Line #44 Literature/PrincessAcademy


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2	->''I cut all day and I squared all night''\
3	''And I thought I'd mined the mountain's might''\
4	''Then I saw all my work by the bright dawn light''\
5	''The mountain was the world and my labor a mite''
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7	''Princess Academy'' is a young adult novel by Creator/ShannonHale, author of ''The Goose Girl'' and ''Enna Burning.''
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9	14-year-old Miri lives with her father and older sister in a small village, on the slopes of the great mountain, Mount Eskel. The villagers make their living mining linder, a type of stone that is hard enough to hold up great palaces and never crack, yet light enough to haul long distances. Miri's father has never allowed her to work in the quarry, but has never told her why. She believes it's because she's small for her age, and she longs for a chance to be useful and valued.
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11	One day, a messenger from the king comes to Mount Eskel to declare that all the village girls aged twelve to eighteen must attend the titular "princess academy," which will teach them to act like noble girls and prepare them for the day that one of them is chosen as the prince's bride. Miri must compete with all the other girls for the chance to marry the prince, but she discovers that maybe there are other things better than being a princess.
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13	The first book was released in 2005. The second book, ''Palace of Stone'', came in 2012. The third book, ''The Forgotten Sisters'', came in 2015.
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16	!!The novels contains examples of:
17	* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Britta's father]] smoked out his daughter after planning to use her as an UnwittingPawn to marry [[spoiler: Prince Steffan]].
18	* AlphaBitch: Katar appears to be one at first, although she gets better in the sequels. She is rude, cold, and arrogant, picks on Miri constantly, has a GirlPosse in Bena and Liana, and is one of the smartest students at the academy. But it turns out that because of her cold attitude, the other girls actually don't like or respect her at all. During the final exam, when everyone has to answer a question from the teacher in turn, the girls secretly give each other answers using quarry-speech, but when Katar can't answer her question, nobody gives her any help except Miri. Indeed, later that night, the other girls vote for Miri to be academy princess instead of her, because of how she helped them in the exam.
19	-->'''Miri:''' I'm glad you spoke up or we could still be standing out here waiting.
20	-->'''Katar:''' I'm a better diplomat than you and everyone knows it. It should've been me talking. Too bad for you that academy princess isn't based on who everyone likes best.
21	* AssInAmbassador: The chief delegate. So much that in ''The Forgotten Sisters'' [[spoiler: the queen fires him for overstaying his position, taking her girls away from her, and bullying Miri.]]
22	* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Gerti is the youngest of the girls at the Mount Eskel princess academy, only twelve years old. Ironically, she is the oldest of four sisters at home.
23	* BarefootPoverty: The poor are literally called the shoeless. Sus, Felissa and Astrid also don't wear shoes.
24	* BreakTheHaughty:
25	** Katar gets doses of this.
26	** So does [[spoiler: Britta's father]].
27	** The [[spoiler: chief delegate and Storan Commander Mongus]] at the end of ''The Forgotten Sisters''.
28	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
29	** [[spoiler: Britta's father]] made his daughter pose as a commoner so that she would have a chance at marrying the prince. In ''Palace of Stone'' [[spoiler: the king makes Britta into a commoner, stripping her family of their lands]].
30	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Downplayed. Britta is generally nice to everyone anyway, but she has a special soft spot for Miri because Miri was the first person to treat her kindly when all the others were shunning her.
31	* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The commonfolk and nobles have a good reason to be angry when they have no power going against corrupt nobles, the king tasks them to starvation, and a so-called "fake" commoner [[spoiler:like Britta]] gets the crown. Mount Eskel [[spoiler:nearly]] suffers taxation that would starve the quarry-folk. With that said, the royalty has a point in wanting to fight the WellIntentionedExtremist revolutionaries that would execute nobles [[spoiler: and nearly kill Britta]] and create anarchy instead of equality.
32	* BrokenBird: Queen Sabet after [[spoiler: she was forced to give up three of her children]]. She takes a while to grow out of this.
33	* BullyingADragon: Discussed. The girls realize that Olana's SadistTeacher methods are being used on the ''future queen'' of the land, and whoever becomes queen [[TheDogBitesBack could use her power to get Olana]] ReassignedToAntarctica. They use this to bargain with Olana about getting fairer treatment.
