anything without proof. He assigned extra guards to his daughter, but that was it. Just before her thirteenth birthday, the family sat down to dinner and a servant noticed that the queen was watching Alexandra closely. Alex must have noticed too, because she glared at her step mother as she took a bite of her dinner. She immediately dropped her fork and crumpled to the ground. He physician confirmed that she had been poisoned. Her father used this, and an eyewitness account from the servant as proof, and had Elenor executed. Alex made a full recovery.

When she was 14, her father married a third time, to a young girl named Claude. Alex automatically mistrusted Claude, and Claude understood, and didn't try to get to close to the girl at first. After a while Alex began to warm up to the young queen. Claude taught Alex about things like knitting and sewing, as well as taking care of children. Something that may have helped, was the fact that Claude was only 4 years older than Alexandra.

When she was 17 she met Prince Daemon, a potential husband that her father was considering betrothing her to. They liked each other instantly, and spent a lot of time together. When she was 19 and he was 24, Alex made a scandalous discovery. Alex was unmarried- and pregnant. She urgently needed her child's father to marry her. She immediately sent a letter to him saying he needed to visit right now. When Daemon arrived, she ran to him and said "Daemon. You have to propose to me. In front of my father." When he asked her why, she responded: "Oh Daemon. We made such a big mistake. I'm pregnant." He proposed at dinner that night, and the marriage was a week later. Tragedy struck when only two months into the pregnancy, Alexandra suffered a miscarriage.

When she was twenty, Alex conceived and gave birth to not one, but TWO daughters. The girls were named Victoria and Alexandrina. Seven children followed. At age 22 she gave birth to Edward. At age 23, Alfie. Age 25, Cora, age 27, Lillian. Age 28, Richie. Age 30, Francis. It was around the time of Francis's birth that Cora became very sick, and died at the age of 5. Finally, she gave birth to her final child with Daemon, Princess Claude, when she was 32. Through out this time, her marriage was to Daemon was failing, because of his controlling nature and detachment to the family. He also took a lot of mistresses, to Alexandra's dismay. Despite this, she did her best to hold her marriage together, for their children.

In 3871, only two months after Claude was born, King Phillip, from a different kingdom, sent an ambassador with an interesting task. His task was to find something Daemon cared about, and take it until Daemon could pay off his heavy debt. Daemon disinterestedly offered Alexandra, to the shock and dismay of his court. She was allowed to take any children under the age of 5. Alex sent a servant to fetch 4 year old Richie, 2 year old Francis, and 2 month old Claude. After three years, the ransom had not been paid, and now, Richie was six years old. He was sent home alone, leaving his heartbroken mother and two little siblings. Two years later, Francis was sent back too. In the final two years of their captivity, Alex and Phillip grow very close. Eventually, he decided to cut Alex's ransom in half. Daemon was able to pay to get her and Claude back, and they tearfully said goodbye. Alexandra was 39.

During the last year of her imprisonment, Daemon had been increasingly realizing how much he had loved her. Upon hearing of her safe return, he sent her a letter that said:

My dearest Alexandra,

I am much relieved at your safe return, as well as our daughter's. I trust that you are not angry at me, as I did it to protect y kingdom. I believe that we can rule together peacefully. I am sure you are well.

King Daemon.

Alexandra was enraged. She sent back this letter:

Daemon,

I am very well, thank you for asking. I have much better things to do then waste my time, so allow me to be rather blunt. I am in love with someone else. I am almost forty, and if I am to bear his children as well, I must be quick about this. I want a divorce.

Alexandra

The king did not react well to this. He ordered a tower to be built, almost overnight. Then, once it was finished, he ordered his wife and all of his children to be rounded up and brought to the tower. He assigned his most loyal guards to watch the tower day and night, and gave orders that:

...no one is to enter or exit the building... they are to be held until I order otherwise... feed them the bare minimum...

Alexandra was 39, and her children were 19, 17, 16, 12, 11, 9, and 7. Somehow, Alex was able to get a letter out to Phillip. She explained what had happened, and begged him to get her and her children to safety. He split his army, sending one third to rescue Alexandra and the kids, one third to menace Daemon and keep him distracted, and the final third to protect his kingdom in case of attack. When Daemon realized what had happened, he was furious. Unfortunately for him, Phillip's army had already returned to protect the kingdom. A year passed with Alexandra begging for a divorce. Daemon didn't answer. Finally, a letter from his daughter Alexandrina seemed to make him change his mind. He signed off on the divorce, and Alexandra was overjoyed. She and Phillip married a few days later.

Phillip and Alexandra were ecstatic when Alexandra became pregnant with their first and only child. She gave birth to a baby girl they named Grace. Alexandra and Phillip were very happy together, and lived out their life in Mestrya. She died age 96 on February 14th, 3934, and was buried in Indraneelam, where she was born. Phillip passed away on April 17, the same year. He was buried in Mestrya.

Daemon
Alexandra had a tense relationship with her first husband, as a result of their hurried marriage. They divorced when she was 40.

Victoria
Victoria and Alexandra have an affectionate, if not close relationship, due to the fact that Alexandra hired a nanny to raise her instead of raising Victoria herself. This is the tradition of all royals though.

Alexandrina
Alexandra was not ever close to her daughter, but they wrote often while she was imprisoned, and their relationship improved when Alexandrina wrote a letter to Daemon, that convinced him to divorce Alexandra.

Edward
Alexandra was overjoyed at the birth of an heir, but Daemon forced her to allow a nanny to raise her son. She wasn't ever very close to him.

Alfie
Alexandra often was dismayed at her second son's antics and scolded him personally. He was also raised by a nanny.

Cora
Before Cora's death at age 5, Alexandra was very close with her third daughter. Although Cora was still raised by a nanny most of the time, Alexandra hovered near the nursery most of the time. She was heartbroken when Cora died.

Lillian
Lillian was close friends with her mother as an adult, but they mostly ignored each other in her youth. She was raised by the family nanny.

Richard
Richard was the fourth son of Alexandra and Daemon. He was four when he was sent with his mother to Mestrya as captives.

Francis
Francis was the fifth son of Alexandra and Daemon. He was two when he was sent to Mestrya with his mother as captives.

Claude
Claude was Alexandra's favorite child. They bonded in their time in Mestrya, and looked at Phillip as a father, before she even knew who her real father was.

Grace
Alexandra's relationship was close with her youngest daughter, but it grew icy when Grace disgraced her parents by becoming pregnant by another man's child, while married. Grace refused to say who Archer's father was, but she did admit it wasn't her husband.

Colin
Alexandra shared a distant relationship with her father.

Catherine
Alexandra was very close with her mother, and was crushed when she died.

Elenor
Alexandra shared a mutual hatred for Elenor, who was jealous of the teen's growing beauty.

Claude
Alexandra grew closed to her step mother, maybe because Claude was only 4 years older. They became fast friends.

Archer
Archer was the illegitimate son of Alexandra's daughter, Grace. Despite this, Alexandra loved him a lot.