Ned and Alice Wakefield

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Ned and Alice Wakefield are fictional characters who appear throughout the Sweet Valley book series. They are the parents of eldest son Steven and identical twin daughters, Elizabeth and Jessica.

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Edward Wakefield, a law student and Alice Robertson, an art student, met while while they were in college. Alice was engaged to Henry Patman, Bruce Patman's father, at the time. After meeting Ned, she realised that she did not love Henry, and stood him up at the altar. Ned and Alice married soon after. When the series began, they were said to have been married for twenty years.

Their first child, Steven Wakefield, was named after Ned's late college best friend. Shortly after Steven's birth, Ned became a parter at his law firm. Two years later, Alice gave birth to twin daughters, Elizabeth and Jessica, who were named after Alice's ancestors, Elisabeth and Jessamyn. They were the third set of identical twin girls in her family in six generations.

Their children grew into spitting images of their parents. Alice is often mistaken for the twin's older sister.

Ned is a common practice lawyer, and the head of a prominent practice in Sweet Valley. Alice works as an interior designer at one of Sweet Valley's major design firms.