Christmas at the royal palace
Dear readers,
I want to tell you about an old medieval story
that took place in a small kingdom ruled for a long time by a
good king and a very intelligent queen.
The royal family was composed of three people: the parents and
their daughter. Mary, the mother, wasn’t very young and she was
as old as Fedrich, the father. She was tall, she had dark green
eyes and long blond hair. The king had brown hair and brown
eyes. He loved going out to shoot game but he spent a lot of
time at the royal palace because he wanted to stay with his only
daughter that he loved very much.
In the kingdom you could hear people who said
that Claire, the princess, was so beautiful that every day many
boys came to the royal palace for giving her their presents and
proposing her to marry them. She was eighteen, she was tall and
her hair were red. She had green eyes and a pallid skin, as
white as the moon light or the snow which you could see on the
top of the mountain where the royal palace was situated.
It was so big that all the servants lived there and, from Claire’s
room, you could see the waves of the sea that collided violently
with the face of the mountain. On the towers there were always
soldiers who looked around for controlling the territory. All
around the royal palace there were trees and many kinds of birds
flew in the clear sky over it.
It was nearly Christmas and, like every year, at
the royal palace they were organizing the great ball that would
start the night of the 24th December, after the
opening of the presents.
Claire hated this celebration because she thought that it was only
for children, who longed to receive a lot of gifts. So, she
spent this time in her room, like a common day.
Her parents sent all the invitations and they
decided to give their daughter a white dress because they wanted
to see Claire married with a prince who would come at the royal
palace and who had to see her at Christmas night.
On the 24th December a lot of rich
people arrived and the servants were decorating the castle for
the night. Claire had to welcome all the guests. Then, they went
suddenly in the ballroom, where they left their presents for the
royal family and they could eat something and sat on the
armchairs, waiting for midnight.
When Claire went to her room, she was amazed
because on her bed there was a gift for her. The princess opened
it and she found the dance dress with a small crown, that were
decorated with pearls and diamonds. She wore them and she ran
downstairs to thank her parents for the presents, so she
understood that she started to like Christmas.
Claire decided to take part in dance and when
people started making pairs, she had to dance with the prince
who her parents had chosen for her: Anthony. He was tall and he
had black hair with blue eyes. Suddenly they became friends and
they fell in love.
Time passed quickly and when Anthony went back
home, he told his cousin Tom about his love for Claire. Tom was
envious of Anthony, so he stayed awake all night because he
didn’t want his cousin to be happy. He made a plan.
It was the 25th December and it was
snowing. In the morning, when all the people at the castle were
still sleeping, Tom got into Claire’s room and he kidnapped her.
The girl couldn’t shout because Anthony’s cousin put his hand on
her mouth, so she was imprisoned in a dark room of his castle.
The princess was frightened and she only could hope that Anthony
would know what had happened to her and that he would save her.
In the evening, the prince was going to the royal
palace for seeing Claire again and speaking to her about their
future, the wedding date... But when he arrived to Claire’s
castle, he found all the servants, the queen and the king out of
the door and he understood that something strange had happened.
They told him that Claire had disappeared.
Anthony was furious because he knew that it was a
plan of his treacherous cousin, so he ran suddenly to Tom’s
castle for saving his darling. There, he drew his sword and he
challenged the enemy. They fought for hours and, at the end, Tom
fell down the mountain and drowned in the sea. Anthony took the
key of the room where Claire was imprisoned and opened it,
setting her free from that place.
Finally Claire and Anthony could organize the
wedding so, they decided to get married the next month. From
that day the princess is the gladdest girl in the world and now
she loves Christmas because it represents the love which her
husband felt and feels for her.
So, dear readers, I can finish the tale saying
that the others, with their love, make us happy and thanks to
them we can carry on hoping and dreaming, especially in a magic
day like Christmas.
Chiara
Fioribello
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