i'm a bit confused by something I saw on the history of auradon post. Is south riding the kingdom whose prince was Phillip from Sleeping Beauty? And if it got merged with Corona under the Fitzherberts' rule, does this mean Aurora's kingdom, Solaria is also under their rule now? Are Aurora and Phillip ruling over anything at all?
[ 2/2 ] sorry, i was looking at the post againa and i just realised that Aurora and Phillip are in fact ruling over Solaria, so I get it now. Since I'm here though, can I ask for more background on Hubert's decizion to surrender South Riding to Frederic? Why didn't he just let Phillip in charge?
hi anon!!! thanks for the question! sorry for the delay in replying!!
okay, so this is probably going to be explained when i finally get to doing proper rundowns of each nation, i’m just way behind on that at the moment, oops!
as far as south riding is concerned, hubert didn’t make the decision, phillip did. south riding, corona and solaria were all neighbouring kingdoms, phillip was technically the heir to south riding, aurora to solaria (and rapunzel to corona). their union should, in theory, have been to unite those kingdoms. but with hubert still alive, he kept his control of south riding while stephen and leah stepped down and gave phillip and aurora control of solaria.
when hubert died, which is something i put in my timeline simply because hubert and stephen were already fairly old men when aurora and phillip were married, which was several years before the uniting of auradon, the kingdom was supposed to pass to phillip, but he didn’t want the extra pressure.
canonically, aurora is quite practical and sees one forty bedroomed castle as more than enough for anyone, so they didn’t want to add an entire extra kingdom to the one they already had so they conferred with frederic and ended up giving him the land instead, thus south riding and corona formed a single kingdom- under the caveat that it must stay named south riding to honour hubert’s memory. stephen and leah weren’t thrilled with this decision.
phillip and aurora are ruling over solaria, with stephen and leah having chosen to step down and enjoy retirement (but long after their children turned sixteen) and they are perfectly happy with their kingdom as it stands.












