Lewis was born into the Royal Household as the heir apparent in December 1858, a little less than a month after his father, Smith I, the first king of Sierra, assumed the newly established throne of the Kingdom of Sierra. In his youth, Lewis pursued a generalized education before attending The Presidio and served in the Royal Navy, acquiring a fascination with oceanography and boating. Witnessing much of Sierra's early development while Crown Prince, including the Sierran Civil War, the Second Industrial Revolution, and the rise of the Sierran empire, Lewis ascended the throne following his father's death in 1893. Under his reign, Sierra saw a profound change in society and culture, various reforms on civil liberties for minorities and the working class, child labor restricted, rapid urban