The Mean Princess: Pt1 (TG-Queen)

A TG-Queen request for Funmeyay

The sun hadn’t even started coming up yet when the servants and slaves of the castle woke and started to get ready for work. Some would be going to start cooking, some cleaning, and some had the misfortune to have to go and wake up the princess.

Princess Belle, the one and only princess in these lands, is quite adored by her father, the Tzar, and the people of the kingdom, at least those who’ve never actually met her or been around her in person.

See, on the surface, Princess Belle is a gorgeous woman who’s well known for being not only strong-willed but incredibly independent. She’s never accepted the help of a guard or prince when getting out of a carriage and has always taken care of her needs on her own.

Below that, though, and something only the servants that worked closely with her know, is that Princess Belle has a dark side, a mean streak as some of them put it, one that can ruin a person's life in a moment.

The servants often whisper about the things she’s done but dare not speak up, as they know they’d be punished for it, as many in the past have been, even over the simplest transgressions like coughing.

The last servant to face her wrath was a man named Phillip, who was in charge of carrying buckets of water up to her bath and heating it up. He did so the hour before her bath and had it at the perfect temperature when she arrived.

So what did she have a problem with? He overfilled the bath by half a bucket, which wasn’t enough to cause any problems, at least it shouldn’t have. However for Princess Belle, it meant the bathwater went far too high when she lowered herself in.

That was an insult to her, and thus, she ordered the guards to take Phillip away and have him beaten before ultimately sending him off to one of their mines. Where he spent the rest of his days, not that she even remembers him.

Another person she punished harshly was her previous handmaiden. Princess Belle prefers to get herself dressed and do her own hair and makeup, but the life of a princess can be busy and sometimes requires quick changes in appearance.

Which was what she had called Fryine for, who had previously been the queen's handmaiden and worked for the royal family for over two decades without any issue. Not until one day while helping Princess Belle get ready for an important event.

Princess Belle didn’t have the skills to make her hair how it needed to be for that event, and so she called upon Fryine to help her, who was more than happy to serve her princess. However, once she got inside her bedroom to work, problems arose.

The first was Princess Belle kept telling her she was doing it wrong or too slow, which Fryine had to ignore as she couldn’t tell the princess off. The second problem was Princess Belle herself; she wouldn’t stop moving around.

That caused her hair to be pulled out several times as Fyrine was brushing it and trying to style it, which made Princess Belle feel as though Fyrine was intentionally trying to make her look bad in front of everyone.

The final problem came when it was time to get Princess Belle in the dress. Fyrine had the dress that was supposed to be used, but Princess Belle said it was horrible and disgusting and that only a fool would pick out that dress.

She then went to fetch a dress she approved of and then proceeded to put it on without help from Fyrine. After she was done getting ready, Princess Belle approached Fyrine and scoffed at her, then she started scolding her for being a poor handmaiden.

She then proceeded to punish Fyrine by cutting all her hair off and tearing all her clothes off. Then ordering her to parade around the castle and offer her new services to all the guards she passes. Fyrine looked upset but left as ordered and completed the orders Princess Belle gave her.

After that, though, she vanished, not that Princess Belle noticed or remembered who she was. Those stories are far from all the things she’s done to servants over the years, and they’re far from the cruelest punishments

Many people have suffered from her and it seemed many more were going to as well and there seemed to be nothing anyone could do. Not even going above her head and speaking to the Tzar worked.

He never saw that side of his daughter, so if someone brought it up to him hoping to have him make her change, he’d call them liars and traitors and have them tossed in a cell watching to rest their heads on the chopping block.

He wouldn’t stand by and let anyone talk about his precious daughter, his oldest and only daughter. So the servants live in fear and don’t even dream of crossing her, and each day they hope it isn’t the day they run into her and do something to offend her.

Instead, they whisper and gossip amongst themselves and secretly pray that something or someone will come around and either teach Princess Belle a lesson or rid them of her forever, but the odds of that happening were almost none.

After a long day, Princess Belle heads back to her room and undresses herself to take a bath. Her newest bath master managed to make it perfect, so she excused him since he was no longer needed.

As she sat there soaking in the warm water and scrubbing herself, she had a strange feeling. She couldn’t really figure out why, but it felt as though someone was watching her or perhaps in the room with her.

She called one of the guards in after covering herself with a towel and ordered him to look around. She then watched him check every nook and cranny in her bathroom and saw what he saw: nothing and no one was there.

Still, she felt like someone had to have been there and that the guard was just useless, so she ordered another guard to take him away and hang him upside down for a couple of hours for failing to protect her properly.

She then had more guards check around outside her bedroom while she got into her nightgown and prepared for bed. Before she went to bed, one of the guards came back and told Princess Belle that they had indeed found a farmer outside and had apprehended him and tossed him into the prison.

Princess Belle smiled and said she knew it, then told the guard that was acceptable and closed the door, suddenly feeling quite good about herself. Little did she know the guards had lied to her and made the whole thing up.

They were just worried if they came back empty-handed, they’d be joining their friend being hung upside down, or worse, maybe stripped of their positions, beaten with a stick or forced to sleep in the mud amongst the pigs for a month.

So they made up the story knowing it would make her happy and in turn she wouldn’t blame them for it and punish them for no reason, which worked better than they imagined. No longer feeling as though she was being watched, Princess Belle goes and gets on her bed.

She pulls back her blanket made from the finest silk in all the empire and climbs up under it. She then pulls it back over her and rests her head on the fluffiest and softest pillows ever made. As she sat there slowly drifting asleep, she found herself thinking about the next day.

It was her birthday, and to celebrate, the Tzar was throwing one of the biggest parties ever thrown in the empire and he’d invited all the nobles and royalty from around the world. It was set to be the best birthday she’d ever had, and hopefully nothing went wrong, or she’d have to punish someone for it.