Chapter 50: Damsel in distress.
That night while Avalo's royal palace was asleep a rumor was spreading in the entire kingdom. By this time the narratives had changed completely. A lot of people were throwing dirt at Lady Catherine for the way she behaved towards princess Ellen.
People did not really care about the fact that Lady Catherine insulted the crown prince but they all felt pity for the young princess from Bozoa.
Saying that she had ran to her room in tears. This made her the Damsel in distress while Catherine and the other ladies were seen as evil. This lead to many people asking why she still had her head on her head.
After all, the king had declared death sentence for anyone who dares to call the crown prince names, such as monster and beast. The whispered went on till early in the morning.
More people were learning about the incident. While some said that the king must be unaware. But soon the information changed.
The King was aware, some rumor even said that lady Catherine and the rest had beaten up princess Ellen since she was alone in the garden. No one knew where the news started from but everyone believed it.
After all the rumors had started from the savants and they are believed to always know what was going on.
Moreover, there was never smoke without fire. That morning Elliott had woken up early in the morning, as usual, for his training, when he heard two of his maid whispering about it.
At first, he felt it was just the usual palace gossip. He even felt at peace when he learned that the king heard about it but refuse to do anything about it.
Although he knew that if news like this got outside of the palace his father will be outraged but he trusted that the palace maids knew better than talk about the affairs of the royal family outside the palace.
He was soon proven wrong when one of his men told him the most heard rumor in the Brothel he visited the previous night.
Elliott still did not count it as anything, until later that day, when the kings men came to call princess Diana to the courtroom shortly after they had breakfast.
King Rodrik felt outraged when he heard the rumors going around. He would have ignored the whole thing knowing that it was just random news that would die soon since no one confirmed anything but how could he ignore it when he heard that people believe that he knew about the incident but paid deaf ears because lady Catherine is the daughter of general Thompson.
This alone was enough to make the king's blood boil in anger. 'if he allowed the news to go on he was certain that people would soon think he was scared of General Thompson.
How can any king fold his hands like that, besides he was a king and his words were law. If he does not call a hearing nobody will take his words seriously going forward.
Moreover, he could not give room for internal conflict in his kingdom when war was looming around. Lady Catherine should have known better than to insult the prince before his wife.
There was a race for the throne and it was natural for every wife to side her husband and find a way to discredit others.
So he immediately ordered his men to get princess Diana, lady vera, and lady Catherine to the courtroom. He also called for Princess Ellan.
He also summoned all members of his royal court to the palace.
In no time the courtroom was filled. Princess Ellen was sitting down with her head bowed. She did not look gracefully or elegant.
If her clothes did not look expensive one might have mistaken her for a commoner. Her eyes were red with bugs like someone who has not slept for days.
Her appearance alone was enough to convince people that the rumor was true. Besides, a lot of people knew that lady Catherine was not as sweet and lovely as she presents herself.
A few of the nobles have encountered her insolent tongue but could do nothing about it since she was the greet General's daughter. So these people were seated hoping she will lose her head at the end of the day.
Lady Catherine did not know that her tongue had earned her a lot of enemies so she stood proud and graceful. She was very confident about leaving the courtroom unharmed. She kept staring down at Ellen. Who looked so quiet.
In her mind, she has indeed cause Ellen to cry and look pitiful in front of everyone. Maybe because she was so confident or it is just the fact that she was overcome by her Pride, she saw Ellan as someone in a pitiful state and could not see through, Ellen plans.
Unlike her, princess Diana already guessed what Ellen was up to. She could tell that Ellen was only putting up a show, to gain sympathy. In a hearing like this, the damsel in distress away wins. She was very grateful that she had sent a message to Ellen last night.
She looked around for her husband and the latter nodded his head. Elliott could already see where this was going to end.
A lot of the nobles were looking at Ellen with a pitiful gaze. This meant that they believed the rumor and according to the law of the land he was sure lady Catharine might lose her head.
Even if she was not put to death, Elliott, was sure as hell that his father will make Julia push her out of the family.
Whatever happens, Catherine was not going to be leaving the royal court untouched and Elliott did not see any reason why he should still bow to Julia if Catherine was no longer his backing.
This means General Thompson would no longer be on his side. Lady vera on the other hand was confused. She had thought that everything about what happened in the crown prince quarter will never be known.
Who would have thought that she would be summoned to the palace the very next day. What frustrated her the most about the whole incident was the fact that she was not standing before the throne as a witness but she was also accused of insulting the crown prince.
Her heart was beating very fast. She was scared of losing her head. Her father had told her to say the truth so that lady Catherine alone would be punished but she felt doing this would be a betrayal to lady Catherine.
Everybody rose from their seat as the king walked into the hall accompanied by his Queen. Queen Magret was known to be indifferent about her son but would she really seat back and let him get insulted.
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