smallhobbit | Fandom 50 (37): Swan Lake

The Prince's Girlfriend is clearly not of the right social strata to become the future queen, which is why there is a ball coming up from at which the Prince is going to choose a wife; one approved by the Queen. The Girlfriend will be going but yet again she will stand out like a sore thumb.

She knew she didn’t fit in. She applauded at the wrong moment, failed to understand the plot in an opera in a language she didn’t speak, when those around her had grown up learning the stories, she dropped things and stopped to pick them up herself, rather than waiting for a servant to retrieve them. But she also knew she might be the Prince’s current girlfriend, but the Queen had no intention of letting them marry. So she was going to enjoy every moment of it while she could, not caring if they were laughing at her behind her back.