Tolkien's Unfinished Tales has an heir who refuses the throne, something more common in real life than fiction. (It goes to the next heir in line.) Later on, the same story has one of the classic Bad Usurpers, who brings the entire kingdom crashing down, quite literally.
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Date: 2015-05-17 02:31 pm (UTC)