34	* TheCakeIsALie: To motivate the girls to study harder, Olana shows them an elaborate painting of a beautiful house with a garden full of flowers, and says the house will be given to the family of the girl chosen as princess. [[spoiler:After Steffan chooses Britta as his bride, Olana admits privately to Miri that the house doesn't actually exist and was used as a MotivationalLie (not that it matters much, since Britta's family is already rich and wouldn't need another house anyway). She gives the painting to Miri and says she earned it for being academy princess.]]
35	* CallingTheOldManOut: Miri, Astrid, Felissa and Sus do this to [[spoiler: King Bjorn, Queen Sabet and the chief delegate who ordered that the girls be raised in a swamp, with no one to take care of them after their adoptive mother died.]] Miri's so furious that she smashes a vase, and Astrid refuses to forgive [[spoiler: the queen for what she did]]. Steffan makes his view on the matter clear by [[spoiler: stepping down and letting his twin sister Astrid rule.]]
36	* TheCameo: Olana is absent for the second book, but appears in the last scene of the third and final book, [[spoiler:as the teacher of the prince academy to determine [[HereWeGoAgain which of the noble Danlander boys will be Astrid's future husband.]]]]
37	* ChandlersLaw: Two thirds of the way into the first book the plot seems to be dead-ending into anticlimax: the academic year has finished, the prince has shown up and looks to be a dud, and has even left without choosing a princess, leaving the princess candidates (and the audience) with the prospect of another pointless winter in the academy. [[spoiler:Fortunately the book is saved when a pack of bandits attacks without warning and captures all the girls!]]
38	* ChekhovsClassroom: Several of the lessons that Miri and the other girls learn at the academy end up coming into play in later scenes.
39	* ChekhovsGun:
40	** The linder hawk that Peder gives to Miri which [[spoiler:helps her to defeat Dan. See ImprobableWeaponUser below.]]
41	** The letters that the traders never delivered between Miri, Britta, Peder and Katar. [[spoiler: Stora soldiers received the letters for coin and learned that there were three girls that were princesses hiding in the South.]]
42	* ChekhovsGunman:
43	** The bandits, when they are first introduced, come across as legendary figures from the past who, we are assured, will never return and whose presence in the story seems to be set dressing rather than plot-relevant. [[spoiler:Then they show up at the end to be the plot's main antagonists.]]
44	** Timon from ''Palace of Stone''. Peder allies with him in an EnemyMine to [[spoiler: rescue Miri and the princesses in ''The Forgotten Sisters''.]]
45	* ChekhovsLecture: Astrid, Felissa and Sus use their knowledge of Storan history to [[spoiler: obtain an audience with the new king and shut up his commanding officers.]]
46	* ChekhovsSkill:
47	** Quarry-speaking proves to be a vital skill while Miri is at school, as she uses it to help the other girls and they, in turn, use it to help each other: to cheat on their final exam and [[spoiler:to escape the bandits]].
48	** Literacy, which Miri was learning as a means of snagging the prince, [[spoiler:doesn't work for that purpose, but]] does enable her to improve the economic bargaining position of her people.
49	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Miri and Peder were close as children, and Miri already has feelings for him before going to the school and eventually ending up with him. [[spoiler:Britta is also revealed to have been Prince Steffan's childhood playmate years before, which is why he chooses her as his princess.]]
50	* CityMouse: Britta. The other girls use this as an excuse to shun her in the beginning of the first book.
51	* CoolBigSis: Frid and Marda.
52	* CostumePorn: The descriptions of the dresses the girls get to wear for the ball. Case in point --
53	-->''Miri had never seen silk before, but she had read that it was the linder of cloth, and when the seamstress pulled a silk scarf from her bag, Miri could see why. It was heavy with brilliant colors swirled into a pattern of flowers yet shimmered secretly, like water under a crescent moon.''
54	* CutLexLuthorACheck: The chief delegate wants to sell the Mount Eskel mines to traders so as to fill up the royal treasury.
55	* DamselOutOfDistress: [[spoiler:When Dan takes Miri hostage at the end of the first book, she forces him to let go of her by stabbing him in the hand with the linder hawk that Peder gave her. Because they're hanging off of a cliff when this happens, he falls to his death.]]
