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A Royal Courtly Fable – Part 1

This is the Queen’s True Story – Written as a Fantasy

Part one

Once upon a time there was a lady fair with hair of golden red that doth wondered about a most beautiful realm. In her realm she doth reside with her Royal parents and her wicked brother. Of course all brothers are wicked to their sisters.

The Queen mother was said to be a “Class In Her Own Time”, and this doth enchant the young princess. Most of her young life this princess doth notice that she looks much like the Queen mother. During her early years the young Princess only hopes that she too can stay as ageless and timeless as her mother hath done.

The King, the hath flown the sky on Dragons wings during the time the princess hath grown up. During the times that he doth rest his magnificent silver beast he doth spent time with the family. And at times his doth lovingly spoil the princess with his full attention. Both her parents hath taught the young princess many things in her young life. First and foremost, how to love and respect others.

But then sneaking around the realm was that older brother of hers. He was always getting the princess in trouble with the King and Queen. Once such time the Prince doth thought of himself a wizard. Well, he still thinks himself a “Magicman”. He hath gotten a hold of the Queens magic face adornments and mystical perfumes and proceeded to mix them up. Hark he hears a commotion just a short distance away. He doth sneak away to the bed chambers, leaving behind all evidence of what he hath done. A short time later, the King and Queen doth awaken the Prince and Princess. They were told to follow them, and on the way the Prince told his sister, “Tell them thou did it, or else!”

Well the Princess spoke up and lied. She did so, as she was more scare of the Prince Brother than the hand of the King. But fear not the Princess doth got her own back at the Prince. Later, years later, the Princess confided to the Queen Mother that most things she doth claim to do, was not herself, but in fact the Prince’s deeds. The Queen doth believed her and for a long time after that, the Prince’s deeds and the ones the Princess really did, were the Prince’s responsibility.

Continued in Part Two

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A Royal Courtly Fable – Part 2

This is the Queen’s True Story – Written as a Fantasy

Part two

During the years to come in the Magical Realm things started to crumb apart.  All that was the Princesses happy life, started to fall apart. The King and Queen came upon troubled times and were soon parted. 

The Princess was heartbroken as she thought at that time she was the cause of it all and because she was still young and knew no better. The Princess had witnessed a deed and when she proclaimed it must be mended it seemed as if that was the beginning of the end of this realm.  Shortly after it was proclaimed by the Queen that the Prince and Princess were to go with the King to a far of land leaving the Queen behind.

 While in this far off land the Princess started her search, but she doth not know what she was in search of.  As she was still in her teens she doth not know her own self yet. She wanted to find the love that she felt when she was younger, but she doth looked in the wrong places. She doth became a wild one for a time.

At first the Princess was just wild, and then she got wild about jousting Knights and ran into this first Knight. During one such joust there came along this Knight with his red flaming hair.  The Princess hath dubbed him “Sir Red”.  Sir Red doth ask to court the Princess.

At that time thou would have seen the Princess taken to several the ball dances where she doth dance the night away. This was a time of merriment and fun. Later in time there were plans made to wed, but the King put his foot down and soon put a stop to this, as the King felt his princess was to young to even think about such things at her age.

Later the parents of Sir Red were taken by dragons to another realm. The dragons also took the Knight with them far away across the great seas.  All seemed lost for the Princess, or so it seems, but that will be revealed later in this fable.

Continued in Part Three

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A Royal Courtly Fable – Part 5

This is the Queen’s True Story – Written as a Fantasy

Part five

A few years later, who doth ride his gallant horse back into the Queen’s life?? It was none other than the First Prince “Sir Red”.  The queen resisted his advances at first and kept telling him she did not feel she loved him enough to marry him.  But he was a silver tongued knight and never relented.  After a time the queen gave up and let him into her life.  He flew her away on dragon wings to the land of Enchantment where the Excalibur was known to reside.  After a short ceremony they had a feast and attended the local joust. 

Time went by and even though the queen tried with all her heart to make things right, she always felt there was something terribly wrong.  Even though the Queen spent some happy years with her first Prince, she soon found out you can’t go back in time, and time had changed them both.  And as time goes on the Queen decided to bear her discontent for the children’s sake.

 By this time the Princess and Prince were much older and the Queen doth find it harder to know what to do to make her children’s lives better than her own. But the Queen hath been proud of them not matter what hath befall their lives.  Mistress Rebecca & Master Jon would soon be leaving the Queen for their own adventures in life. They will find it is a hard road, but they both know that whatever befalls them they have their Mother’s Love and Support and she will do whatever is in her power to help them on their roads they take.

Then suddenly one day the castle was raided and set afire.  The queen’s life was falling all around her.  She walked up to Sir Red and wanted nothing more than to be comforted and said, “What will we do?”  Sir Red replied, “Just Shut Up Wench” Right then the Queen could take no more and said “Off with his head”

The Queen took what little was left, which amounted to her children, some clothes then flew away on dragons wings.

Continued in Part Six

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A Royal Courtly Fable

The Queens Story – Written as a fantasy

This is one of those once upon a time stories, which happens to be true. This is a story that has its ups and downs as well as its good and it bad parts. May perhaps we should call it the never-ending-story as well, because as long as the author lives, then so does the fable.

All of her life, Lady Kathleen had dreamed of living in a long ago realm where there were Kings and Queens as well as friendly Dragons. And the lands were filled with Knights and Wizards.  Where she would live in a wonderful castle, now the castle did not have to be huge, just medieval style.  Of course the wars would be left to the men to fight if they must, but it would be my preference that there were no real wars, just more the friendly jousts and festivals.

Well this fable is the life span of Lady Kathleen, where the base of the fable is true, it has been fabled to make it enjoyable.

So let get on with this story by starting with part one.

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