![]() Before he can explain, however, Julian is taken away as a truce hostage to the king's court in the neighboring kingdom of Brutanna. ![]() As the years pass the two children grow more fond of each other even as Julian moves on to become a page in the nearby castle of his uncle, Duke Gilbert.īut when Julian joins the other pages and young squires catcalling and flirting with pretty girls at a local fair, he is too embarrassed to greet Bella when she catches their eye, and she is heartbroken by his seeming indifference to her, believing that he is ashamed of her lowly status. Her best friend is the fourth-born son of the King, Prince Julian of Moranmoor, who also was wet-nursed and raised to the age of three with Bella's family. ![]() Little Bella, as she is called, grows up ignorant of her noble heritage, happy with her foster parents and big brother Will. ![]() Left motherless at birth, little Isabel is dismissed by her distant and distraught father and sent to a peasant nursemaid to be raised in the village of Castle Down. ![]() Author Diane Stanley, noted for her earlier Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter, goes again to the well of the revisited fairy tale in her delightful revisionist Cinderella tale, Bella at Midnight. ![]()
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