Blue Boots in Songs of Love and Death, SPOILERS for everything

[Mervi]

Agreed on Kettricken being different, but I'm placing this story in my head even further along in the future, to a time when either Dutiful or even Prosper is the ruler. Which would make the queen ... well, Elliania or some future wife of Prosper we haven't met yet. BUT I have to stress that there's nothing concrete in the story that would help us place it in the timeline - for all we know this could be before Fitz' time! (However, if one takes the wild leap and assumes Just is the same Just, even with all the evidence stating he can't be... it WOULD make sense that the Farseer family is visiting his keep. However, even with Kettricken and Dutiful's humble ways, I would think the folks in the keep would have reacted to actual royalty visiting in a more notable manner. So I'm just assuming it's either author's error or the young Timbal being overly impressed by her new surroundings.)