I'm no lawyer so in case this prison sentence is super unrealistic, I'll claim creative license.

Alex Ten and Three Quarters

HM Blaine Devon James of Virginia, born February 2, 1992

HRH (His Royal Husband ;) ) Kurt Elijah Hummel, born May 27, 1994

HRH The Crown Princess Alexandra Elisabeth Sophia of Virginia, born December 29, 2021

HRH The Prince James Charles Francis of Virginia, born August 3 , 2023

Her Grace The Lady Lilian Grace Marie Hummel of Ohio, born July 15, 2026

2032

Alex is in a car with Jamie, Lilly, Hunter and Marley, on their way to the opening of a new foster home Dad and Papa are supporting. Lilly and Jamie are both wearing headphones and are watching the newest Disney film on their tablets when she hears it. The partition between the front seats and the back is down so Hunter and Marley can talk while she drives them through the city and Alex pretends not to listen because they always talk about Palace gossip when they think she and her siblings aren't paying attention.

In other news, one of the three men convicted for attacking King Blaine's husband Kurt Hummel in 2017 is set to be released from prison after severing a fifteen year long sentence. Serving their sentences in….

Marley immediately turns off the radio when she catches her listening, Alex' eyes wide in shock. Someone had hurt Papa badly enough that they had to go to prison for fifteen years? He doesn't look like someone hurt him badly. Though, every winter when it gets cold Papa complains to Dad about his ankle when he thinks the kids aren't listening but she's thought his bones hurt because he is old.

If she had a normal phone like her friends, she'd just go online and google her parents because she's pretty sure Marley and Hunter won't tell her anything her parents haven't told her, but she doesn't. She's going to be eleven in two months but she's not allowed to have a social media account like all her friends and she can only visit a few sites online that have been pre approved by the Palace in addition to texting. Normally, she doesn't complain because she knows Dad had the same rules growing up and is still restricted in what he can do online because the government is afraid someone might hack him and release private things about him though she doesn't know what her Dad could be doing that he wants to remain a secret. Today though, she wants to be a normal ten and three quarter year old and not a princess who always has to follow Palace rules and and has to watch how she behaves in public.

"After the opening, I'm going to take Jamie and Lilly over to the Montgomerys and Hunter's going to take you and Karen shopping," Marley tries to distract her from what she's heard on the radio and Alex perks up immediately. Because Karen has a normal phone which means she can look up Papa when they try on clothes and Hunter has to wait outside.

Soon, their car pulls up in front of a large house and Alex waits in the car until Hunter opens the door for her and helps her climb out. After making sure her dress isn't wrinkled, she smiles her most dazzling smile at the waiting photographers while Hunter and Marley try to shield them as much as possible. Jamie, who hates it when people take his picture, is hiding behind Hunter as they walk up the steps to where Dad and Papa are waiting for them on the front porch, but Lilly who at six loves the spotlight and wants to be an actress one day like Papa is blowing kisses at the cameras and twirling on the spot to show off her dress.

Some days, Alex hates her a little bit, because Lilly can do whatever she wants because the only way for her to be a Queen is to marry a King. Alex always has to watch what she says in public and she has to be nice to everyone, even to the mean kids in school who say she's weird because she has two dads and a sister who isn't really her sister because they don't have the same mom or dad. It's okay for Lilly to call them stupid and tell them they don't know what they're talking about, but Alex has to be nice so people don't say Dad and Papa are bad parents.

Up on the front steps, Dad allows the photographer to take a quick picture of the whole family and Papa even gets Jamie to smile for the cameras. For the next two hours, Alex, Jamie and Lilly have to play with the kids who just moved into the foster home while photographers take their pictures and Dad and Papa talk to the reporters. At ten and three quarters, she's a pro at these charity events and once Dad explained why they are always going to orphanages and soup kitchens, Alex stopped complaining about it. Because how can she when she lives in a Palace with more rooms than she can count and other kids her age don't even have their own bed to sleep in because they live on the streets with their parents or don't even have parents.

"Are you really a princess?" a young girl asks her and Alex nods her head. "What's it like?"

