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* BreakTheHaughty: Implied to have happened to the King as a result of his imprisonment. During his final conversation with Rassendyll, he implicitly acknowledges that Rassendyll made a better king than he did and vows to strive to live up to Rassendyll's example.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: While in a skirmish with some of the King's kidnappers, one of Rassendyll's fingers is grazed by a bullet. Once he realizes he's stuck impersonating the King for the foreseeable future, he uses the injury as an excuse to get out of writing anything, lest someone notice his handwriting doesn't match the King's.
* OccamsRazor: Exploited to the heroes' benefit when Rassendyll takes the King's place. Is it more likely that the King looks a bit different because he's an impostor, or because he shaved his beard? Does his handwriting look shaky because it's a forgery, or because his finger is injured? [[spoiler:When Rassendyll and the King later switch back, the King plans to stay out of sight for a few weeks and spread a story about being ill, as well as re-growing his beard, which will readily explain away any differences once he returns to the public eye.]]
* OhCrap: Sapt and Fritz have this reaction when they realize the King has been drugged and won't make it to his coronation. When Sapt decides the solution is to have Rassendyll take the King's place, Rassendyll has this response himself.
* OhCrap: Sapt and Fritz have this reaction when they realize the King has been drugged and won't make it to his coronation. When Sapt decides the solution is to have Rassendyll take the King's place, Rassendyll has this response himself.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: ''Guess.''
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: ''Guess.'''' [[spoiler:Black Michael is fatally wounded by Rupert of Hentazu after the latter tries to rape Antoinette and Michael steps in to defend her honor.]]
* RefugeInAudacity: Briefly discussed; Rassendyll privately notes at one point that, his IdenticalStranger status aside, most people are likely falling for his deception simply because they think no one would really try to blatantly impersonate the King.
* RefugeInAudacity: Briefly discussed; Rassendyll privately notes at one point that, his IdenticalStranger status aside, most people are likely falling for his deception simply because they think no one would really try to blatantly impersonate the King.
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* BastardBastard: Played with. Black Michael is King Rudolf's half-brother via their father's second marriage; however, because the marriage was morgantic[[note]]a type of marriage where the wife couldn't use her husband's title and coat of arms and her children could only inherit money and property she brought into the marriage as dowry; typically used by Germanic nobles who married below their social class or in their second marriages to keep estates from being split between too many heirs[[/note]] Michael is excluded from the line of succession. He's also the BigBad and spends most of the book scheming to get the King and later Rassendyll out of the way so he can claim the throne and marry Princess Flavia.
* GreenEyedMonster: One of Black Michael's motivations for kidnapping the King is that they are rivals for Flavia's affections. Later, Antoinette sabotages Michael's plot because she's in love with him and knows he'll marry Flavia if it succeeds.
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RoyalBlood: Rudolf Rassendyll has this, thanks to an affair a previous king of Ruritania had with one of his ancestors. Rudolf happens to have inherited both the telltale red hair of the Ruritanian royal family and the "Elphburg nose," distinctive traits which give him an [[IdenticalStranger uncanny resemblance]] to the current King.
*RoyallyScrewedUpRoyallyScrewedUp: King Rudolf and Black Michael are half-brothers, and they have issues. Michal's ambition leads him to drug the King on the eve of his coronation in an effort to cause a scandal and have him ousted; when that fails thanks to Rassendyll stepping in, he kidnaps the King and holds him prisoner for months, and as Rassendyll discovers, Michael doesn't take many pains to see that his half-brother is well-treated.
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* SuccessionCrisisSuccessionCrisis: Michael's initial plot is to cause one of these by making King Rudolf miss his coronation, making the public lose faith in him and resist any future attempts to crown him. Michael would then be free to present himself as an alternative ([[VillainWithGoodPublicity and much more popular]]) candidate and be crowned in Rudolf's place. After Rassendyll [[SpannerInTheWorks throws a wrench into that plan]], Michael is forced to abandon this idea.
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Princess Flavia, in this case. In the three best-known film versions, Flavia was played by blonde EnglishRose Creator/MadeleineCarroll in 1937 (a B&W film, so it didn't matter so much if her hair was the wrong color), Creator/DeborahKerr, who was an authentic redhead, in the 1952 color version, and Lynne Frederick in 1979, who had her hair dyed red for the role.
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* AffectionateParody: Creator/PeterSellers' movie version, released in 1979, is a spoof of the novel, with Sellers - of course - playing both King Rudolf (a womanizing man-about-town in this version) and British Rudolf (a London hansom-cab driver), tracking the events of the book fairly closely, though the original BittersweetEnding is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that [[spoiler:British Rudolf does indeed win Princess Flavia's love, while King Rudolf ends the movie with the sexy blonde countess he's been lusting after from the beginning.]]
