Hannelore

Hannelore (ハンネローレ, Hanneroore) is an archduke candidate from Dunkelfelger and Lestilaut's younger sister.

Hannelore is a rather quiet looking girl with red eyes and light-pink, almost purple hair that she usually wears in two tails. She is small for her age, though still taller than Rozemyne.

Due to being reprimanded often during her strict upbringing, Hannelore is shy, timid and unconfident. When it comes to people relationship, she is constantly worrying about whether she has caused displeasure in other people, making her appear hesitant and apologetic. She is nervous around large gatherings of people, but can become quite animated when discussing books with Rozemyne. It appears that Hannelore likes to visit the Royal Academy Library in person, unlike most other archduke candidates who prefer to have their subordinates bring books to their rooms.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 5 As relatives of the king's third wife, Hannelore and her brother Lestilaut occasionally visisted her and her son Prince Hildebrand at their royal villa in the Sovereignty, but didn't form a particularly close relationship with the prince.

After the incident in which her older brother confronted Rozemyne rather over the possession of the magic tools Schwartz and Weiss, she writes a letter addressed to the Ehrenfest archduke candidates to arrange for a tea party to foster new connections. According to Hartmut's investigation though her real reason for this meeting is to apologize for her brother's rude behaviour.

At the tea party where Ehrenfest invited all other duchies at once, Hannelore was unable to bring up the situation with her brother, believing that with so many other people watching and listening it would not be the right time and place to discuss such matters. She did however manage to make friends with Rozemyne over their shared appreciation for books and the two promised to lend each other a book each. Unfortunately Rozemyne passed out from the excitement right after making that promise.

Hannelore, thinking that the collapse was her fault. None of Wilfrieds efforts to console her and tell her that it was not her fault had any success and thus he ended up walking her all the way back to her own dormitory and personally apologizing to her brother for the incident.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 5 In the Spring following Hannelore's first term at the Royal Academy, she and her brother were invited to Prince Hildebrand's baptism, alongside Eglantine.


 * Hannelore had an unnamed cameo during the court etiquette class in Part 4 Volume 1, in which she was admonished for not acting confident enough as an archduke candidate from a greater duchy.
 * Due to her red eyes, twin-tail hairstyle, small stature and timid behavior, Rozemyne thought she looks like a rabbit. Interestingly, Rozemyne herself was said to resemble Shumils, feybeasts that look very similar to rabbits.
 * A running gag with Hannelore is that she is always unfortunate with timing.
 * Among all characters introduced, Hannelore is one of the only two female nobles that tie their hair into two tails, the other being Philine. Coincidentally, both of them are book lovers that Rozemyne quickly became fond of.