To call life on the throne stressful is an understatement. Meetings, galas, court, legislation, diplomacy. The crown has its way of weighing each princess down.

This isn't actually a story about that. This is about the ones whose jobs mainly consist of distracting the royal family from their shared burden every now and then.

Confidants, concubines, friends, lovers, bedmates, sex slaves. Whatever you call them, they do their job in the dark, sheltered from all eyes but the royal family's and their most trusted friends.