Everyone always asks her but she can't really explain. Life as a princess is the only life she knows. She's had her own guard since the moment she was born, and the only normal house she's ever slept in is her grandpa Burt's house in Ohio where she, Lilly and Jamie spend a week every summer. She's never been on the subway, has never flown on a normal plane and she goes to a school that's nearly as heavily guarded as the Palace. They have a playground in the Palace gardens because Alex can't play in a regular park, only Lilly because she's not in line for the throne. But she obviously can't complain to the orphan girl about those things.

"It's really nice," Alex says instead and smiles brightly. "I'm very lucky to be a princess."

After the reporters have left, Alex waits with Hunter while Dad and Papa drive back to the Palace and Marley takes Jamie and Lilly to uncle Wes' house to play with Eva and Robby. Fortunately, they don't have to wait long before Karen's mom drops off Karen and then they are off to Bergdorf's so Alex can look for a dress for Christmas. It's the first time Papa's letting her pick a dress by herself, but she knows he called the store and told them how much Alex is allowed to spend on her dress.

Even though she's itching to get her hands on Karen's phone, she doesn't ask her for it in the car because Hunter has crazily good hearing and if he finds out Karen has a normal phone then he would probably tell her parents and what if they say she can't hang out with Karen anymore because of the 'security risk'? So she follows Hunter upstairs to the children's section of the store when they get there, as always trying to ignore the stares that follow her wherever she goes, and half heartedly picks up a few dresses to try on. She has to wait until Hunter's cleared the dressing room before she and Karen are allowed to go it and when they do, she pulls Karen into a cubicle furthest away from the entrance.

"Can I borrow your phone?" Alex whispers and drops the dresses unceremoniously. "I want to look up Papa on the internet."

"Why?" Karen frowns. "Can't you just ask him if you want to know something about him?"

Alex shakes her head. She can't ask until she knows what the man on the radio was talking about.

"He'd probably say, I'll tell you when you're older."

Karen rolls her eyes because they both hate that phrase and pulls her iPhone from her coat pocket.

Alex opens the internet app and quickly types in Kurt Hummel. Loudly she says, "Definitely not that one. Makes me look like a Christmas tree," and Karen grins.

"Yes, it's horrible," she adds loudly before in a whisper she tells Alex to click on the Wikipedia link. "Mom says it's a good place to look up things you don't know."

The webpage has a picture of Papa from the Emmy awards in September and there's all this information on him. Holding the phone so that Karen can see it too, she starts to read.

Kurt Elijah Hummel (born 27 May 1994) is an American actor and the husband of King Blaine of Virginia, the ruling monarch of the Kingdom of the United States of America and its dependencies.

Mr. Hummel grew up in Lima, Ohio and moved to New York City after graduation from William McKinley High School in Lima to study musical theater at New York University. The Palace announced King Blaine's engagement to Mr. Hummel in May 2020 and the couple was wed in the Palace rose gardens on 5 September 2020. King Blaine and Mr. Hummel have three children, Crown Princess Alexandra Elisabeth Sophia of Virginia (born 29 December 2021), Prince James Charles Francis of Virginia (born 3 August 2023) and Lady Lilian Grace Marie Hummel of Ohio (born 15 July 2026). King Blaine is the biological father of Princess Alexandra and Prince Jamie and Mr. Hummel the biological father of Lady Lilian Hummel. Additionally, Princess Alexandra and Prince Jamie share the same anonymous egg donor. All three children share a surrogate, Serena Rumbolt, a New York lawyer who paid for college and law school working as the royal surrogate. Her name was released in 2028, when Mr. Hummel said in an interview that he and the King had no plans to have another child.

EARLY LIFE

Kurt Elijah Hummel was born at Lima Presbyterian Hospital on May 27 1994. His mother Elisabeth (née Miller, 1972 - 2001) worked as an elementary school teacher and his father Burt (born 1970) worked as a mechanic before starting his own business and running for local government. He served on the city council for two terms (2010 - 2018) and now resides in Lima with his second wife Carole Hummel (formerly Hudson, née Langdon)

Mr. Hummel showed an interests in the arts early, attending ballet and tap dance lessons until the age of 8 and singing in his school's choir all the way to graduation. He first….

Alex scrolled further down because she knows a lot about Papa's childhood because grandpa Burt always tells them stories when they visit. She's more interested in how he met Dad and the attack she heard about on the radio.

