Royalty stories
Crowns, courts and the people who get too close to them, from a masked king at Baker Street after dark to a stolen invitation to the royal ball. An idle Englishman asked at breakfast when he means to start doing something; a captain leaving his daughter at a London boarding school; a prince who reads lips and signs, and finds that you sign too; a sixteen-year-old heir who looks up to see the Queen of England halted beneath his oak.
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Romance of the Three KingdomsYou are Liu Bei, imperial blood, no soldiers, swearing brotherhood under peach blossom with a farmer and a fugitive.Ongoing · 120 chapters · About 5 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official
The Well at the World's EndYou play Ralph, youngest of King Peter's four sons, riding out from Upmeads after a Well whose water keeps youth.Ongoing · 75 chapters · About 2 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official
WaverleyYou play Captain Edward Waverley, a young dragoon whose leave in the Highlands is swallowed by the Jacobite rising of 1745.Ongoing · 70 chapters · About 2 hr 35 min published so farBy netfable official
The Duke's ChildrenYou are the Duke of Omnium, taking your orders from the Duchess's portrait in the long gallery while her sealed letter holds Mary to Frank Tregear.Ongoing · 65 chapters · About 3 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official
Crown PrinceYou match with Thierry Léon Weiss, crown prince of Montcerise, and pick up an acquaintance shaped by royal duty and old political history between your kingdoms.Complete · 57 chapters · About 3 hr 35 min totalBy Arthur York
The Tale of GenjiYou are Murasaki, the mountain child keeping the Shining Genji's house while he sits out exile at Suma.Ongoing · 54 chapters · About 2 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official
PharaohYou are Prince Ramses, halted on the road by two sacred scarabs while the priest Herhor watches.Ongoing · 50 chapters · About 2 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official
Quo VadisYou are Marcus Vinicius, a tribune just back from the eastern legions, and Lygia, a royal hostage, is neither slave nor daughter in Rome's law.Ongoing · 48 chapters · About 2 hr published so farBy netfable official
The Princess CasamassimaYou play Hyacinth, a bookbinder of Lomax Place, drawn from your bench into a princess's portico and a conspirators' public house.Ongoing · 48 chapters · About 2 hr 30 min published so farBy netfable official
Harold, the Last of the Saxon KingsYou are Harold, son of Godwin, the earl who holds England together while the Confessor prays.Ongoing · 46 chapters · About 1 hr 50 min published so farBy netfable official
Harold, the Last of the Saxon KingsYou are Harold, son of Godwin, the earl who holds England together while the Confessor prays and your brother Tostig goads the north.Ongoing · 46 chapters · About 2 hr 15 min published so farBy netfable official
The Adventures of Harry RichmondYou are Harry Richmond, raised by a Squire who locks your father's name in a drawer.Ongoing · 46 chapters · About 2 hr 30 min published so farBy netfable official
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtYou are Clarence, a page bringing a bound stranger his supper, sworn to his service on a handshake before an eclipse saves him from the stake.Ongoing · 44 chapters · About 2 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official
IvanhoeYou play Gurth the swineherd, a Saxon thrall in a brass collar who follows Wilfred of Ivanhoe into the tournament at Ashby.Ongoing · 44 chapters · About 2 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official
An Egyptian PrincessYou are Nitetis, a king's daughter of Egypt, sent to Cambyses for peace and accused by a forged line of ink you disprove from a tower.Ongoing · 42 chapters · About 2 hr 20 min published so farBy netfable official
The Ghost KingsYou are Rachel Dove, fifteen, when Richard Darrien pulls you from a flooded island and shares your vision of him bound to a tree.Ongoing · 40 chapters · About 2 hr 30 min published so farBy netfable official
The Golden BowlYou play Prince Amerigo, days from marrying Maggie Verver, when you and Charlotte Stant leave a gilded bowl unbought, a crack hidden under its gold.Ongoing · 40 chapters · About 2 hr published so farBy netfable official
The Valley of DecisionYou are Odo Valsecca, a fostered nine-year-old at Pontesordo, sharing crusts with the foundling Momola.Ongoing · 40 chapters · About 2 hr published so farBy netfable official
ValpergaYou play Castruccio, runaway Ghibelline heir turned lord of Lucca.Ongoing · 40 chapters · About 1 hr 50 min published so farBy netfable official
The Chaplet of PearlsYou are the Baron de Ribaumont, whose son of eight was married at Notre-Dame by Henri II's command to a bride of six.Ongoing · 38 chapters · About 2 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official
The Fair Maid of PerthYou are Simon Glover, glover of Perth, and the duke who wants your Catharine for his Valentine will not hear a tradesman's no.Ongoing · 36 chapters · About 1 hr 55 min published so farBy netfable official
The Tower of LondonYou are Jane Grey, sixteen, married into a plot you resisted and borne by barge to a Tower the city greets with silence.Ongoing · 36 chapters · About 1 hr 50 min published so farBy netfable official
The Prince and the PauperA returning soldier sees a ragged boy driven from a palace gate while insisting he is the prince.Ongoing · 33 chapters · About 1 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official
