![]() ![]() The two bond over their shared troubles and become fast friends. Anneliese and Erika meet and learn that they are identical, apart from their hair color and the crown-shaped birthmark on Anneliese's shoulder. Anneliese hears Erika, who is performing in the street to earn money for herself, but Madame Carp collects it as part of her debt. ![]() Julian takes Anneliese for a day out into the kingdom so that she can be free for once there, she witnesses the poverty caused by the kingdom’s bankruptcy. Upon learning from his henchmen, Nick and Nack, that the Queen has arranged Anneliese's marriage to King Dominick, he decides to make Anneliese 'mysteriously disappear', which will then cancel the engagement after which Preminger can pretend that he has found the Princess, earning her hand in marriage, and allowing him to accede the throne and become king himself. ![]() Unbeknownst to the Queen, the reason behind the kingdom's bankruptcy is that her adviser Preminger has been stealing gold, emptying the royal mines. The Pauper Erika, is an indentured servant, working off her parents' debt at Madame Carp's Dress Emporium, but she dreams of becoming a singer and seeing the world. Several years later, Princess Anneliese is betrothed by her mother, Queen Genevieve, to the wealthy King Dominick to save the nearly bankrupt royal treasury however, she is in love with her young tutor Julian. In an unnamed kingdom, a blonde princess and a brunette pauper are born at the same time. ![]()
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