Son Ombre

Ep 2

After the night and the conversation on the balcony together with Prince Peter, who left my room with a wide smile on his face, they announced us as an engaged couple the next morning.

I didnt know how to take it too seriously, I didnt know how we were supposed to sit across from each other at breakfast and didnt know how to behave, should I fake my love for him or act like I was in love with him? 

I loved him, as a human being he was funny and interesting and quite the opposite of what I thought at first.

Father who thought he left me no choice but to agree to this marriage

After the Prince told me that everything was really up to him, I realized that sometimes we were deliberately intimidated just to agree, so that our parents would see us happy.

After all, Someday I would become a queen and one day Id like to see my children happy and happily married.

After a week, this oath came, I found myself in a bridal gown and a long long veil that caressed the floor as I prepared for my wedding day. I came to Denmark, I got to know his family a little closer, all my ride in a carriage on straight roads and without rocks in the wheels me and Katherine laughed all the way, she told me a secret about her first love she met in Germany, she described him as her guardian angel and I understood that we were both love-sick.

She whispered in my ear that they shouldnt love each other like that, she was half a year younger than me and yet, she whispered words I never thought I would share with anyone, whispered to me about her secret fantasies about him.

Sometimes, when Katharine laughed and I looked at her, I hoped she wasnt the sister of who I was going marry, I hoped she would be my best friend to know that I loved someone, just like her, too.

Katherine went with me to the measurements of the dress and she complimented me on every step I took, we shared a laughter and had a real sense of joy.

I felt grateful, especially to Prince Peter, if I did not know him, I would not have known Katherine, the Princess of Denmark.

When the evening arrived and the Danish royal palace filled with guests I knew that this was the moment, peering through the magnificent curtain of my dressing room, my dressmaker who came with me stood beside me with several maids smiling at me. Katherine pushed me to the window again.

- "Look." She whimpers.

"What are we looking for?"

There were a lot of people. Lots of young men in suits and a lot of girls dressed in amazing dresses. Denmark was beautiful, the landscape made it so beautiful.

- "They came to see you. They came here for you." She hugs me, and only then I realize that all those people who do not know me, who know nothing about me, I'll be their queen, I'll become their queen tonight and they'll be my people.

I'm going to marry the next king of Denmark, who'd make me a queen.

"You need to smile more." Katherine had learned to laugh at me to make me laugh even more, I was ready, my hairstyle was comfortable and beautiful and my dress was a little tight, the corset crammed my lungs a little but I knew it would be over soon.

"Peter was born lucky because he's marrying someone like you." She says.

"Dont say that, I was born with luck to marry someone like Peter."

"At least Peter doesnt suffer from the corset." She laughs and I laugh louder, just as the king, my father, enters the locker room and the voices of women marveling in confusion are heard.