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What's are in Susan's Royal Chambers?

Throughout most of the books, Susan is seen as a mature, thoughtful, and motherly figure towards her younger siblings, Edmund and Lucy, to the point of which they become quite fed up with her constant corrections and mannerisms. She also serves as a typical younger sister to Peter, counteracting and challenging many of his opinions and authorities, but also respecting him to some extent. Susan gains the title "Queen Susan the Gentle" because of her motherly and considerate persona, but her obsession with maturity and reality caused her to distance herself from all Narnia related events. Therefore, she is the only one not killed in the railway accident, and doesn't return to Narnia with the rest of her family and friends.

Based on Susan's personality and her role in the novels, films and related media, here's what I might expect to find in her "royal chambers" at Cair Paravel

*Susan appears to be a passionate and caring young woman, so I feel lavender will be quite a common colour theme throughout her room. Purple is a colour usually used to represent passion, maturity, kindness and sophistication, which can all be found in Susan's personality. So, I picture light lavender drapes, deep purple bed sheets, a mauve carpet, and a mixture of warm colours for other fabricated pieces of furniture, such as couches, armchairs, footrests etc.

*Susan is always trying to use "logic" and intelligence to solve every situation, but it's not always beneficial. In the movie rendition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Susan's idea of "fun" is playing the dictionary game, in which she asks her siblings to define a foreign word from the dictionary. However, they find this rather boring, specifically Peter and Edmund. In Susan's room, I picture shelves along the walls carrying loads upon loads of books. Not fantasy novels, because she considers herself too old for those, but educational books about History, Science, Mathematics, Languages, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias.

*In the final chapter of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lewis states that Susan has grown to be a beautiful and noble queen, causing her to receive many marriage requests in the form of letters from kings far and wide. However, she never accepted these requests, but may have replied to them. I imagine there will be a desk where Susan might read her requests, and sometimes reply. Of course, they would be written with a quill and ink, so I picture a fragile ink well next to her mass of letters, with a feathered quill resting in it.

*It has been mentioned quite often that Susan is a talented and renowned archer. I picture her quiver of arrows in a treasure chest beside her bed, and her bow laying right beside it. Along with this would be Susan's enchanted horn, which is equipped to bring help to the user's side.

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