BothwellA new guardsman enters a Scottish court divided by rival powers and a dangerous jealousy.Ongoing · 32 chapters · About 1 hr 15 min published so farBy netfable official
OathboundShe assumes that swiping right means you are looking for a knight in shining armour, and she is not entirely wrong.Complete · 32 chapters · About 2 hr totalBy Amara Hollis
Your GraceYou get into the royal ball on a stolen invitation, two years after your father walked into the palace and never came out.Complete · 30 chapters · About 1 hr 40 min totalBy Elodie Ashby
The King's OwnYou play Willy, son of a sailor wrongly accused and swept into the Nore mutiny, then raised as ship's boy by Old Adams once both parents are gone.Ongoing · 30 chapters · About 1 hr 25 min published so farBy netfable official
The Mummy!In 2126, you are Edric, refusing the marriage your father has already announced to Rosabella, when Doctor Entwerfen offers something more interesting: an expedition to a sealed Egyptian chamber said to hold the perfectly preserved Cheops.Ongoing · 30 chapters · About 1 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official
SheYou are Holly, a Cambridge don who is handed a locked iron box and a five-year-old boy by a friend who dies before he can explain either.Ongoing · 28 chapters · About 1 hr 30 min published so farBy netfable official
The Children of the New ForestYou are Edward Beverley, eldest of four orphans at Arnwood, when the forester Jacob Armitage arrives with a warning: soldiers are coming to burn the house tonight for your father's loyalty to the King.Ongoing · 28 chapters · About 1 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official
Bellarion the FortunateYou are Bellarion, fresh from seventeen years in an abbey, riding toward Pavia with a friar guide when soldiers arrest you both over a cipher hidden in your letters.Ongoing · 24 chapters · About 1 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official
King Solomon's MinesYou are the hunter Quatermain, and aboard the Durban mail steamer, Sir Henry Curtis asks whether you have met his missing brother in the African interior.Ongoing · 23 chapters · About 1 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official
The Prisoner of ZendaAn idle Englishman is asked at breakfast when he intends to begin doing something.Complete · 22 chapters · About 1 hr 35 min totalBy netfable official
A Little PrincessA captain leaves his daughter at a London boarding school and sails back to India.Complete · 19 chapters · About 1 hr 10 min totalBy netfable official
A Scandal in BohemiaA masked king calls at Baker Street after dark: a photograph exists that could stop a royal wedding, and its owner will not sell.Complete · 18 chapters · About 59 min totalBy netfable official
Short KingHe messages you about Mango, and it takes several lines to establish that Mango is a corgi and that you are the wrong person entirely.Complete · 18 chapters · About 2 hr 40 min totalBy Sam Everett
The Silent PrinceHe tells you in the first message that he is mute, that he reads lips and signs, and it turns out you sign too.Complete · 18 chapters · About 48 min totalBy Gemma Ashford
Heir Apparent 2The distance is a problem, and he keeps being summoned away by a mother with rather more authority than most.Complete · 18 chapters · About 33 min totalBy Josie Warren
Crooked CrownYou match with a man claiming to be actual royalty — the prince from the tabloids, bored of stuffy formal events and hungry to let loose with someone who isn't chasing the crown.Complete · 17 chapters · About 56 min totalBy Alma Harper
A Knight of the White CrossYou are Sir Thomas Tresham, a Lancastrian gentleman sent from Amboise with no written commission to ready the west for Queen Margaret.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official
ArachneA sculptor returns home with a royal commission and unexpected pain in his eyes.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official
Beric the BritonYou are Beric of the Sarci, home from six years as a Roman hostage, looking down on Camalodunum with Boduoc.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 30 min published so farBy netfable official
Bonnie Prince CharlieYou are Malcolm Anderson, trooper of the fifteen, at your bailie brother's Glasgow door with Colonel Leslie's sleeping son.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official
Caesar's ColumnYou are Gabriel Weltstein, newly arrived in a 1988 New York of airships and magnetic light, where a hotel news-mirror shows hunger two blocks from your dinner.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official
CleopatraYou are Harmachis, a temple-raised priest who learns in one night that you are Egypt's hidden heir, sworn by oath and tested by a cobra that spares you at the altar.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official
Count Robert of ParisYou are Hereward, a northman asleep outside Constantinople's Golden Gate as a hired dagger begins its fall.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official
Friends, Though DividedYou are Harry Furness, a royalist's son, bound by a compact to Herbert, a Parliament man whose sister Lucy keeps you both honest.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official
In the King's NameYou are Hilary Leigh, sole midshipman of His Majesty's cutter Kestrel, chasing a deep-laden lugger off Shoreham.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official
In the Palace of the KingYou are Dolores de Mendoza, daughter of the captain of the palace guard, in love with Don John of Austria.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official
