Title: happily ever after

Chapter: interlude 2

Disclaimer: not my characters

Warnings: future!fic

Pairings: Nicholas/Mia

Rating: PG
Wordcount: 275

Point of view: third

Prompt: Nicholas/Mia, Outsider-POV of their relationship

When Princess Mia became Queen Amelia, everyone wondered what might change, not just in the palace but all over Genovia. She was American, after all, and as sweet as she was, she also had some strange ideas.

(Lionel and Joe struck fear into the hearts of everyone who witnessed Princess Mia running around in her nightgown, and none of those pictures ever saw the light of day. Joe had diplomatic immunity in forty-six countries, you know.)

When Queen Amelia married Lord Devereaux, most Genovians breathed a small sigh of relief. While he had spent many years abroad, he'd been raised in Genovia, so surely he could rein in some of the Queen's wilder ideas.

And at first, that seemed to be the case. He offered up his ancestral home for a second orphanage, along with the royal family's winter palace, and he talked the Queen out of dissolving Parliament. (Everyone but the Queen knew that would have cost her the throne, and possibly led to a revolution, but she'd been stubborn.)

With the birth of their first child, Crown Prince Philippe Rupert, everyone hoped the Queen would settle down, would quit trying to turn centuries of tradition on its head. For a time, she focused on her son and left the running of the country to the Prince Consort.

They all knew, of course, that he was entirely devoted to his wife and so anything he did would have to be approved by her first, and they all loved their Queen. For all her American thinking, she was leading them into the twenty-first century, with a bright smile.

And everyone agreed she looked lovely on the postage stamp.