To this day, many still judged the Queen Regent's actions harshly. No matter what, he was still her child. That her son had grown up to become such a king—hadn't it been her responsibility to raise him in the first place? How did it all come to such an end?
Such critics were mostly those whose knowledge of raising children—of exactly what was involved—was sorely lacking. It's another harsh reality. Often, it didn't matter how good of a parent one may be. Whether it's favorable or destructive, what's already an intrinsic part of a child's nature will show up, one way or another, if the child itself did not see the necessity to conceal or change it.
The Arnicans who lived in that chaotic time of transition had been a lot more accepting. Back when she and her brother were growing up under t
