Queen Dowager
| Queen Dowager | |
| Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride | |
| Japanese name | ラインハット太后 |
| Romaji | Rainhatto taikō |
| Race | Human |
| Family | Wilbur (son) Harry (stepson) |
"That's right, my Wilbur would be a far more suitable successor to the throne than that naughty half-brother of his!"
—the Queen Consort, in Coburg Castle (DS, Cell phone)
The Queen Dowager, initially the Queen Consort, of Coburg is a character in Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride. She is the mother of Prince Wilbur and stepmother of Prince Harry.
Appearances[edit]
Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride[edit]
The Hero's father Pankraz is summoned to Coburg at a time of political tension, with the King's new wife the Queen Consort pushing for her son Wilbur to take the throne instead of Harry, the King's son with his first wife. Young Wilbur is resistant to the idea of ruling, but the Queen Consort hatches a plot to have young Harry kidnapped and sold into slavery to get him out of the way. Her plan seems to have gone off without a hitch, with Harry carried off by a band of thugs and sold to the Order of Zugzwang and the possible complication Pankraz dead, but the now-Queen Dowager quickly finds herself also a victim of the Order. She is secretly thrown into Coburg's dungeon and replaced by the Faux dowager, a monster that assumed her form. With Wilbur now ruling Coburg, the doppelganger Dowager pulled his strings and brought about an age of misery for the kingdom and its neighbors while the real Dowager languished in prison.
The true Queen Dowager is discovered many years later by the returning Prince Harry and the Hero, who managed to escape from enslavement. The Faux dowager is finally exposed with the power of Ra's mirror, and the true Queen Dowager, now truly regretful of her past actions, is restored to her true position, though her ambitious days seem to now be behind her.
The Queen Dowager does not appear in Coburg in Generation III, and her fate is not mentioned.
Trivia[edit]
- When speaking to the Queen Dowager and her doppelganger before testing them with Ra's mirror, Harry is convinced that the real one, who now speaks kindly, is the fake and vice versa.