User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-43908-20150311013943/@comment-1506468-20150914173405

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-43908-20150311013943/@comment-1506468-20150914173405 The bit I was remembering (It's been 10 years since I've read The Ancestor Cell) was where the Doctor notes the change in Romana, going so far as to say the Romana he knew had died. I recalled that the Doctor then makes references to Romana's direct predecessor, when in fact they both begin to talk about Romana I. There is reference to Romana being in office for 150 years by this point, but that's all it actually gives. So yeah, there actually is nothing saying that the War Queen Romana is Romana III, which really further supports a one page article.

Going back to Trey, again there is nothing in-universe directly specifying that she is Romana III either. The more recent argument for Trey being Romana III in this thread comes from what Romana II says in Renaissance, leaving out the fact that Romana II would have as much idea as us what Romana III would look like.

So in conclusion, neither Romana actually has any in-universe claim over the title of Romana III. The most accurate we can be (the remit of this wiki, I might add) is to include each Romana on the main Romana article under headings such as "Trey" and "As War Queen of Gallifrey" or similar. That way we are attributing neither to being Romana III, whilst still remaining as objective as possible to what the stories tell us.