56	* DeathByChildbirth:
57	** This and an earlier linder quarry accident did in Miri's MissingMom.
58	** Katar's mother as well.
59	** Esa is beyond furious when she discovers that the lowlanders have the medical knowledge to prevent this and never even thought to share it.
60	* DefrostingIceQueen: Katar. By ''The Forgotten Sisters'' she and Miri are TrueCompanions.
61	* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Downplayed a bit, as missing a meal is actually considered a moderate punishment in ''Princess Academy''. When the girls negotiate for better conditions, one of their concessions is that a missed meal can be used as punishment when necessary (as opposed to harsher measures, like being hit or locked in a closet, which will not be allowed under the terms of the agreement).
62	* DidntThinkThisThrough:
63	** When negotiating with their tutor Olana for better treatment, one of the things the academy students ask for is the dismissal of the Aslandian soldiers, since they only seem to be there to intimidate the students into behaving. Olana asks what will happen if bandits come to the mountain village, so Katar points out that even if they do come, there is nothing valuable in the village except linder blocks too heavy to steal, and the mountain men are strong enough to fend them off. However, none of them realize that bandits could still attack the academy ''itself'', which is a good distance from the village--and they do, when they hear that one of the students will be chosen as the future princess of Danland. They break into the academy unhindered and capture all the girls, intending to find the one chosen as princess and hold her for ransom.
64	** In ''The Forgotten Sisters'', Miri tries to make a strong impression on the girls by imitating her SadistTeacher Olana. She forgets that this impression didn't work on her or her friends, and the "princesses" aren't that impressed, especially when Miri faints from dehydration.
65	* DishingOutDirt: [[spoiler: In ''Palace of Stone'', the girls manage to quarry-speech the palace linder into cracking and falling on an assassin.]]
66	* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Dan falls to his death from a cliff after Miri stabs him in the hand with a linder hawk.]]
67	* EarnYourHappyEnding:
68	** In Book One the girls fight off a SadistTeacher, their own ignorance, and [[spoiler: bandits]] to gain an education. Miri finds her place on Mount Eskel, and [[spoiler: Britta gets to marry her childhood love]].
69	** Mount Eskel becomes [[spoiler: independent and not subject to noblemen's whims by ''The Forgotten Sisters'']]. [[spoiler: Britta and Steffan marry]] and change happens for the better with [[spoiler: Steffan's sister Astrid becoming the crown princess and Britta becoming the new ambassador]].
70	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Miri.
71	* EnemyMine: Peder and Timon in ''The Forgotten Sisters'' [[spoiler: to save Miri.]] In the previous book they were romantic rivals for Miri's hand.
72	* EtTuBrute:
73	** Britta has this reaction when Miri confesses that her school assignment that was anti-royal propaganda has been used to rouse the mobs and rebellion. Miri apologies and risks her life to protect Britta's.
74	** Miri's own reaction when she realizes that [[spoiler: Timon, her classmate]] gave said paper to the reactionaries and then [[spoiler: Liana, a girl of Mount Eskel, led an assassin]] to Britta's hiding place.
75	** Miri also reacts this way [[spoiler: Timon reveals he and the other nobles hired an assassin to kill Britta, and to tell Miri to run]]. Peder also hears and nearly [[spoiler: beats Timon to a pulp.]]
76	* GoGetterGirl: Katar's motivation for her hard work at the academy.
77	* HeelFaceTurn: The [[spoiler: bandit Dogface]] in ''The Forgotten Sisters''.
78	* FantasyGunControl: Averted. Muskets and pistols show up in ''Palace of Stone''.
79	* FirstGuyWins: [[spoiler:Miri gets Peder, her childhood friend, instead of the prince she meets at the end, and Timon later on]].
80	* FisherKingdom: Staying in Mount Eskel, particularly being exposed to it's linder, is [[spoiler:what makes quarry-speech possible]]. [[spoiler:It's also why the king's wing is built out of linder.]]
81	* FishOutOfWater: Britta doesn't adapt well to mountain life. Miri also in the swamp.
