"I mean it's the usual story, isn't it" Anna began sharing her story with her trusted handmaiden with her usual heavy german accent

"The savvy, educated young princess deemed repulsive by a wheezing, wrinkled Ulcer-riddled man twenty-four years her senior? Rejection! Rejection from a king I mean how could anyone overcome a fate as devastating as being forced To move into a resplendent palace enrichment With more money than I could spend in a lifetime" She wiped a fake tear

"And not a single man around to tell me what to do with it?" She added almost as a bonus