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* AffectionateParody: Creator/PeterSellers' movie version, released in 1979, is a spoof of the novel, with Sellers - of course - playing both King Rudolf (a womanizing man-about-town in this version) and British Rudolf (a London hansom-cab driver), tracking the events of the book fairly closely, though the original BittersweetEnding is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] {{Subverted|Trope}} in that [[spoiler:British Rudolf does indeed win Princess Flavia's love, while King Rudolf ends the movie with the sexy blonde countess he's been lusting after from the beginning.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: King Rudolf is rescued and Michael is dead, but Rupert has escaped and Rudolf and Flavia can't be together. [[spoiler:SubvertedTrope Subverted thoroughly in the Sellers 1979 movie, where British Rudolf ends up becoming the actual king, winning Princess Flavia's love and marrying her in the process, while the real King Rudolf, who never wanted the throne in the first place, goes off to London to live it up with the beautiful blonde countess he met at the start of the film and lusted eagerly after therefore.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: King Rudolf is rescued and Michael is dead, but Rupert has escaped and Rudolf and Flavia can't be together. [[spoiler:SubvertedTrope Subverted [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} thoroughly in the Sellers 1979 movie, where British Rudolf ends up becoming the actual king, winning Princess Flavia's love and marrying her in the process, while the real King Rudolf, who never wanted the throne in the first place, goes off to London to live it up with the beautiful blonde countess he met at the start of the film and lusted eagerly after therefore.]]
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Rudolf doesn't get Flavia. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in Creator/PeterSellers' comic 1979 film version, where not only does Rudolf get Flavia (played by Sellers' wife Lynne Frederick), but King Rudolf gets the woman he really wanted all along, a sexy countess played by Elke Sommer.]]
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Rudolf doesn't get Flavia. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} in Creator/PeterSellers' comic 1979 film version, where not only does Rudolf get Flavia (played by Sellers' wife Lynne Frederick), but King Rudolf gets the woman he really wanted all along, a sexy countess played by Elke Sommer.]]
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Princess Flavia, in this case.
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Princess Flavia, in this case. In the three best-known film versions, Flavia was played by blonde EnglishRose Creator/MadeleineCarroll in 1937 (a B&W film, so it didn't matter so much if her hair was the wrong color), Creator/DeborahKerr, who was an authentic redhead, in the 1952 color version, and Lynne Frederick in 1979, who had her hair dyed red for the role.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: At one point, Sapt tells Rudolf (Rassendyll) that he must make love to Princess Flavia that very night. By which, of course, he means flirt with her, so she won't feel like she's been rejected since he hasn't proposed yet.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: At one point, Sapt tells Rudolf (Rassendyll) that he must make love to Princess Flavia that very night. By which, of course, he means flirt with her, so she won't feel like she's been rejected since he hasn't proposed yet. The term "to make love" didn't really begin to mean "to have sex" until the 1920's; before that, from the time when it came into the language in the 1500's, it simply meant to behave amorously toward someone, which could be as mild as holding hands or talking flirtatiously (it was most often used to indicate verbal wooing).
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* BittersweetEnding: King Rudolf is rescued and Michael is dead, but Rupert has escaped and Rudolf and Flavia can't be together.
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* BittersweetEnding: King Rudolf is rescued and Michael is dead, but Rupert has escaped and Rudolf and Flavia can't be together. [[spoiler:SubvertedTrope Subverted thoroughly in the Sellers 1979 movie, where British Rudolf ends up becoming the actual king, winning Princess Flavia's love and marrying her in the process, while the real King Rudolf, who never wanted the throne in the first place, goes off to London to live it up with the beautiful blonde countess he met at the start of the film and lusted eagerly after therefore.]]
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* AffectionateParody: Creator/PeterSellers' movie version, released in 1979, is a spoof of the novel, with Sellers - of course - playing both King Rudolf (a womanizing man-about-town in this version) and British Rudolf (a London hansom-cab driver), tracking the events of the book fairly closely, though the original BittersweetEnding is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that [[spoiler:British Rudolf does indeed win Princess Flavia's love, while King Rudolf ends the movie with the sexy blonde countess he's been lusting after from the beginning.]]
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: In the 1979 movie, PlayedForLaughs, culminating in the doddering old bishop's dropping "King" Rudolf's orb of state, which knocks over a triangle of candles bowling-style.
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Rudolf doesn't get Flavia.
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Rudolf doesn't get Flavia. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in Creator/PeterSellers' comic 1979 film version, where not only does Rudolf get Flavia (played by Sellers' wife Lynne Frederick), but King Rudolf gets the woman he really wanted all along, a sexy countess played by Elke Sommer.]]
