# Prince Otto — Character guide

> Key figures in Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson.

- [Prince Otto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/prince_otto.md): Otto of Grünewald wears a crown he never learned to wield, preferring adventure, compliments, and the poetry of life to the dull machinery of rule. His vanity is easily tickled — a chancellor's flattery leaves him 'all r
- [Princess Seraphina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/princess_seraphina.md): Seraphina rules Grünewald in all but name, her husband's abdicated rights flowing into her hands while she surrounds herself with admirers and a prime minister who feeds her dreams. When a letter from Otto strips away th
- [Baron von Gondremark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/baron_gondremark.md): Gondremark is the power behind Grünewald's throne, a flatterer who winds his way into Otto's citadel with sneers about female intellect and compliments to the prince's self-respect. He is Seraphina's ally and would-be lo
- [Countess von Rosen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/countess_von_rosen.md): Madame von Rosen is the only entertaining woman on earth, by Otto's own laughing admission — a 'gem of many facets' whose beauty flashes like a weapon and whose low notes ring with tenor quality. She is in favour with th
- [Doctor Gotthold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/doctor_gotthold.md): Gotthold is the one voice in Grünewald that speaks to Otto without flattery or design, a scholar whose friendship survives the prince's follies and the court's intrigues. Where Gondremark winds and Seraphina schemes, Got
- [Sir John Crabtree](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/sir_john_crabtree.md): Sir John moves through Grünewald as a foreign observer, unbound by its etiquette and unimpressed by its scandals, seeing the comedy of unhappy marriages and flattering chancellors for what it is. His English plainness is
- [Fritz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/fritz.md): A loyal servant or attendant to Prince Otto.
- [Killian Gottesheim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/killian_gottesheim.md): An old farmer who encounters Prince Otto during his wanderings.
- [Herr Greisengesang](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/herr_greisengesang.md): A court official, often involved in administrative and political matters.
- [Ottilia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/ottilia.md): A young woman mentioned in relation to Killian's family.
- [Governor Gordon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/governor_gordon.md): Colonel Gordon serves as military governor in the tangled politics surrounding Prince Otto's throne, a professional soldier whose loyalties shift with the warrant he's handed. He meets his reversal of fortune not with bi
- [Kuno](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/kunno.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or courtier.
- [Herr Grafinski](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/herr_grafinski.md): A minor courtier or official.
- [Licentiate Roederer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/prince_otto_se/characters/licentiate_roederer.md): A legal or academic figure who appears in the story.

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