"That's how The Ascension works, one crown, four kingdoms."
Book 1: The Queen in the South
Becoming the queen she never thought she could be.
Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess