King Estrode promised his beautiful daughter, the Princess Evangel, to be married to King Widdiddle's son Prince Muffed. As both kings were getting long in years and few in teeth, it was a marriage made in Heaven. However there was a wee problems. Prince Muffed had the face of a pig, almost quite literally, he was truly the ugliest human the unbelievably beautiful Princess Evangel, or anyone else, had ever seen. His eyes were crossed, his body odor preceded him for hundreds of meters where ever he went. His bulbous nose, covering half his face, was big enough for four people to breathe through. The Prince's looks the Princess could ignore, as no one had a choice in how they looked. It was his hygiene she wasn't going to tolerate. The idea she would need to sleep next to the Prince rolled her stomach.
The day of the wedding between the Prince and the Princess which would joined two tiny kingdoms, the Princess couldn't be found. The previous day she had swiped a servant's dress and robe from the castle's clothing stores and left with the servants who went to the outlying barns to tend to livestock and milk the cows and goats. At the barn she took a couple horses out to exercise them in the fields. Only she never turned back.
When the princess couldn't be found Kind Widdiddle was furious. He had spent the kingdoms entire treasury, one hundred and one gold crowns, nine silvers, and twelve coppers, on the wedding feast. He had been made a fool. The embarrassment needed a response. He would lay siege against King Estrode's castle. The fact he didn't' have any knights wasn't a problem. He gathered a half dozen peasants and knighted them. Mounted them on two draft horses, three cows, and one donkey, armed with wooden swords.
In his haste to field his knights Kind Widdiddle didn't examine his conscripts too closely. One was an old woman, another a nine year old girl, two "very old" men, one young man with a wooden leg. One seven year old boy who had been frolicking in the hay with the nine year old girl when he was called to duty.
The Princess in her hast to escape failed in her disguise in many ways. Obviously she wasn't an experienced escape artist. Her beautiful sheepskin boots were only worn by the princess. The tiara she forgot to remove might have been a little bit too obvious she was the Princess. Might have been the golden bejeweled necklace or the golden jeweled bracelets along with the jeweled rings she forgot to remove? All the servants and peasants acted like she was one of them. Even helping her saddle a horse to take out to "graze in the field". Although no one ever put a saddle on any of the horses just to take them out to graze.
Fate must have been smiling favorably on the young peasant girl as she rode away from her father's castle and into the forest. A young handsome knight was headed to the castle on the same road. As he saw the peasant girl he knew he had lost his heart to this fair maiden. Turning his steed when he got even with her he rode beside her headed the same direction.
"Young maiden, where for art thou, headest for not ye should traps these dangerous greens alone."

"I am but a simple peasant out to seeketh toadstools for a king." She smiled at the young knight.

"Forest a king? Then it behooves me to guide ye fair maiden for I knowest where the mostest toadstools sprout in this forest." The young knight led the fair maiden on and on until they came to an abandoned hoovel in dire need of help. There he annotated himself king and the fair maiden as his wife. The reluctant Princess found true love with her handsome knight-King, and they lived happily ever after. And then some.

This is a true story told to me by my great grandmother who was told by her grategrandmother and her gratgrandmother whose mother happened to the the Reluctant Princess.

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