82	* FlowerMotif: In-universe, Miri is named after a mountain flower that her people make wishes on by plucking the petals and letting them fall. It fits perfectly with Miri's desire to become someone her father could be proud of.
83	* FoodPorn: The descriptions of the royal food at the ball's banquet.
84	-->''They ate fresh roast with bread-and-vinegar pudding, pickled beetroot, lamb's head and boar's head, fresh fish breaded in wheat flour and fried with yellow squash, and heaps of soft, steamy bread...sticky honey cakes, syrupy custards, and fruit dusted with sugar so light that it melted on Miri's tongue before she was scarcely aware of the flavor.''
85	* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Miri is like this with [[spoiler: Liana, who betrayed Britta to would-be assassins and revolutionaries.]] She forgives the latter for betrayal, but warns that if [[spoiler: Liana]] does something like that again she will tell the latter's parents, and [[spoiler: Liana]] will be confined to her home.
86	* GirlPosse: Bena and Liana could be interpreted as this for Katar.
87	* HappilyAdopted: Britta is arguably adopted by Mount Eskel, finding a happier home there than in the lowland and [[spoiler:later renounces her noble title.]]
88	* HereWeGoAgain: The third and final book ends with [[spoiler:Olana overseeing the prince academy to determine which of the noble boys will become Princess Astrid's betrothed]].
89	* HoldingHands: Both platonically and romantically.
90	* IAmSpartacus: All the girls claim to be the prince's betrothed [[spoiler:to stop the robbers from making off with just one of them.]]
91	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Miri's [[spoiler:linder hawk]]
92	* KangarooCourt: Miri says that a commoner can challenge a noble in court. She's then shown that in every case the noble has won, and the reasons given range from very flimsy to outright saying that the noble must be right because commoners are untrustworthy.
93	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Jeffers]], the man who stole the girls' allowance and letters, suffers this when he tries to kill Miri. [[spoiler: Peder happened to be holding a gun.]]
94	* KirkSummation: When confronting [[spoiler: Liana]] over a betrayal, Miri shuts the latter's complaints that [[StrawmanHasAPoint Britta knew what it was like to live in luxury and without hunger]] by saying that [[spoiler:Miri, being the academy princess, would have been the obvious choice for Steffan,]] and she gave her blessing to the marriage.
95	* LargeAndInCharge: Applies to both Katar (tall and older than most of the other girls) and Dan (large and imposing).
96	* LaserGuidedKarma:
97	** [[spoiler: Britta's parents]] want their daughter to marry the prince and create a BatmanGambit to assure that it happens. Due to political pressures on the king in book two, he [[spoiler: strips them of their noble title to make Britta a commoner and satisfy the populace.]]
98	** Olana as a SadistTeacher locks up students in the closet, at one point leaving Miri for nearly the entire night with a rat because she forgot about her. [[spoiler: The bandit Dan proceeds to lock her and Knut in the closet when they take over the academy for several days.]]
99	** The chief delegate was the one who mandated that Mount Eskel be sold to traders, and [[spoiler: ordered Astrid, Felissa and Sus to be sent into exile as babies]] to avoid another potential civil war. When he tries to bully Miri and exile her from the palace, [[spoiler: Queen Sabet strips him of his position and orders ''him'']] to leave.
100	* TheLoad: For most of the book, Miri thinks she's this because her father has never allowed her to work in the linder quarry.
101	* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Miri worries that her father believes this. [[spoiler:He doesn’t, he’s just stoic and grieving his wife’s death, but loves Miri dearly.]]
102	** [[spoiler:Played straight with Katar. Her father blames her for her mother’s death and she believes that he also wishes that she were a son or at least a different kind of girl.]]
103	* MayDecemberRomance: Discussed; Prince Steffan is 18 while the Mount Eskel girls eligible to marry him range from 12 to 17. [[spoiler:He ends up choosing his childhood friend Britta, who is either his age or very close to it.]]
104	* MayItNeverHappenAgain: ''The Forgotten Sisters'' reveals that Danland was once torn apart by civil war when Princess Katarina declared that she, not her twin brother Prince Klas, was actually the firstborn and rightful ruler. [[spoiler:To prevent such a thing like that from happening, the three princesses Astrid, Sus, and Felissa were taken away from their parents at birth and raised in a swamp so their older brother Steffan would become king unimpeded.]]
