She was the Killer Queen.
Her voice like thunder, her words cut like knives.
The whole kingdom wrapped around her finger.
As if they were all under her spell,
Hanging on to every word,
Every syllable that left her ruby red lips.
Enchanted by her beauty.
Blown away by her power.
Everyone stopped and listened,
as they worshiped,
The Killer Queen.
In Rosewood Kingdom, Queen Alison of the DiLaurentis's was viewed by her people as a Goddess. It had always been this way, ever since she was born. Alison's beauty was seen even when she was a child, such beauty hadn't been seen of in centuries.
At age four, the people of Rosewood showered her with gifts, as well as people from other kingdoms. Far and wide, people would travel to see if they could catch a glimpse of Princess Alison, walking around in the courtyard closely followed by her nanny. Her parents, who were the ones who glorified Alison's beauty, spent most of their free time with her. This made Prince Jason DiLaurentis, the oldest son and heir to the throne, feel jealous. He wasn't getting nearly as half of the attention that Alison was getting.
At age eleven, Alison's true beauty began to shine forward. Different kingdoms had gifted her with many jewels and items of wealth as gifts to Rosewood. Some kingdoms such as The Kingdom of Ravenswood, was already trying to arrange marriages with Rosewood. Prince Noel Kahn of Ravenswood was the middle son and second heir to the throne of his kingdom. The king and queen had already sent gifts and invitations for treaties to try to arrange a marriage between them when they both turned eighteen. Prince Jason grew more and more jealous of his younger sister, he desperately needed attention and each time someone would send her a gift, he grew to loathe her even more.
At age thirteen, Alison was by far the most beautiful girl in the world, even though she was only just a teenager. People began to believe more so than before that she was a Goddess and shrines were beginning to be made in her honor. At age nineteen, Prince Jason DiLaurentis was charged for treason for the attempted murder of Alison DiLaurentis. He had loathed his sister so much that he had finally snapped. Taking a dagger, he walked into Princess Alison's room and attempted to stab her to death. Before he could do much damage, he was seized by Rosewood guards and taken to await his fate. There, King Kenneth of Rosewood charged Prince Jason with treason against The Kingdom of Rosewood for attempting to kill his sister. What made Prince Jason even more angry was the fact that his parents didn't even shed a tear or bat an eye when giving him his fate. Luckily for Princess Alison, the only mark she got was on her inner thigh, leaving a scar to this day that she kept hidden from everyone, in fear that they would realize that she wasn't a God after all.
When the day Prince Jason was to be executed in front of the whole kingdom, Princess Alison watched on with the King and Queen as her brother was taken to be beheaded in front of the whole kingdom. People say that she didn't even flinch as her brother's head was removed from his body. She kept a stone cold face the whole time. Others say they saw her smirk when her brother was beheaded, but that's just a myth. But what was a definite fact is something changed about Princess Alison. She wasn't the same smiling girl, instead whenever the people saw her they noticed that her facial expression, cold and now carrying the occasional smirk.
At age seventeen, a few days before Princess Alison's eighteenth birthday, her parents never came back from their trip to Ravenswood. Suspecting that the were dead, on top of a celebration for the Princess of Rosewood turning eighteen and coming of age, they were mourning the death of the beloved King and Queen. Also on that day, Alison took the throne, something many people were unsure she was ready for. The people who witnessed Alison's coronation swore that the whole time during the ceremony, a small smirk was playing on her ruby red lips.
The people who believed that Alison wouldn't be ready to have the title queen were quickly silenced. Alison soon enough began her reign as queen with an iron fist, making everyone shudder just by the sound of her voice. This brought Alison's nickname, The Killer Queen. People knew her as both names, Queen Alison of Rosewood, and the Killer Queen. Both were feared just as much as the other. Although the people of Rosewood and other kingdoms feared her now, they still adored her and continued to shower with gifts.
Everywhere people talked about the Killer Queen. She was a topic of gossip and an image of lust. People wanted to be her or people wanted to be with her.
And now at age eighteen, Queen Alison was looking for a new personal assistant, having no idea what she was about to get herself into.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
