Unnamed European Princesses

These "heiresses to European thrones" appear only inside a quasi-Homeric or mock-heroic simile when the narrator compares Willy Ingrum, who moves to Jefferson from Beat Four, marries "a town girl," and becomes the "town marshal," to the "petty Germanic princelings [who] come down out of their Brandenburg hills to marry the heiresses to European thrones" (133). It's not clear if Faulkner is thinking of specific members of European royalty.