RELATIONSHIP WITH KING BLAINE

Early relationship

Mr. Hummel first entered the spotlight on June 15th 2016. After having met Prince Blaine, then second in line to the throne, at 'Scandals', a gay bar in Upper Manhattan, Prince Blaine followed Mr. Hummel to his apartment on W 157th street which he was sharing with Broadway actress Rachel Berry and PR strategist Santana Lopez - Pierce. The next morning, a video showing the prince in the arms of an unknown man, both not fully dressed, went viral. In the video, the prince tearfully confessed his homosexuality not knowing he was being recorded. It is rumored that the video was taken and released by one of Mr. Hummel's roommates but neither Mr. Hummel nor King Blaine have ever revealed who was responsible for their forced outing. The media jumped on the story quickly and revealed that the prince had met the actor the previous night and had followed him home after a night of heavy drinking. It wasn't just his one night stand with an unknown male that caused the scandal that followed, because when Prince Blaine met Mr. Hummel he was engaged to Lady Charlotte of Carolina, now Princess Charlotte of Spain. Mr. Hummel went to Ohio to visit with family and Prince Blaine returned to the Palace to talk to his family about the revelation. As far as the press was concerned that was it. The younger prince had had a one night stand with Mr. Hummel and they had parted the next day. Friends and family of the couple knew of course that they were still seeing each other, but the public didn't learn about the relationship until 31 December 2016 when the Palace released a statement about Prince Blaine and Mr. Hummel following King Cooper's coronation.

Break Up and Reconciliation

On 21 March 2017, the day after King Cooper's abdication from the throne and King Blaine's ascension, the Palace released a statement saying King Blaine and Mr. Hummel were taking time apart to determine if a future relationship was possible for them. In a 2030 interview to celebrate the couple's ten year wedding anniversary, King Blaine admitted that he had in fact broken up with Mr. Hummel in a knee jerk reaction to his brother's announcement, thinking he and Mr. Hummel couldn't be together because of royal law demanding the King had to marry a Queen to produce legal heirs. King Cooper had changed those laws as his last act as king but had neglected to inform King Blaine about the changes. Following Mr. Hummel's assault, the couple reconciled and King Blaine was caught on camera surprising Mr. Hummel on stage following his first performance after his release from the hospital.

Engagement and Wedding

On 5 May 2020 the Palace announced King Blaine's engagement to Kurt Hummel. As location the Palace rose gardens were announced since a royal wedding in St. Patrick's cathedral was not possible for the King and his fiancé. In the history of the Crown of America, King Blaine was the first monarch not to wed in church and without the blessings of the bishops even though the King is the head of the Church of America. New York City Mayor Arthur Abrams officiated the civil wedding in front of …

Again, Alex scrolls further down until she finds what she's been looking for because they discussed her parents' wedding in history class not too long ago, so this isn't news to her.

ASSAULT

On 1 April 2017, Mr. Hummel was on his way to his home in Brooklyn when he was attacked by three men. Gerald Tucker, Ben Karycz and John Greers had left a nearby bar after being asked to leave by the wait staff and were itching for a fight. Mr. Karycz, the only assailant who fully confessed to the assault, stated that he and his friends happened upon Mr. Hummel and decided to teach him a lesson because homosexuality was wrong and Mr. Hummel's relationship with the King gave the country a bad reputation. He also admitted that it quickly turned from teaching Mr. Hummel a lesson, to taking care of the problem once and for all. Luckily for Mr. Hummel, a college student walked past the alley the assault was happening in and called 911, afraid to get attacked herself if she tried to intervene. Hearing the approaching sirens, Mr. Karycz stated that they grabbed Mr. Hummel's bag, threw his cell phone against the wall and fled the scene before police and an ambulance arrived. They were arrested three months later after police canvassed the neighborhood and found more people who had seen the trio that night.

Mr. Hummel was admitted to Brooklyn Hospital with a ruptured spleen, multiple broken ribs, broken nose, concussion, broken arms and broken ankle. Upon his arrival, emergency surgery was performed on him to stop the internal bleeding and his was moved to the ICU as a John Do since he didn't have an ID on him and his injuries made it difficult for police and medical personnel to identify him. Four days after he was admitted, a nurse in intensive care recognized Mr. Hummel and alerted the authorities. Soon after, the media got a call from the hospital about King Blaine visiting Mr. Hummel which many took as confirmation that the couple had reconciled. Two weeks later, Mr. Hummel was released into the care of his family and another six weeks later, he returned to New York and to the stage where he reunited with King Blaine in front of the theater audience.

