Spoiler: Alexander's mother backstory
It's all Duncan's fault (Alexander's father),in the third volume Alexander received his mother's diary, which explained what's really happened between Duncan and her. At the beginning, his mother actually loved Duncan very much and was happy to be lucky enough to get married t him (Duncan was very popular with women too), but Duncan saw her much like a conveniance marriage and was cold with her by letting stay alone even during their honeymoon and staying away most of the time. Nonetheless,Sophia didn't lost hope and she thought that a child would bring them closer.She wanted to have a lot of children but Duncan wanted only one, a son for succession. But at that time Sophie actually was pregnant with a girl (yeah Alexander had an older sister ), and she paid the doctor to hide the gender to Duncan in order to not disappoint him. She thought that giving him the son he wanted would make him pay more attention to her and actually he did and would eat with her. She was happy until the baby was born. She didn't get the chance to hold or see her child since was uncoscious for 3 days, and when eventually she woke up, she learned that Duncan ahd killed their baby. For this reason, she became distressed and hateful with Duncan. A year later, Sophie became pregnant again with Alexander this time, but she didn't want this child because she didn't want to give Duncan the son he wanted.So she kept on praying for the child to not be born. But when she saw her son and how lovely he was ,she couldn't kill him instead she swore to protect her child this time. But slowly as Alexander grow up, he was loooking like more Duncan so she started to resent Alexander. In her mind she started to think that Alexander was not her child and that Duncan has taken away again her baby boy. During birth she wanted to name her son Allen but at the end Duncan named him Alexander, so she thought Allen and Alexander were two different people. Sophie kept saying how much she wanted to find Lena ( her baby daughter) and Allen. The day then she tried to kill Alexander and was push out of the window, she was not in her right mind and thought Alexander was not Allen. That's what happened and Alexander after reading her diary was hapy to know his mother actually loved him, and this made also him confess to Chloe.
Spoiler: Politics in the kingdom
About the fact if it gets better in terms of justice in the kingdom, i actually don't know..... i've not still finished the novel and i'm actually using MTL to read it so i can't give you a lot of information about that, sorry...... but i think the fact that they lived a certain amount of period as a commoner especially Alexander made him realize the inequality in the kingdom about taxes i think ( take my words with a pinch of salt in this matter) overall, the novel seems to focus more about the growing romance in the first volumes.
Spoiler: Red haired douchebag guy
He ends up with Alexander's fiancè, that was a surprise i actually wanted him dead, but later on in the fouth volumes he met again Alexander and once he saw Chloe he immediately knew she was princess Beatrice and felt very remorsefu.
Also the father (duncan) finds religion and is forgiven and apparently everyone co with it. Choose asks him to end slavery and he agrees. Buh who knew it was that easy. Sorry people who died fo that pls forgive him. Hes religous now/s