The reigning household

Lady Petronella Downreed

The Aunt With Receipts

She remembers the wedding. Especially the seating plan.

Algernon’s widow and Clement’s mother has outlived seven fashion cycles and every attempt to tell her what happened at her own parties. She welcomed Odette into the family with a remarkable hat and cautious optimism. After the scandal she retained the wedding china, explaining that exile was no excuse for waste. She is Aurelius III’s aunt by marriage and the court’s most dangerous source of accurate background information.

The hat grows with her seniority. Nobody has established its legal limit.

Compare each duck at the same life stage, not the same calendar date. Dates and ages appear with each portrait. These are fictional calendar seasons, not published story seasons.

Hatched

99 before the Sun Crown

Current age

186 seasons