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 realized 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 twins' older sister.

Ned is a common practice lawyer and the head of a prominent firm in Sweet Valley. Alice works as an interior designer at one of Sweet Valley's major design firms. Although they are comfortable, they aren't wealthy, and have no pretentions of becoming same. They are, however, close friends of Lila Fowler's family, having gotten to know them better after they housed the Wakefields after the earthquake that nearly destroyed Sweet Valley. Alice has two sisters, Nancy, who has a daughter named Jenny; and Laura, who also has a daughter named Kelly. Laura was divorced from Kelly's father, Greg Bates who had a violent temper and lashed out at her. Ned's parents live in Michigan, and he has a half-brother named Louis.


Sweet Valley High
Main Characters
Elizabeth Wakefield | Jessica Wakefield
Secondary Characters
Ned and Alice Wakefield | Steven Wakefield | Todd Wilkins | Enid Rollins | Lila Fowler | Winston Egbert | Ken Matthews | Caroline Pierce | Olivia Davidson | Penny Ayala | Roger Barrett Patman | Jeannie West | Sandra Bacon | Annie Whitman | Tom McKay | Lois Waller
Other Characters
Cara Walker | Amy Sutton | Jeffrey French | Nicholas Morrow | Regina Morrow | Suzanne Devlin | Abbie Richardson
Series Spinoffs
Sweet Valley Senior Year | Sweet Valley University
Sweet Valley High (TV series)
Episodes: Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4
Creators
Francine Pascal