"Your relative? Who?"
"Grandmother Bertha."
Bertha... Arielle tried to remember who Grandmother Bertha was, but she couldn't remember the woman. She knew that Ronan had a great-grandmother named Bertha, but just it. If Arielle wasn't mistaken, from the book she had read, Grandmother Bertha had never visited the palace. Besides, Ronan had never introduced her to the woman.
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Ronan could see Arielle's insecurities. Perhaps the girl already knew who Grandmother Bertha was, but Arielle had never seen the woman before.
"She's the oldest member of the royal family who doesn't want to visit the palace?" asked Arielle, a little unsure about her guess.
"Oh, you know about her?"
"Yeah, while I was studying about the royal family tree, I saw her name and Lucas said that Grandmother Bertha was the second granddaughter of King Theodore, the first King of Northendell, and she was also the biological sister of the third king."
"That's right."
