Anirul Corrino

Lady Anirul Sadow-Tonkin Corrino is a fictional character and member of House Corrino in the ''Dune'' universe created by Frank Herbert. A Bene Gesserit of Hidden Rank and wife of the 81st Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, Anirul is the mother of Princess Irulan and Princess Wensicia and the grandmother of Farad'n Corrino. Anirul is referred to only twice in the 1965 novel Dune, but is a major character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999-2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. In Dune: House Atreides, she is described as having "short bronze-brown hair," and it is said that her "features were long and narrow, giving her a doelike face, but her large eyes had a depth of millennia in them." She had taken her name from the first Bene Gesserit Mother Superior, Raquella Berto-Anirul. In her epigraph in Dune, Irulan reveals that her mother had been instructed by her Bene Gesserit superiors to produce only daughters for Shaddam, therefore leaving him no male heir.... full article at wikipedia