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*** For that matter, Queen Morgase too. Not the age part, but having to act the very picture of a queen (and the loneliness part, if her fling with Thom is any judge).
* [[The High Queen]] in ''Wicked Lovely'', Sorcha, seems to suffer from this. As she puts it 'the unchanging queen wasn't allowed to show such emotion'.
* Subverted in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. Eowyn was ''ordered'' to be this and refused.
* The Childlike Empress in ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]'' (''Die Unendliche Geschichte'') is this. She's quite different in the film version, though, because the film never truly shows the burden she has to bear.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "Black Colossus" Princess Yasmela. Her brother the king is prisoner and she is ruling in his stead, and when she finds Conan attractive it produces a guilty start.
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