Iria Fons Tasmeria

**Iria Fons Tasmeria** (アイーリャ・フォン・タスメリア) is the current Dowager Queen and the grandmother of Alfred, Edward, and Leticia.

## Personality

The Dowager Queen has an extremely strong political and social presence.

## History

Iria was once the Queen who dominated this Kingdom. This was because when her elder brother, the Crown Prince, died, she became the only direct descendant of the royal family. However, because it was unprecedented for a woman to take the throne, she married a Duke and had him assume the role of the King.

During Iria's reign, rather than the King, it was the Queen who appeared time and time again and acted as the organizer. Soon the misfortune for her to lose her husband as well, But still held the power despite being the woman, until her son ascend the throne. She slowly retired from politics and moved to Dowager palace.

Iria was fascinated by the beauty of Merellis Reiser Armelia and wanted to marry Merellis to her son. However, before any arrangements could be made, Merellis became engaged and had fallen in love with Louis de Armelia, son of then current Prime Minister, which disheartened Iria. As she didn't wish to cause any trouble for Merellis, she reluctantly gave up. However, she opened that if Merellis had a daughter, she might be able to get her to marry one of her future grandsons.

A few years later, she would learn that Merellis had given birth to a girl. The couple presented their first child, Iris Lana Armelia. Merellis couldn't help but think Iris looked exactly like her mother with the exception of her eyes. She decided then and there that she would do what she could to make Iris her granddaughter-in-law.

Sometime later, Iria became aware of the true nature of her the concubine of her son Ellia Marea, but she was unable to prevent her from being able to kill her first daughter-in-law. At the request of Dean, she took both him and his sister into the Dowager palace for safekeeping. She reduced the number of maids in her palace to prevent any assassination attempt on them. She also knew that there would be chaos in the future in-order to curb the growth of the aristocracy who may cur his favor.

While she acted neutral for the most part in regards to the battle for succession between the first and second prince's factions. If the first prince was a dimwit, she would abandon him and let the second prince to inherit the throne. If the second prince was flexible to the nobles than she would favor the first prince. Regardless, she tended to show more bias towards the first prince. Not only because she hid and raised them, but because the both of them proved their potential while her other grandson, Edward Tone Tasmeria was proving to be unworthy of his station.

Since the first prince proved himself and latter falter to his new fiance she tends to move towards her elder grandson. Day by day, she became an obstacle for the second prince faction. She was displeased with the expense made by the second prince faction which weighed the debt of the thirty years war.

Though she worded Iris to be engaged to the royal family with the intention of marrying her to first prince, Iris was engaged to Edward because of Iris's feelings for him. Iria was let down a little, but was still happy to have her in the royal lineage. Iria was shocked at the sudden annulment of Iris engagement and couldn't comprehend the reason for it or the reason foe immediate betrothal of Edward with Yuri Neuer which was readily accepted by Ellia. She was again disheartened by her objective being thwarted. She granted permission for Merellis to not to attend the new engagement ball and she too didn't attend the ball which made many question, if the ball was a success.

When she heard Alfred was frequently visiting Armelia territories, she was rejoiced at the possibility of them getting together and vow to not her wish let down again.

## Plot

### Volume 01

While Iria did not physically appear until the end of the Volume, she is mentioned multiple times, and it has been revealed she has been keeping tabs on both Iris' activities as well as her grandson Alfred who also goes by the alias of 'Dean'. At the end of the volume, she speaks with Alfred regarding his frequent trips to the Armelia territories which he brushes off. She is able to tell that Alfred is starting to become quite infatuated with the young acting governor. She decides that the upcoming social season would be the best time for Iris to be reintroduced to High Society.

Iria considered that if she wished for Iris to potentially marry her grandson, Iris' return to High Society would be necessary. She calculated the merits & demerits carefully. She understood bringing Iris back prematurely could result in her being made a laughingstock due to Edward previously breaking off the engagement along with the humiliation that she suffered that caused her to be blacklisted. After Iris successfully running the Dutchy of Armelia and establishing the successful Azuta Corporation that had become famous, Iria saw this as the golden opportunity.

The former queen personally sent an invitation to Iris to attend the foundation party event. Due to this being a royal invitation, Iris had no choice but to accept.

### Volume 02

When Iris is being harassed by Edward's group, Iria intervenes and makes it clear to Edward that Iris spoke the truth that she had indeed invited Iris to the Foundation Party event.

This will turn Edwards as a laughing stock for letting her go.

She succeeded in reintroducing Iris to the society which was seen by the number of invitation received by Iris after the party. Many want to establish relation with Iris, but Iris was dragged into the political conflict in much more serious situation than before.

She witnesses Iris prove her innocence at the excommunication hearing.

### Volume 03

She appears in a flashback when Alfred requests her help in protecting his sister.

### Volume 04

After Louis was attacked, she learnt that Ellia is going to take the throne by force. Her deduction became true when the king who was in recovering well suddenly couldn't last a month. After the king's death she remained firm in his funeral but her eyes were swallowing the sorrow. She quickly asked Alfred to leave the nation and do what is necessary. The queen dowager had been declared indecisive and ineffective in her policies that tried to address the lack of food. After the baseless accusation was raised again and again, she was forced into inactivity once more.

### Volume 05

She attends the wedding of Iris and Dean while proclaiming how happy she was much to Iris' confusion and Dean's annoyance.

## Relationships

### Merellis Reiser Armelia

She cared for her like she was her own daughter. She wished for Merellis to marry her own son, but she was unable to due to Merellis getting engaged.

### Iris Lana Armelia

She showed great favoritism towards her due to her resemblance to Merellis, but she also comes to respect Iris when she proves herself as a capable leader.

### Yuri Neuer

Due to Iris being removed from high society and Yuri gaining the favor of Edward's mother, Iria reluctantly allowed Edward and Yuri to become engaged. However, she was fine with letting Merellis skip the ceremony which caused a number of people to wonder if the event could even be considered a success without the flower of High Society attending it.