Alex stares at the page in shock because this sounds bad, like her dad could have died bad. So why are they letting the men who did this to Papa go? Why isn't Dad stopping it? If she were Queen, she would make sure those men never get out of prison.

"Did you know about that?" Karen asks quietly, looking just as shocked, and Alex shakes her head.

"No. He doesn't look like someone hurt him like this. He has this small scar on his tummy but Papa said it's from when he hurt himself playing in grandpa's shop when he was young and it doesn't look like he had to go to the hospital to have surgery."

"I don't know what scars from surgery look like," Karen frowns, "but if your dad says it's from playing then that's the truth, right? I mean parents aren't supposed to lie."

"I guess," Alex agrees but she won't know until she asks Papa about it again.

Which she definitely will because what if this man comes to New York and hurts Papa again? Of course he's got Lauren as his guard and Lauren doesn't look like anyone could get past her, but Lauren's not with him when Papa's on stage and what if the man goes to the theater and then jumps on stage to hurt Papa?

"Your dad's page is much more interesting than my dad's," Karen interrupts her musings, scrolling down a new page. "It doesn't even say how he met my mom, only that she was his second wife and when they got divorced. Do you think they also met through a one night stand?"

"I don't know what that means," Alex admits because it's not a word she's heard before.

"Oh, me neither. Maybe it means they met and fell in love the same night?" Karen says and Alex shrugs.

"Can't you look it up?"

She watches over her shoulder as Karen types the word but when she hits enter, a page comes up that says parental approval required.

"Weird," Karen whispers and stuffs her phone into her pockets quickly when Hunter approaches the cubicle.

"Everything okay girls? Your not usually this quiet."

"Yes," Alex squeaks and quickly pulls one of the dresses over her head. "Haven't found the one yet."

"Alright," Hunter replies but she can tell that he's frowning because he's right, she and Karen aren't known for being quiet when they are together.

Determined to talk to Papa and Dad about it later tonight, she turns her attention to the dresses and luckily a creme colored dress with red ribbons fits her perfectly and costs less money than what Papa said she could spend.

Once they are done dress shopping, she convinces Hunter to let her and Karen go to Toys'R'Us next, so she can pick out Christmas presents for Jamie and Lillie. She's been saving her pocket money so this year she can buy her brother and sister a present because she knows that only Papa and Dad are fans of home made gifts. Fortunately, Jamie and Lilly are easy to shop for and she's glad when she doesn't have to be in the store long, because everywhere she turns someone wants to talk to 's rarely the kids who come to her - probably because they don't know yet who she is - but their parents pulling them by their hands and telling Alex that they have so much in common and maybe Alex would like to come play with their daughter some time. If it weren't for Hunter, she probably would have a hundred phone numbers by now from overeager parents. And what's worse, sometimes people say mean things about Karen when they don't think Alex can hear them, saying she isn't good enough to hang out with Alex because she's just some wannabe. But all Alex can do is smile and politely tell them to talk to Hunter because she isn't allowed to just go to someone's house.

They drop Karen off at her mom's apartment on the Upper West Side before Hunter drivers her back to the Palace so she can have dinner with her family. They don't eat together every night because most nights Papa has to be at the theater or Dad has work to do, but every Sunday night, when Papa's show has the night off, they all cook and eat together. When Papa or Dad cook, the food's never as good as when the Palace chef cooks it, but it's fun to go to the big kitchen and help with the cooking and not have the servants do it.

It's hard not to ask her questions as soon as she sees her dads, but if they haven't told her because they think she isn't old enough, then Jamie and Lilly definitely aren't old enough. She has to wait until they have told Lilly a story and put Jamie to bed but then it's finally just the three of them.

"Did you really get the scar on your tummy from playing in grandpa's shop?" she asks after changing into her pjs and crawling between her dads so they can watch a film together in the living room.

"Why are you asking, Honeybee?" Papa frowns and stops running his hand through her hair.

"When we were driving to the house today, this man on the radio said that they are letting this man go who went to prison for hurting you."

