The embroidery teacher step in few minutes after Ellen.The room was filled with only the daughters of the noble and they were being taught how to carry themselves with grace and elegance as everyone in the room would be married to important figures in the society.

They were taught how to be noble wives and madams in the near future. Ellen could not concentrate in anything that was taught in class. Her mind kept playing around Regina's voice.

"I am not your mother"

"I am not your mother."

" I am not your mother"

"Is it actually possible that she is not my mother?" Ellen kept wondering in her mind .

"If the Queen is not my mother, then where is my mother? Who is she?" Ellen couldn't help her thoughts.Her heart miss a beat when she thought of the possibility of being an ilegetimate child.

"could that be the reason the Queen treated me so unfairly?" She asked herself. She thought of several possibilities but she could not figure it out.

After thinking about the situation for almost the entire day, her head began to hurt from thinking too hard. In the end she decided to ask her father about it. After all he should know.

Days passed and Ellen could not bring herself to ask her father. She thought of several ways to bring up the topic, or excuse to why she was asking without relating it to the Queen but she could not.

So one night she decided to asked her maid about it. "where is my mother?" she asked while the maid was helping her get ready for bed.

"in her chambers your highness" the maid replied politely.

"I mean my biological mother" Ellen took the courage to ask. From the mirror she noticed that the maid became stiff for a couple of minutes before she smiled and acted dumb.

"Don't try to act smart or I will get you into trouble," Ellen threatened when she saw the maid was about to open her mouth and lie.

"I.. I... I" the maid could not find her voice. She knew that the princess was already aware that she knew something. She did, after all she was already working in the Palace when the formal Queen died. But the king has made a decree that no one was allowed to talk about the dead Queen.

"Your highness please take pity on this old maid and spare her. The the thing about my princess mother can only be told to her by the king," the maid pleaded.

"No, my father is not willing to tell me. Besides I am afraid to ask. So you would tell your princess what you know, " Ellen demanded.

"No my princess, I can not go against the king's command, he would have me executed," the old maid answered politely.

"Okay, then you should get ready to be executed because I am going to tell my father that you told me that Queen Regina is not my mother, " Ellen threatened. In reality she had no plans to get the maid into trouble but she was desperate for answers, so she decided to threaten the maid.

"My princess I never said that," the mind replied bowing her head and praying that someone would come and save her. She understood the princess character, so she knew that Ellen never makes empty threats.

" Are you calling me a liar, " Ellen demanded when she heard the maids answer.

" No my princess, I dare not call you a liar ." The maid said still bowing her head sweating profusely because she was at lost of what to do.

"Tell me what you know, I promise my father will not hear a word of it or I will carry out my threats, " Ellen said calmly when she saw the poor state of the maid.

Having no other choice the poor maid told Ellen how her mother the formal Queen die when giving birth to her.

After Ellen got the information from her maid she demise her and cried herself to sleep.

She no longer bother herself about pleasing the Queen, since she understood that there was nothing she could do that the queen will acknowledge, so she avoided her as much as possible.

After all it was a known tale, how step mothers were vicious. She endure what ever the queen and her children throw at her. Strangly neither the queen or the king noticed that princess Ellen stop referring to the Queen as mother. Instead she called her your highness.

This went on until there was an invasion on prince William twelve birthday party. A war broke out between Ellen's kingdom and Avalo their ememy for many generations.

In this time the king was very busy and was rearly in the palace. Queen Regina took the opportunity to become even more unbearable to Ellen. She did not let her join the safe chamber of the noble women, when they needed to hide. So she was forced to stay with commoners.

In the Queen's mind the present of Ellen will over shadow her daughter. She intended to use the opportunity to make her daughter shine among the noble women. After all Ema was already a young lady and she hoped to find a suitable family for her to marry into.

Unfortunately for her, the king returned from the war to see how his family and kingdom is fairing . He was not pleased when he realized that princess Ellen was missing. Queen Regina was not going to let Ellen ruin her chances. She hard to be smart to find a convincing reason why Ellen was absent in the chamber . She hesitantly told the king that Ellen has been acting recklessly and will not listen to her in the past months of the war.

The king immediately summoned Ellen to be brought to him , maybe because of the war at hand or the fact that he trusted Regina blindly, he did not listen to the explanation Ellen tried to offer.

As punishment he sent her to the injury camp. "Since you want to spend time outside the Palace with commoners so much, you should at least be useful," the king's voice rang in the hall. Ellen looked at her father disbelief written all over her face. How could her father punish her without even allowing her to explain herself.

Queen Regina was very happy, when she heard the king. She even secretly visited the grand measter asking him to make things difficult for the princess.

Fortunately the grand measter was an honest man, who took pride in his reputation more than benifits. So he still treated her nicely beside she was very loveable. So all the physicians and even the injured loved her.

Contrary to the result that Queen Regina expected, the poeple began to praise Ellen as the princess of the poeple. In fact words began to go round that the princess was the preferred leader.

Even though the physician knew that the princess was helping because the king order her to, they still choose to remain quiet and allow the news about the princess kind gesture to spread round the kingdom. Besides she deserves the praise because she learned deligently and help whenever she could without complaining. People even started mocking the prince for hiding behind his mother's skirt. A lot of people admire her and called her brave for staying strong even after seeing so much blood. After all a woman is view as delicate and should not be in a place like the injured camp.

This words going round really annoyed the Queen but she could do nothing about it. After all the people where singing the praise so loud that even the king heard of it.

Though she succeeded in making her daughter friends with many noble daughters but the noble where the few and the commoners where the many.

Moreover even the noble where full of hypocrite. Ellen was seen as a hero for helping injured soldiers beside the sons of the nobles also went for this war. So they naturally supported the winning side. So even in the noble chamber, Many young heir and madams praise princess Ellen.

Queen Regina could only gritted her teeth in anger silently and joined in the paise.

The war continues for three years. Bozao, Ellen's kingdom were at lost.. Many of their soldiers died in the battle and they were at the verge of losing the war, It was the time Avalo decided to offer a bit of compromise and offer a trace that was to be sealed with a marriage .