Life of a Princess 3/4

Days were not as bad as they seemed as a surprise visitor came to visit to change the destiny and move in a different direction. Vaidehi's days seem to look promising or had a chance to improve when one of ministers of the court visited the brothel she was held in. Vaidehi did not realize it but the the minister was also an artist and had a painting of the old queen who seemed to look exactly like Vaidehi. A few moneybags spent and inquiring he found out who Vaidehi really was. He came to her and offered her a root to freedom. Vaidehi spent the entire day crying not knowing if the happiness was true but it was something different today than everyday as for the first time she seemed to have some hope.

Her hope had ran true in a way after being identified she had been assisted in getting away from the place hidden in a cart back to her own kingdom. The people who remembered the old queen were able to recognize the resemblance Vaidehi had with her mother. Although they were able to accept that it was indeed their own prince who had returned as a princess. They did not want to be ruled by a woman born as a man. In those times the transgender was the worst and belonging to it made Vaidehi inferior to even the laborers and servants in the eye of the people. How would they let such a person be their ruler and show any loyalty.


The people were sympathetic to her plight but resolute that they did not want her to be the queen or king of their kingdom anymore. They had also heard the stories of how as a woman Vaidehi had sold her respect for money. No people would want a ruler with such reputation. Vaidehi tried to rally the people with a long and emotional speech. She told how she would rule the kingdom in a just and king way instead of the way the queen had been doing it. She even told how she had been betrayed by the queen and humiliated but she had sustained it all for the good of her people. There were a few sympathizers who finally came to her and told that they would help her regain the throne while the majority agreed not to interfere.