Little Lord FauntleroyYou are Cedric Errol, at home behind the counter of Mr Hobbs's New York grocery, debating lords and republics with your friend Dick, when a lawyer named Havisham arrives at your mother's door with sealed papers.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official
OrlandoYou are Orlando, sixteen, heir to a house of three hundred rooms, and the Queen of England has just halted beneath your oak.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official
Sant' IlarioYou are Anastase Gouache, painter and Papal Zouave, run down saving a runaway horse and carried into the Palazzo Montevarchi.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official
SaracinescaYou are Corona d'Astrardente, the young Duchess whose advice frees Giovanni Saracinesca from a marriage his father has priced.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official
St. George for EnglandYou are Geoffrey Ward, smith of Southwark, and a gentlewoman fleeing the crown's men leaves her boy Walter at your fire.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official
The AbbotYou are the Lady of Avenel, childless ten years, when your stag-hound tows a drowning boy from the lake.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official
The Boy KnightYou are Cuthbert de Lance, fifteen, son of a dead Norman father and the Saxon Lady Editha of Erstwood.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official
The Caged LionYou are Malcolm Stewart, lame young lord of Glenuskie, denied the cloister while your sister Lilias stays a prize for the Regent's schemes.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official
The Castle of OtrantoYou are the bride. The bells have rung over Otranto since morning, and the groom, Matilda's feverish brother Conrad, has not left his room.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official
The Children of the KingYou are Ruggiero, and the night your mother dies she binds you to your brother Bastianello with the words Children of the King.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 30 min published so farBy netfable official
The Dove in the Eagle's NestYou are Stina, a carver's niece from Ulm, sent by a long-absent father up the Eagle's Ladder to tend a dying girl in a robber castle.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official
The Duchesse of LangeaisParis society wagers on a desert-hardened general's encounter with the Duchesse de Langeais.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official
The EmperorAn imperial hunt puts a young spear-bearer in the path of danger and the emperor's attention.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official
The Fortunes of NigelYou are Jenkin Vincent, noisy apprentice at Ramsay's watch-shop in Fleet Street, where your jest at a blue feathered cap helps light a brawl.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official
The Heart of RomeYou are the Baroness Volterra, calling at Palazzo Conti for a charity signature on the morning all sixteen servants walk out.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official
The ImperialistYou play Lorne Murchison, growing up in small-town Elgin arguing over crackers and lacrosse tickets on the Queen's Birthday, and growing into a young lawyer sent to London as secretary to a Canadian trade deputation.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official
The King's SonsYou are Alfred, youngest of King Ethelwulf's four sons, taught bow and book while Danish ships land on the coast.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official
The Last of the BaronsYou are Marmaduke Nevile, a poor Nevile lodged above a stationer's in the Temple while your cousin Warwick makes and unmakes kings.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official
The Little Lame PrinceYou are the flower girl who sees the baby prince dropped at the marble stair, and who keeps watching when the court agrees to forget.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official
The Little Princess of Tower HillYou are Maggie Ascot, the Little Princess of Tower Hill, nearly eight and used to having every wish met.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official
The Princess and CurdieYou play Curdie, a year after defeating the goblins, careless enough now to shoot a white pigeon out of habit.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official
The Princess and the GoblinYou play Princess Irene, who finds a spinning-wheel tower and a great-great-grandmother nobody else in the castle admits exists.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official
The Rebel of the SchoolYou are Ruth Craven, Foundation girl at Great Shirley, wearing boots the Queen's set scorns while your Latin tops the form.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official
The Wild Irish Girl, son of the English earl whose family took these Connacht lands by conquest, sent to inspect an estate your father now regrets.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official
The World's DesireYou play Odysseus, home again to an Ithaca gone silent, its halls empty of Penelope and Telemachus alike.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official
Uncle BernacYou play Louis de Laval, put ashore alone on the French coast to answer your exiled family's only ally: an uncle promising restored standing under Napoleon, and an unsigned line warning you not to come.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official
Via CrucisYou are Lady Goda of Stoke Regis, waiting by the moat in 1145 for a husband your ally has twice tried to kill.Ongoing · 6 chapters · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official
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