105	* MeaningfulName: Miri is named after a [[FlowerMotifs mountain flower]].
106	* MinorLivingAlone: ''The Forgotten Sisters'' runs on this. [[spoiler: The three princesses Astrid, Sus and Felissa, are actually King Bjorn's and Queen Sabet's children, sent to live in the swamp to avoid a repeat of history with royals [[CainAndAbel Katrina and Klas]] and the heir Steffan. Queen Sabet was broken about not fighting to keep her girls, which she considers MyGreatestFailure, and the girls ended up in poverty after their adoptive mother Elin died with traders stealing their letters and a villageman stealing their allowance. To say that Miri and the girls are angry when they learn the truth is an {{Understatement}}]].
107	* MissingMom:
108	** Miri and Katar's mothers both died when they were babies.
109	** Astrid, Felissa, and Sus's mom Elin died of summer fever when Sus was still a baby. [[spoiler: Subverted. She wasn't really their mother, but she did die and their real mother was not allowed to even acknowledge their existence, let alone meet and care for them]]. The three sister and Miri bond over their loss of mothers and finally allows Miri to come into their home without a formal request.
110	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Peder nearly delivers one to [[spoiler: Timon]] in ''Palace of Stone'' when the latter reveals that [[spoiler: the rebellious nobles hired an assassin to kill Britta]].
111	* ObfuscatingStupidity: At the academy, Britta pretends that she can't read, but later it's revealed that she can.
112	* PoorCommunicationKills: If Doter had spoken up earlier, or Miri's dad were less close-mouthed, Miri would know [[spoiler: why her dad is so overprotective]].
113	* PrincessesPreferPink: The academy princess dress, while mostly silver, is accented with pink ribbons and rosebuds.
114	* PromotionToParent: Of a sort. Miri takes over her mother's duties around the house as soon as she's old enough, but she's not actually ''parenting'' anyone as she's the youngest. (She didn't have much choice anyway -- her father refused to let her work in the quarry.)
115	* RagsToRiches: The priests divine Mount Eskel, a tiny mining village, as the home of the prince's future bride. But it would not do for a poor, uneducated commoner girl to be handed a fancy dress and a crown just like that, so the candidates have to attend a "princess academy" for a year to educate them the way noble ladies are educated in Danland.
116	* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Nearby Rilamark fell prey to this, with the commoners executing each and every royal or noble they could get their hands on. [[spoiler:Danland almost goes the same way.]]
117	* RoyalSchool: The princess academy, wherever it's set up.
118	* RuleOfSymbolism: Invoked by Miri in ''Palace of Stone''. During a tense confrontation between the commoners and nobles, Britta is the only one to notice that a shoeless boy is about to be run over, and loses her own shoes saving him. This act shocks the rebellion, and Miri uses the moment to pick up her shoes and show the crowd that Britta is now shoeless like them. After Britta [[spoiler:becomes a commoner herself]] and becomes an advocate for the shoeless, the incident takes on a sort of folkish status.
119	* SadistTeacher: Olana deliberately invokes this so the girls will study harder just to spite her. It works more or less, but it also inspires them to run away from the academy.
120	* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: [[spoiler:Miri doesn't get the prince, but this allows her to stay on her mountain home with her childhood friend Peder, where she feels she really belongs.]]
121	* SheCleansUpNicely: All of the girls clean up nicely to meet Prince Steffan.
122	* ShorterMeansSmarter: Miri is the shortest girl in the class, but is the first to master the textbooks.
123	* SmugSnake: Gummoth, the king's official. He's the one encouraging the king to overtax the nobles and commoners.
124	* SoProudOfYou: When all the girls except Miri and Katar fail an exam and Olana won't let them return to their village for spring holiday, they all run out anyway, much to her anger. When they return, they use the principles of Diplomacy to argue with her: they were wrong to disobey her, but she was also an unfair and strict teacher to them. However, they are willing to return to the academy on their own terms as long as they can return home on rest and trading days. If she treats them fairly, the girl chosen as princess will ensure that she gets comfortable work teaching in Asland; if she does not, then the princess will have her sent to work in an unpleasant environment such as a swamp. After they have laid out everything, Olana actually smiles and applauds them, proud that they have come so far in learning Diplomacy, and accepts their terms.
