Blog 6 - Fairytale

            Once upon a time, long, long ago, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella fell in love. After a romantic courtship the two lovers were happily married for several years and Queen Isabella gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.  Many years passed and she could not become pregnant again.  This worried the King, as he knew a son was necessary for his legacy to continue. The King waited patiently for a son; however, his expectations were never met and the people of the kingdom shared Ferdinand’s disappointment.

            After ten years of marriage, and no son, King Ferdinand was more than distressed about the demise of his legacy.  He needed to go outside his marriage to find a woman able to bear his son. Thus, Ferdinand impregnated a mistress named Maria. Ferdinand was still in love with Isabella. Maria became pregnant with the King’s first-born son. However, several months passed and news came that Queen Isabella had also become pregnant with a son. Ferdinand confused about the dual pregnancies showed love to Queen Isabella. Ferdinand did not acknowledge Maria’s son, William and Isabella’s second child, Diego, was acknowledged as Prince by the kingdom.

            The Mistress Maria was left poor and alone with her newborn fatherless son. A man in town, Jack, showed interest in Maria and she married him out of necessity.  Jack was mean and despised young William, as he was the son of anther man.  This made William harbor hatred toward Jack.  Years later, Maria dies and young William is left with his stepfather Jack. Jack falls into a deep depression after Maria passes and takes out his anger on William. William grows up being abused and mistreated by Jack. On William’s fifteenth birthday, he works up the courage to run away from home and escape his stepfather’s abuse.

            After traveling many miles, William encounters a farm in another kingdom owned by a young widow, Emma, and maintained by a farmhand, Leo. William is shown kindness by the farmhand. The widow accepts William as a new family member and invites him to stay. The widow cooks breakfast for William everyday, which reminds him of his deceased mother. William looks forward to his breakfast and becomes increasingly fond of Emma. William starts to notice that the widow is becoming progressively close with the farmhand and this makes him upset. One morning the widow forgets to make Williams breakfast and he realizes that she is with Leo.  This angers him, as he is jealous of Emma’s attention.  William tries to fight Leo; however, another King, Harold, arrives at the farm bringing with him a lovely daughter, Catherine.  William instantly falls in love with Princess Catherine who resembles his mother.  The two fall happily in love and William becomes Prince of Camelot, the kingdom next to Ferdinand’s Kingdom.  William and Catherine live happily ever after Prince William takes his rightful title as Prince.