- [?] I was re-reading L. E. Modesitt's Spellsong Cycle, which spoiler alert involves a regency and a relatively spoiled heir whose reign goes pretty poorly despite the best attempts of the regents, and it got me to thinking about how hard it must be to raise a future king under the best of circumstances, much less with a regency. Do y'all know of any instances where a regency ended smoothly, with a competent leader taking over without any sort of major crises during the handoff? Medieval history isn't my baliwick normally so I'm woefully underinformed about possibilities. - Asked about [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1446222156841435171) * Countess Marie of Champagne: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15880.html * Emma Savior of Orange: https://www.escherinhetpaleis.nl/exhibition/emma-savior-of-orange/?lang=en mother of Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina who ruled well by all accounts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina_of_the_Netherlands