Prince Richard

The recognised heir and the second royal face most Britons know, seen at military reviews, charitable openings, aerial demonstrations and regimental funerals. He is quicker in temper and more openly martial than his father.

Prince Richard is the heir of King Edmund IV and the most visible secondary figure of the Royal House. He appears at military reviews, charitable openings, aerial demonstrations, regimental funerals, and on the carefully chosen journeys by which a royal heir is made visible without being permitted to become an alternative court. Royal cadets are numerous, but none commands a following large enough to rival the direct line.

He is regarded as quicker in temper and more openly martial than his father, which makes him popular with younger officers and useful to the newspapers. It also causes Westminster to watch every friendship around him. He has formed no political faction of his own, and the King’s household works hard to keep that sentence true. Children across London learn his name alongside his father’s, from proclamations, feast days and schoolroom speech.

Companies meet the Prince at a distance: in the crowd at a review or an aerial demonstration, or on the edges of one of his journeys, where a great deal of quiet work goes into ensuring the heir is seen by the right people and met by no one inconvenient. Those who find themselves near him should expect to be noticed by others as well.

In person

The Prince is a lean, athletic man in his late twenties, with black wavy hair worn longer at the front, a pale olive complexion and hazel eyes. His nose is crooked from an old break and a small scar marks his chin. He is clean-shaven and wears young royal and military court dress, and carries himself more quickly and openly than his father does.