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* The 1979 film version is a comic vehicle for [[LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles Peter Sellers]]. It's regarded as one of his weakest films, and when Peter saw it he said to the producers: [[TakeThat "I have only one comment to make - my lawyers will be in touch with you."]]
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* The 1979 film version is a comic vehicle for [[LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles Peter Sellers]]. It's regarded as one of his weakest films, and when Peter saw it he said to the producers: [[TakeThat "I have only one comment to make - my lawyers will be in touch with you."]]Creator/PeterSellers.
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* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Rupert and Black Michael's other minions, referred to in the story as "The Six".
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* PreferableImpersonator: Both Colonel Sapt and Marshal Strakencz declare the English Rudolf to be one of the finest of the Elphbergs and Princess Flavia unknowingly prefers him to her cousin.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Rupert and Black Michael's other minions, referred to in the story as "The Six".
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Rupert and Black Michael's other minions, referred to in the story as "The Six".
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* LastOfHisKind: Last Of Her Kind: By the final chapter, Flavia is the last Elphberg living.
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* LastOfHisKind: Last Of Her Kind: LastOfHerKind: By the final chapter, Flavia is the last Elphberg living.
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* HeroicBastard: Rudolf, the hero, is illegitimately related to the royal family of Ruritania. Black Michael is a "double bastard".
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* HeroicBastard: Rudolf, the hero, is illegitimately related to the royal family of Ruritania. Black Michael is a "double bastard"."[[BastardBastard double bastard]]".
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* ''Manga/VictorianRomanceEmma'' its plot and dialogue is used to parallel the romantic problems a character is having.
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* ''Manga/VictorianRomanceEmma'' ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'' its plot and dialogue is used to parallel the romantic problems a character is having.
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* LazyBum: Rudolf isn't a bad guy, and even has middling skill in things like languages and firearms- but he is completely opposed to any sort of work, something which irritates his more middle-class sister-in-law.
-->'''Rudolf:''' [[UpperClassTwit Our family doesn't need to do things.]]
-->'''Rudolf:''' [[UpperClassTwit Our family doesn't need to do things.]]
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Many men lose their reason completely over Osra. Particular notice to the painter Giraldo, who goes into a mad artistic frenzy over her, paints his finest portrait, and immediately collapses into a fatal fever.
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* TurnTheOtherCheek: When Count Nikolas slaps the Bishop across the face, the Bishop calmly turns his face and lets the Count hit him again. Then he points out: [[PreAssKickingOneLiner "I find nothing about the third blow in Holy Scripture."]]
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* TheBet: Prince Rudolf bets his friend that he cannot win three kisses from the Princess. Otto bets Christian that he cannot find a woman more beautiful than Otto's bride.
* HonorBeforeReason: Multiple characters choose death before dishonor, or death because of dishonor, usually for reasons having to do with Osra. [[spoiler: The silversmith is run through rather than let the king enter his home, the French fellow nearly kills himself after admitting his scheme to Osra, Harry convinces the new king *to* kill him to avoid dishonor to himself and Osra, Christian is almost hanged rather than use Osra's ring to call for aid, Count Nikolas says he would rather die than be revealed as a cheat...]]
* HonorBeforeReason: Multiple characters choose death before dishonor, or death because of dishonor, usually for reasons having to do with Osra. [[spoiler: The silversmith is run through rather than let the king enter his home, the French fellow nearly kills himself after admitting his scheme to Osra, Harry convinces the new king *to* kill him to avoid dishonor to himself and Osra, Christian is almost hanged rather than use Osra's ring to call for aid, Count Nikolas says he would rather die than be revealed as a cheat...]]
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* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Count Nikolas carries off Osra to force her to wed him (and stop her from revealing him as a cheat).
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* RuleOfThree: The silversmith swears he cannot love or marry another unless Princess Osra first rejects him three times. The French gentleman schemes to receive three kisses.
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* RuleOfThree: The silversmith swears he cannot love or marry another unless Princess Osra first rejects him three times. The French gentleman schemes to receive three kisses. The dice for the ownership of Zenda are thrown three times.
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!!''The Heart Of Princess Osra'' features examples of:
* RuleOfThree: The silversmith swears he cannot love or marry another unless Princess Osra first rejects him three times. The French gentleman schemes to receive three kisses.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Men have an unfortunate habit of falling madly in love with Osra and ruining their own lives because of it.
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* RuleOfThree: The silversmith swears he cannot love or marry another unless Princess Osra first rejects him three times. The French gentleman schemes to receive three kisses.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Men have an unfortunate habit of falling madly in love with Osra and ruining their own lives because of it.
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