King Ford expected a good number of guests to stay over the night on the eve of the wedding , not just from within his kingdom , but also from without . Among them was the King of the West who had confirmed his attendance . He was expected later on the day . However , the one guest who was expected with a lot of anticipation was the mother Queen of the Western Kingdom .
Queen Paula was the mother of Mrs. Ford , mother inlaw to King Ford and therefore Prince Dan's maternal grandmother . Widowed at an early age when her husband , King of the Western kingdom , had been killed in the war of the Kingdoms , she had stepped into her husband's shoes and ruled the kingdom for ten good years untill her eldest son had become of age . It was rumoured that her reign was what had led to the peace and t
