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@anne_the_noob14 There are two different “summaries” you’ll need for your book. The shorter one’s usually called an elevator pitch, which is the quick thing you tell people so they know what you’re book’s about in a few seconds, and the second is called a blurb, which is what you put on the back of your cover/on your Amazon page.

I’ve been advised that a good elevator pitch distills genre and tone and hook rather than describing the narrative. Like, “Star Wars meets Jaws with flying carpets and plucky orphans in post-apocalyptic Rhode Island.”

What you have in the OP is closer to a blurb, and there are some great resources out there on writing them. I’m terrible at them myself but I see this guide referenced a lot: https://blog.reedsy.com/write-blurb-novel/

The only critique I feel I could give is I think the blurb should focus on the dramatic question the protagonist faces, and throw out bits like the name of the province and his specific age. Why does he specfically want to put a new king in power, how will he do it, and what is at stake if he fails? You ask “will he fail?” Without telling us what that means or why we care.