The whole kingdom lined the streets to see Prince Charming and his new wife Cinderella walk the streets, everyone rejoiced.
Cinderella and Prince Charming moved into the palace at the top of the hill, they had servants to buy them everything they needed, to cook their food, to dress them, to clean the palace, to usher guests, to tailor clothes, to play music, the list was endless.
Cinderella had the whole North wing of the palace to herself, and Prince Charming lived at its center.
Cinderella had everything she could possibly want, she never had to leave her beautiful palace again, which was lucky because it was now lawfully forbidden for any man to look upon her. All her servants were female and she was confined to the palace, should any man have looked upon her beauty it would have heralded his death.
7 months after they were married, Cinderella fell pregnant, and 9 months after that she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.
15 months after their marriage, while Cinderella was still pregnant, the King of the land died, and Prince Charming became King Charming. He suddenly became very important and he was away from the palace often.
Soon after the birth of the little girl, King Charming took another wife, Snow White, who lived in the South Wing of the palace, Cinderella and Snow White did not like each other. Not long afterwards Cinderella fell pregnant again.
When Cinderela was four months pregnant, King Charming took a third wife, Thumbelina, who lived in the Eastern Wing of the Palace. When Cinderella was seven months pregnant Thumbelina too became pregnant. Two months later Cinderella gave birth to another beautiful baby girl. Seven months later, Thumbelina gave birth to a baby boy.
The whole land rejoiced, a new heir to the throne of the land. As the mother of the heir to the throne, Thumbelina became King Charming's first wife, Cinderella was made to move out of the North Wing of the palace, and into the slightly less lavish south wing, Thumbelina moved into the north wing and Snow White moved into the east wing.
Within the next twenty years, King Charming took another wife (Rapunzel) to live in the West Wing of the Palace, Cinderella had 7 more children, Thumbelina had 10 more, Snow White had only three and Rapunzel had five. Along with his four wives, King Charming entertained fifty concubines at all times, who were not allowed to be over the age of twenty, Cinderella saw less and less of King Charming as age started to show on her face.
When Cinderella was in her forties and King Charming in his late fifties, the eldest son of Snow White, (Jack) became jealous of his eldest half brother, who would inherit the wealth, the palace and the throne. Late one night he snuck through the palace and killed all his half-brother princes who were older than him (5 in total) and the four next oldest boy children junior to him. Cinderella's three eldest boys were killed. The over-zealous young Prince Jack then murdered his father, King Charming.
The next morning, the kingdom awoke to the screams of mothers crying over their dead children. Jack, now by far the eldest boy siezed control of the kingdom. His first act as King was to throw Thumbellina, Rapunzel, Cinderella and all of their children out of the palace with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Cinderella and her children had become accustomed to having servants to buy them everything they needed, to cook their food, to dress them, to clean the palace, to usher guests, to tailor clothes, to play music, and they had no idea how to care for themselves. Cinderella's youngest two children died from infection, and Cinderella had to resort to selling her body on the street to feed her younger siblings. Cinderella was now old however, and had little success, so she had no choice but to sell the bodies of her two eldest daughters.
At the age of 52 Cinderella died from an unknown illness.
But King Jack's reign was long and glorious; he made the pages of history, statues bearing his name lined the streets of every town, and great obilisks were built in his honor. He took four wives, seventy concubines and was murdered at age 64 by one of his own sons.
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A parable on the pettiness of human nature? An extrapolation of a fairytale based on the implied social set-up? Or is it a synopsis of a future novel?
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