Is this a good character and conflict?

[Dave]

Choosing between being a queen or having a husband and family, is this a relevant or internal conflict for women today (choosing between a career or starting a family)?

A little background information, she's heir to the thrown, and if she does become queen she would be the first queen of Ardia. She currently enrolled in officer training at the kingdoms most elite military academy. Also another first, infact, in Ardia, there's never been a female soldier, her alone an officer (the military academy is part of a bigger university, so there are other women on campus but not on the military side). Needless to say many of her follow students, and most if not all of the schools staff, see her as a spoiled brat who doesn't belong. Even her own father, well proud of her, doesn't quite get or understand his daughters determination to be her own person. Oh, yes! Her name is Catherine.

[MerczMertz]

Yes, it sounds great!

[oli]

You've set up a nice power structure there with a segregated academy, which she then upsets with determination and resolve. This has a G.I Jane in the fantasy realm feel, and that's a very encouraging thing to see with all the late mysoginism of the Twilight series, to name but one abomination in the history of recent fiction. It's not however, a massive source of internal conflict in my mind, as I think women, like men, are capable of managing both a family and a career. If it is a source of conflict, then it's one experienced by both women and men. I have to say that I do feel that there are more pressing issues for women right now, such as how we still have a wage disparity and how social media is systematically destroying the work of every feminist movement we've ever seen.. But this has a great deal of potential.