Queens And Conquerers

Isabel's Overthrow

Isabel was now fifteen years old and soon would be 16. Isabel had heard that Princess Bellisaria of France had already gotten the throne. Her mother gave it to her and went out to travel. Just a recap, Isabel's Father King Marcos was not giving up his throne until he died. He didn't think Isabel was going to be a worthy ruler of Spain. Isabel hadn't changed her ways from when she was a child. Everyone was still afraid of Princess Isabel since the stunt she pulled at her party when she was 4 years old. She asked for 4 volunteers,(another recap by the way)
all of different ages. An elderly man, a middle-aged woman, a teenage boy, and a little girl around Isabel's age. Now, the little girl (who was actually Isabel's exact same age at the time and is no longer a little girl, but a teenager) had actually become best friends with Isabel. The Princess doesn't consider the girl who's name was, Carmen Agusta Gabandalo, or as Isabel liked to call her "Carmee" a servant anymore. The girl has her own room and occasionally, the Princess would ask for Carmee to get something for her, but the two were most of the time inseparable! They had become like partners in crime. Isabel always said to Carmee "Carmee, when I become, Queen Isabel of Spain, you will be there with me as will be my royal best friend. Yes! That is why I shall call you!" Isabel spoke. If Isabel was going to be Queen, she was going to need to do it soon. Her 16th birthday was coming in a week and the Princess decided to make her "Pre-Birthday" assignment, to plot a plan with Carmee by her side helping her. She would be Queen by the night of her 16th birthday. She would not be beat by Queen Bellisaria of France. In fact Isabel made a note to herself, "when I become Queen the first thing I will do is challenge the WONDERFUL," "I thought you hated Bellisaria?" Interrupted Carmee "I do Carmee I'm being sarcastic... Anyways, I will challenge the WONDERFUL Queen Bellisaria of France. Train our troops to invade her land a take it! That girl won't even see it coming!"
So, Princess Isabel and her royal best-friend Carmee set off to go through the palace to find a room. They searched the whole palace and in case I forgot to mention it was the "Dalarcino Palace" it was the main castle where all the kings and queens lived. Other smaller estates are for Dukes and Duchesses and sometimes princes or princesses that aren't needed at the Dalarcino. Anyways, they finally came upon a grand room they had never been to on the 10th floor which was the last floor. Now, right now you might be thinking why would royalty go up and down 10 flights of stairs all day long. Well, remember when Isabel was 4 and she threw a party? She had Tomas Madano Spain's most accepted designer and Isabel's very good friend, design the party. Well, Tomas Madano designed ramps throughout the palace instead of stairs, so that the Spanish royalty would not have to trudge up and down stairs all day. So, the beautiful room they had found was absolutely extraordinary. There was only one thing Isabel did not understand. The walls were all covered with boards that had the names of mostly each King or Queen of Spain. Each board had detailed plans of how that King or Queen was going to overthrow the parent. At the bottom of each board were excuses that the royalty would tell the people about how their parents gave them the throne or passed on the throne. Some excuses were very strange and brutal. Queen Maria Josefa had said "My father, King Fernando caught a terrible disease and died." That's it! The people were so gullible Isabel thought.
      As Isabel scrolled through the boards, she read each plan in detail trying to take ideas from Kings and Queens from long long ago so that no one would recognize the plan. She finally came across her father's name. His board was titled "Prince Marcos's Overthrow of King Fernando IV." In fact, King Marcos's board was the most detailed and intricate plan and his board filled from top to bottom not a space left unwritten of them all! Carmee studied the board as Isabel stood in awe. Nothing would be the same now that the Princess knew that most of her ancestors and even her FATHER... overthrew his  parents. Suddenly, a thought rushed through Carmee's mind, "What if your father suspects we are here since he knows about this room and he knows you want to be Queen!" "He won't , and even if he did have any ideas I told him you and I were going out for a carriage ride to Madrid. So if he suspected something he would know to check the room when we are actually there and in action. We are okay!" Isabel said. "I hope so," Carmee mumbled.
     On the other side of the room there were more empty boards set aside. Isabel grabbed one and wrote her name on it "Princess Isabel of Spain." She added on the board who she planned on taking the throne from "King Marcos of Spain" she wrote. Carmee quickly came up with a fast and effective plan and they were ready to go into action. "Tonight at dinner the chef will be serving duck confit with a fresh salad for the second course. This is my father's favorite, but I told the chef to make the lamb stew with potato which father despises! Whenever they serve the lamb stew he leaves the table and goes to his room. As he walks into his room we will catch him by surprise and trample him. Then, we will ask some of our best guards who think the King is, well in my words I would say 'bad',but anyways, we will ask them to take him to the prison and then we'll have him shipped off on the next boat to England where the King and Queen of England will then decide what do with him and then our job is done! Perfect! The plan will start now. Dinner is in 25 minutes. See you soon Carmee! Go get the plot put together ok? Bye!"
So the Princess for now went off to get dressed for dinner. She chose her favorite red velvet dress with no hoop skirt. Along with it she wore beautiful dangling sapphire earrings and the finest red suede shoes she had in her closet. She wore the sapphire necklace her grandmother had left to her in her will. The Princess loved her grandmother and a small tear dropped from her eye as she put it on. Through all this she still found the will to push herself through and reminded herself that she would be Queen in just a few hours.
She walked downstairs and as she was coming down her father was waiting for her at the bottom of the stairs like always and said "Isabel, you look beautiful today. Just like your mother." Isabel's mother had died the day Isabel turned 1. She gulped to hear those words as she had never met her mother and longed forever to do so. It had been a long time since the King had talked about Isabel's mother. Her name was Queen Cristina. She was the most beautiful woman in all of Spain, but she was more beautiful in the hear than she was anywhere else. Her heart was pure as gold. Isabel clenched her teeth, but reassured herself that what she was doing was what her mother would have wanted.
    They walked down to the hall to the dining room  where the waiter greeted him and bowed as he said "Tonight, we have duck confit," he was interrupted by another waiter who whispered something in his ear and switched his player with another while the waiter nod. "Ok, Your Highness, tonight for dinner we will be serving lamb stew. The King sat still and he took a whiff of his dish and with a face of disgust said, "excuse me, but I am not hungry anymore and will not be having dinner with you today. Maybe later I will come down for after-hour appetizers if I am hungry." He walked back upstairs to his room. The Princess also excused herself to go to the restroom and asked for them not to throw away her food. She went up to her father's room where the guards had already gotten a hold of him and were dragging him to the prison underground.
The next day the king boarded the ship to go to England and Isabel shouted "Bye Bye King Marcos! Oh wait your no longer King and from there on closed him in his passenger box and headed off the ship.
The next day she announced a mandatory meeting for all citizens of Spain. " Good Morning Spain! You all probably know who I am, but in case you don't, I am Princess Isabel of Spain. The problem with that title is that it is no longer my title. My title is now going to be QUEEN Isabel of Spain." A stroke of silence brushed through the crowd as they all looked at each other in astonishment and slowly in shock one after the other, bowed in front of their Queen. " The King has gone to live with the King and Queen of England. He boarded his ship today and he will no longer be in our country. Now, back to the important stuff. My coronation is next Monday and it will be all day. It is mandatory and those who do not come will be hunted down and executed am I clear? Good! Now I have to go eat my breakfast and so do you all. Thank you for coming! Good bye."