125	-->'''Olana''': This has been a very good demonstration of Diplomacy. Let’s return to our studies and see if we can’t get you to the same level in every subject.
126	* SoupOfPoverty: Even though the villagers of Mount Eskel are the only miners of linder in the world, they remain poor because the lowlander traders take advantage of their lack of knowledge to not pay them fairly for their linder. Sometimes they have to water down their gruel to stretch it thin enough to get through the winter. They have a little song about it that goes, "Water in the porridge / And more salt in the gruel / Doesn't make a belly / Full, not a bellyful."
127	* TheStoic: When in public, Prince Steffan tends to be very quiet, reserved and give noncommittal answers to questions during a conversation. Miri thinks he does "a stunning impression of a stone column".
128	* {{Telepathy}}: Probably the closest way to describe quarry-speech. It sends out a message, which nudges any nearby memories or feelings.
129	* TokenEvilTeammate:
130	** [[spoiler: Liana]] becomes this, after she [[spoiler: allows Britta to be betrayed]].
131	** Subverted with Katar after the first book; she acts like an AlphaBitch, but plays by the rules and is protective of the younger girls. See below.
132	* TookALevelInKindness: Katar after she becomes [[spoiler:Mount Eskel's delegate]].
133	* TrueCompanions: The girls of Mount Eskel eventually, after the school brings them together.
134	* TwoTeacherSchool: The staff of the princess academy consists of exactly two people--Olana, the teacher, and Knut, the handyman and cook. The justification is that the academy is only a temporary institution to teach the princess candidates the manners and ways of noble girls before they can be presented to the prince.
135	* UnwittingPawn:
136	** Britta is this in both books, first to her [[spoiler: parents]] and then to [[spoiler: the rebellious nobles]] that want to behead her to start a revolution. Even though Miri helps her, she's probably going to remain a pawn in the court.
137	** Miri was supposed to be one for the chief delegate, since the only reason she went to the swamp was to receive Mount Eskel's deed to the mine and the village. He not only set her up to fail but was going to sell the deeds while she was away. He didn't anticipate that Miri would not only succeed, but also [[spoiler: stopped a war and saved his king and queen]].
138	* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: All Miri wants is to work in the quarry, even though her father won't let her because she's so small, and make him proud of her. [[spoiler:He already is.]]
139	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: During the final exam, when all the girls are helping each other via quarry speak, Katar trips up on a particularly difficult question. Despite her dislike for Katar (and knowing that Katar is in no danger of failing), Miri decides that it's wrong to selectively exclude one person from the help they'd been giving everyone else and helps her.
140	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It would appear that the story is set somewhere in Northern Europe, but the reader is never told exactly where. The use of names like Britta and Bjork suggest that Danland is a fantastical equivalent to Sweden.
141	* WorthlessYellowRocks: Downplayed. Mount Eskel knows that linder has ''some'' value and makes its economy mining it, but it isn't until Miri comes across it in an economic text that she realizes that it's ''far'' more valuable than they thought and the merchants have been fleecing them for years. When trading season comes, the village makes clear to the merchants that they won't be taken advantage of anymore and that their only choices are to pay them fairly or lose the sales entirely.
142	* WrittenByTheWinners: Discussed in ''The Forgotten Sisters.'' Miri relates an event in Danlandian history where a pair of royal twins, Katarina and Klas, were born. Before Klas could be crowned king, Katarina forced the royal physician to declare that she was actually the firstborn and thus the rightful queen, sparking a civil war that she eventually lost. Miri asks her students what would be written in the history book if Katarina had won and her children had inherited the throne. Astrid suggests a version of events in which the physician bravely revealed that Princess Katarina was the true firstborn after years of being threatened into silence, but the evil, greedy Prince Klas started a civil war in an attempt to murder his sister.
143	* YouAreGrounded: Any girl who does not do well enough on the final exams will not be permitted to attend the ball and meet the prince. Miri uses quarry-speech to help several of the girls who struggle on the history exam so this will not happen. After she does it enough times, the girls catch on and start using quarry-speech to help each other.

Context Literature / PrincessAcademy