Foreword: At this point in the story, some things must be clarified by the author.
#1: The prince's mother (the violent frog in need of a perm) was eventually incarcerated for her steroid-abuse rage problem (yes, very sad), and contradictory to what she might have informed the public in the prologue, she never actually ruled "her lands" (because if she had the people would have been very, very … let's call them interesting… people). Instead, her advisors (a form of frog parliament) had taken over her duties as queen for her. How kind…
#2: The prince was given three choices for a wife, there names being Froginda (Princess #1), Frogette (Princess #2), and Freya (Princess #3). He had, by the time he was kicked out of the house, chosen which one he was going to have as his wife.
#3: You may be wondering where Herbert's father (the king of the frogs) is during all of this. Well, Herbert's father, being of relatively good health when he married his steroid-abusive, angry wife (This was all set up through arranged marriage, however, he did not marry her by choice. As a side note, however, he would probably never have married her if he had known of her "issues.") helped his blood pressure increase drastically, which led to an early death a week after their marriage.
#4: As all this has been going on (the prologue), enemies of the prince (I say prince because everyone was enemies with the queen because of her attitude, so it would be fruitless, if not idiotic, to start with "enemies of the queen.") have been plotting the prince's early doing away with (One of these enemies being Count Lothario Lizard, of a neighboring kingdom). Count Lizard, like the queen in his anger, but more child-tantrum-like, anger wise, had found out about Herbert's engagement affairs, and had decided, that, since it was most likely that Herbert would go on a quest to find and marry his bride, he, Count Lizard, would kill him in an epic duel before he, Herbert, could accomplish his goal.
#5: Although this story sounds like it would have been written in medieval times (because of references to "kingdoms" etc.), the story is actually written in fairly recent times. Contrary to the belief of many scientists working with animals, animals, society wise, are living in a society where kingdoms, are the relatively small areas of grass still around in this day and age (2006).