All will be explained.
Disclaimer: I don't own OUAT or Princess and the Pauper.
Long ago and far away, in a village high on a mountain top, something amazing was occurring. At the very same moment, two identical baby girls were born.
One, a baby princess. The king and queen were overjoyed! Princess Elsa would have only the finest.
The second baby girl was named Emma. Her parents loved here every bit as much as the king and queen loved the princess. But they worried, they were so poor! How would they be able to care for their little daughter?
Many years passed. The princess learned her royal duties, while Emma worked long and hard as a seamstress for the spiteful Madame Mills, never mind the fact she couldn't sew to save her life.
With lives so different, it wasn't surprising that the princess and the pauper never met. But fate decreed they would.
It all started years after the two girls were born, and at the royal mine. The miners informed the queen the gold had run out! The widowed queen, her husband had died at sea, was shocked. The kingdom was now bankrupt. How was she going to take care of her people? If only she could call on her trusted advisor Rumplestiltskin. But he was away on a long journey.
She needed to do something quickly to save the kingdom. But what? And then it struck her! Nearby lived a rich king who was seeking a wife for his son...
If you've watched the Princess and the Pauper and recognize like 90% of these words, then yay! If you haven't, you don't need to. This fic is based on the Barbie movie, which I'm pretty sure is based on the Prince and the Pauper. Anyways, it strays from the plotline enough that I am proud to say I didn't just replace the names. There are plot twists and the ending is quite different.