Thank you so much! I like to think that Richard is a lovely and charming fictional man, but sadly naming him Richard was not an intentional allusion to the Lionhearted on my part. I just wanted to give Susan's London boyfriend an ordinary, run of the mill sort of name, to further illustrate how uninteresting England is compared to Narnia and it's interestingly named people. But we should pretend that Richard's fictional parents had Richard the Lionhearted as a namesake.