King Julian POV
I stared out the window feeling pensive. Soon they would begin arriving and I wasn't looking forward to it, in fact, I think I would have preferred a tooth-pulling to what I was about to put myself through. Even though this had been my bright idea, now I was reconsidering it. I wasn't so sure it would work. What if it all went pear-shaped? What if it all went devastatingly wrong? But I was sick of the usual girls that came and went in the castle, all of them wanting the same thing, marriage to the King when they didn't know a single thing about me, let alone know how to work hard or treat their loyal subjects because they had never been in their shoes. I needed a down-to-earth girl who genuinely gave a damn about people and what better way to find them than to look amongst
