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A young relative inspired this challenge, based on how I noted that "Prince Chamring is named in "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," and "Cinderella," because obviously, King Charming had 3 sons.

your challenge is to write a TL where a king marries off 3 boys with stories as similar to the above fairy tales as possible. Some rules:

1. No need for magic, obviously, but there must be a royal ball involved in the Cinderella analogue, and the prince must go around the area looking for someone who lost her slipper. (It need not be glass - as my then 7YO cousin once said, "Wouldn't they cut her feet anyway?")

2. I don't remember much of anything about the other two, only cinderella. Those two, you've got more leeway. But...

3. At least one of the 3 marriages must be because the prince chooses, and not a marriage of political aspiration. Yes, that may be the marriage of the one who eventually succeeds the king; however, you get bonus points if none are marriages of political convenience.

4. They must all live happily ever after; i.e.: Long and happy marriages for their time.

5. It may be modern, but there's probably more fun if you can make it a figure further back in time.

6. No, Sleeping Beauty need not sleep 100 years, but she could be healed of some disease or something by the prince, I guess.

Bonus points also if you make it a king who ruled in OTL, though if you make it an ATL king, as long as you don't go too far beyond the POD for the 3 marriages, that's fine.

Also, more bonus points the more important a kingdom it is. Super-giganto-dinosaur sized points if it's Charlemegne.

Have fun.
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