Next to her, Papa freezes and she catches him looking at Dad in alarm.

"Is it really true? Is that why you have that scar? Because you had to have surgery?"

"How much did they say on the radio?" Papa asks cautiously, probably because he doesn't want to tell her things she doesn't know already.

"Just that this man had to go to prison for fifteen years because he hurt you very badly," she lies, because Papa and Dad can't find out that Karen can look up more stuff on her phone than Alex. "Marley turned off the radio when she saw I was listening."

"It was a long time ago, Honeybee and I'm okay. You don't have to worry about me," Papa resumes running his hand through her hair, but Alex isn't satisfied.

"Why are they letting him go? What if he comes here and hurts you again. I don't want you to die." She forces down the tears threatening to spill because she doesn't want to lose her dad.

"Hey," Papa pulls her into his arms and hugs her tightly. "He's not allowed to come here. Not for some time. They sent him to prison in Nebraska and that's where he has to live for now."

"But why did they let him go?"

"Because this is how it works, Honeybee. If you do something bad, a judge decides how long you have to go to prison for and if you behave and don't do something bad again, then you can leave prison when you've served your sentence. Unless people have done something really, really bad, we don't lock them up for the rest of their lives."

"Well, you should," Alex huffs and glares at Dad. "When I'm Queen I'm going to change that."

"Trust me, Honeybee, I'd feel better too, if those men who hurt Papa would never leave prison but I also have to follow the law," Dad says and she notices that his hands shake slightly. "Even a King or Queen can't just do whatever they want. You can ask the government for help to change laws you don't like but unless they do, you have to follow the rules too, okay. That's why I am King and not a dictator."

Alex's eyes widen. They've learned about dictators in school, about how in a few countries, men killed the ruling monarchs and made themselves leaders of the country and the people couldn't do anything against it because everyone who protested was put in prison. She definitely doesn't want to be a dictator because dictators are nasty people.

"You're really okay?" she turns back to Papa because how can he be after what she read about his injuries on this website.

"I promise I'm okay. It happened a long time ago and I barely ever think about it."

Papa's looking at her all earnestly and she just has to believe him, because like Karen said, parents aren't supposed to lie.

"Can I asked you something else?" she mumbles getting a little sleepy now that it's close to her bed time.

"Of course Honeybee, you know you can always ask us anything," Dad says and smiles at her encouragingly.

"This kid at the shelter said you met Papa when you had a one night stand. What does that mean?"

Two things happen at the same time. Papa turns the darkest shade of red she's ever seen on a person, and Dad chokes and has a coughing fit, his whole body shaking with it.

"Is it something bad? The boy also said you had a girlfriend when you met Papa, but you always said you only like boys not girls," she soldiers on, because how is she supposed to defend her parents when people call them weird, when she doesn't know everything about Papa and Dad, only what little she's learned in school so far.

"This one's yours," Papa glares at Dad and she's not sure what he means, that she's Dad's kid or that it's Dad's question to answer. "I told you we should screen the kids who get to talk to ours."

"Honeybee, maybe we should talk about this when you're a little older," Dad wheezes. "I'll tell you everything in a few years."

"I could ask my teachers if you don't want to tell me," Alex threatens and Dad's expression tells her she's won before he manages to protest and says that alright, he'll tell her.

"I did have a girlfriend when I met your Papa but she wasn't really my girlfriend. My father King Richard, he didn't like that I like boys and so I pretended to have a girlfriend so grandpa wouldn't be mean to me. It wasn't nice of me though, because I didn't tell Lady Charlotte that I didn't really want to be her boyfriend and didn't really want to marry her. She was very angry with me when I told her, but that was her right because I lied to her for a few years and made her believe we were getting married. And then I met Papa and I liked him a lot, so we talked all night and in the morning he was my boyfriend."

"That's it?" Alex asks skeptically, because the website said there was a scandal and that doesn't sound like a scandal. "So if I meet a boy I like I can have a one night stand too and then he'll be my boyfriend?"

"Absolutely not," Dad exclaims immediately. "At least not until you're at least twenty years older," he adds after taking a few calming breaths and it hits her.

"Are you not telling me because this is about sex?"

Papa's face turns from red to white and Dad opens and closes his mouth like a fish.

