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I have a story in mind that has been bugging me for quite some time but it takes place in the 1700s that concerns a real event that took place about the 1740s. It was a very sad and cruel thing. A young child barely able to walk was taken and thrown in prison. It was all done by his aunt, or something simply because she was a power hungry b and the boy was the young prince. He spent his entire life in prison, and died there in his 20s.
What if he escaped, and was able to challenge her, but, it never happened. Would writing such a story be in bad taste?
And how can I find a good name, I considered something like from prince to queen, but that gives the entire thing away. But yeah, I am considering like him having a relationship with a guard and escaping as his girlfriend. Or something like that
Can someone help me, or would anyone be willing to help me
I'd do it as an alternative universe.
I'd do it as an alternative universe. More leeway and it's ALL fiction.
Fictionalize it
Set it in a fictional country or with slightly different circumstances and you can avoid offending.
It's a common enough theme that you could be talking about the Boys in the Tower or the Man in the Iron Mask.
I'd even consider the title The Man in the Iron Dress - echoes the trope and also points out that a disguise can become just another kind of prison.
Interesting Premise
Fiction . . . is fiction. A lot of fiction has a foundation real events. Your title should give the reader an indication of the tone of your story. If I was going to write this story I would try to be lighthearted because the facts are so awful.
My title: Loo -- The Transformative Story of a Royal Flush
My theme would be that by having a positive attitude the prince is able to not only survive his ordeal, but to prove to an adoring nation that she is the rightful person to occupy the throne.
Good luck.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
royal flush
That sounds like something Katie wrote, something like a joke about the bathroom conflict
Truthfully, I dont intend it to be light hearted. I think if he escaped prison it may have resulted in a full civil war
He was put in prison as a child, little more than a toddler and separated from the rest of his family. His father, and his siblings were in another prison.
The boy is Ivan the sixth, in russia in prisoner by his aunt empress Elizabeth. He went though several emperor changes, from the Peter the third, on to Catherine who was very cruel to his family. Seems the people adored her, but they didnt know how she was having Ivan treated. Like she ordered his jailers to beat him regularly and keep him chained.