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*** Well, them telling her [[Cassandra Truth|wouldn't have helped at all]], anyways, and they knew it; she was too infatuated with the prince, at the time, and saying bad things about him - however true they might be - without ''very'' strong evidence to back it up would only have turned her against them. So they ''had'' to wait and hope she'd start seeing the truth about her [[White Prince]]. {{spoiler|Pity it took him trying to capture one of the [[Sapient Steed|Heraldic Companions]] in an attempt to ''become'' a Herald (and thus eligible for the throne), and then throwing a tantrum and trying to order Caryo killed when she kicked him. To make matters worse, Caryo was Selenay's ''own'' [[Bond Creatures|Companion]].}}
* Lady Mara in Raymond Feist's and Joanna Wurtz's ''Daughter of the Empire'' and its sequels must take command of the noble house of the Acoma when her parents are killed. Complicating matters is a societal proscription against showing emotion in public.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
* Queen Keli in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]'', only allows herself to be a confused and somewhat whiny teenager in front of Cutwell and Mort. The Duchess of Borogravia in ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'' turned into this ''after her own death'' thanks to [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|the power of belief]] on the Disc.▼
** Queen Keli in ''[[Mort]]'', only allows herself to be a confused and somewhat whiny teenager in front of Cutwell and Mort.
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* [[George R. R. Martin]]'s ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' has Daenerys Targaryen, who goes from an innocent [[Everything's Better with Princesses|princess]] to this over the course of the series.
** I would say that Dany's line "I am just a young girl and unexperienced in the ways of (blank), but..." would qualify her for an inversion: [[Obfuscating Stupidity|the Queen with the Girlie Mask]]?
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** Elizabeth II, as mentioned in the entry about the film ''The Queen'' above, has quite a bit of this trope in her story, too.
* Urraca, Queen of Leon and Castile from 1109 AD to 1126 AD. She was Queen in her own right, and reigned alone from 1110 onwards.
* Maria Theresa of Austria fits this trope
** Let's not forget her daughter... [[Marie Antoinette]]. Who gets beheaded after the French Revolution.▼
▲*** Though Maria Theresa never appeared to have a "queenly mask". She enjoyed life too much. Perhaps she is more the [[The High Queen]].
*** Or perhaps she just wore the mask ''very, very'' well.
** She was also a major [[Badass]]. How many women can you think of that give birth then rushed of to command her troops in battle with the baby in her arm? (Admittedly she lost that battle.) The only thing I can think of that is more [[Badass]] is The Boss from MGS giving birth by C-section while on the battlefield and winning.
▲** Let's not forget her daughter
* [[Catherine the Great]] ''had'' to be this in the beginning of her reign, because her claim for the Russian throne was dubious at best - she wasn't Romanov or even Russian at all, seriously, what the hell? But when her position was somewhat stronger, she [[Really Gets Around|relaxed a bit]].
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