"You said people have sex when they want to have a baby, but in Papa's movie Carrie and Liddy have sex but they don't have a baby, so I guess you can also have it when you don't want a baby?"

"When did you see that film? You're not old enough for it!" Papa says his face slowly turning back to his normal pale.

"I wanted to know why I wasn't allowed to watch it so I borrowed your DVD," Alex says defensively, because if Papa hadn't said she's too young for it, she wouldn't have been so interested. "

"We'll talk about that later," Papa says in his 'you're in trouble, young lady' voice but Alex rolls her eyes.

"I don't get why I couldn't just watch it. There wasn't even any blood or guns. I'm allowed to see films where people shoot guns."

"Well, the government thinks ten year olds are too young to watch films where people have sex."

"Why? You already told me about it and I also learned about it in school."

"I don't know, Honeybee. I don't come up with those rules."

"Well they're stupid. But you're not answering my question."

Dad sighs and turns on the couch so they are face to face.

"When two grown ups have sex only one time, then people say they had a one night stand. It's usually people who are not dating or married and don't see each other again after. And it's not something bad necessarily as long as both grown ups are okay with it and they are being careful, but having sex when you are not in relationship has a bad reputation. Especially the church thinks, people shouldn't have sex until they get married because sex is only for making babies."

"But you can't make babies and you had sex. Why?"

"Because it feels good," Dad's face is nearly as red as Papa's face was before.

"But it's only for grown ups?" Alex asks to clarify.

"Yes. You shouldn't have sex until you're quite a bit older and have a boyfriend you really love. Don't grow up too quickly and rush into things. And don't ever let anyone pressure you to have sex. Only you can know when you feel ready for it and if a boy ever tells you he won't like you anymore if you don't have sex with him, then he wasn't worthy of you to begin with. And if having sex is something you actually think of before they teach you about making sure you don't have a baby when you don't want one in school, you come and talk to us. I promise we won't be angry and Papa and I won't tell you what you can or can't do with your own body either, but I want you to talk to us. I can't tell you to never have a one night stand because that would make me a hypocrite, but ideally, you will only ever have sex with someone you love very much and are in a relationship with, okay? And you will need to make sure, you are very private about it because when I had sex with Papa the media wrote about it and everyone in the country found out. And that was pretty bad."

It's a lot for her to take in, but Alex nods. She'll talk it over with Karen during recess tomorrow, but it's not like she's in any hurry. Having sex involves kissing people and though she doesn't think all boys are icky anymore, she doesn't want to kiss anyone yet.

"I think I'm gonna go to bed," she yawns and when Papa and Dad offer to tuck her in, she shakes her head because she's not a baby anymore.

"That wasn't so bad, right?" she hears Dad say to Papa as she leaves the living room and Alex stops for a moment so she can eavesdrop.

"That was mortifying," Papa says. "And I can't believe I didn't see it coming. Of course the kids will find out about our past eventually. We can regulate what they can look up on the Internet and what TV programs they get to watch, but they go to school and interact with kids who don't have those restrictions. They're gonna find out about it whether we want them to or not. And we have two more. One time was already bad enough, I don't want to have to explain to Lilly and Jamie in a few years how Papa and Dad drank too much alcohol and went back to Papa's place to have sex even though they'd only just met. God, now I know what my dad must have felt like when he found out about it. That's not something you want to have to tell your kids or your parents."

"Maybe we get lucky and they'll ask Alex, or they have friends who already know those kinds of things," Dad jokes but she can see Papa shake his head.

"I don't want some kid to tell our kids god knows what about sex. I really don't want to do this two more times, but I think it's best if it comes from us. School will only tell them so much, and I don't want the kids to rush into something and worst case scenario get into serious trouble. Because if you thought our scandal was a big scandal, just imagine if the crown princess ends up an unwed teen mother."

"Oh my God," Dad gasps. "Do you think it would be illegal if we hide the pill in her food just to be safe? We did it with Coco when she was too young for sterilization."

"Blaine," Papa gasps, "you did not just compare our daughter to our cat. Besides, she's a good kid and we got to trust that she'll do the right thing. She's growing up and we can't stop that as much as we may want to."

She leaves them at this because it's nice to hear that her parents think she's a good kid. Though she's pretty sure she won't let Dad anywhere near her food from now on if he wants to feed her pills. Because that's just plain weird.