In the book, it is implied that he is more mature than his siblings because after their father was called out to fight in the war, Peter's mother told him to support his three siblings through the ordeal of their father going away. He tries his best to protect his siblings and to act like a responsible young adult. Peter Pevensie in the 2005 film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.Ī loyal and devoted big brother figure, Peter is the eldest of the four siblings. By The Last Battle he is a 22-year-old university student with his heart still in Narnia, though he had not been there since Prince Caspian, when he was 14 years old. As a monarch of Narnia's Golden Age, he rules with his brother and sisters for 15 years, reaching the approximate age of 28 before returning to the age of 13 in England at the end of Wardrobe. Peter was born in 1927 and is 13 years old when he appears in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The surname 'Pevensie' does not actually appear in the Chronicles until the third published book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. In Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill (1907) at least one of the characters refers to Pevensey as 'England's Gate', which the celebrated wardrobe in Lewis's books quite literally becomes. Pevensey, on the southeast coast of England, is the site of a medieval castle that figures importantly in British history at several points. But it is most about Peter who was the youngest.' Peter is the only name that makes it into the final work, but as the oldest child instead of the youngest. Peter is illustrated by Pauline Baynes in the original novels with dark hair, but there are no specific descriptions of his hair or eye colour or complexion by Lewis.Īn early draft of The Lion begins, 'This book is about four children whose names were Ann, Martin, Rose, and Peter. Peter's reign in Narnia was a Tetrarchy ( Greek: 'leadership of four'), and as High King Peter the Magnificent, he had supreme authority over all subsequent Narnian monarchs. Peter is the eldest of the four Pevensie children and shares his adventures in Narnia with his sisters Susan and Lucy and with his brother Edmund. Noah Huntley portrays an older Peter at the end of the first film.

In Disney's live-action films, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter is portrayed by English actor William Moseley. He is only mentioned in The Horse and His Boy in which he is away on the northern frontier fighting giants and in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in which he is studying under the tutelage of Professor Kirke. Peter appears in three of the seven books as a child and a principal character in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, and as an adult in The Last Battle.

Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia book series. Peter Pevensie is a fictional character in C.

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