I'm a guy but my personality is mostly androgynous so I really don't care if I'm confused for a girl. Well, online at least. I'm obviously a guy in real life.
The witch could be a servant who's more than meets the eye, or maybe the mother of a childhood friend of the queen? That would have allowed her to watch over the (at the time) princess while she's playing at her house. Maybe the witch had some sort of a premonition that allowed her to know that this princess would be the one to be queen, or just knew that it would be fate to watch over her, or maybe it's just coincidence (it doesn't have to be that large of a one because she was a princess, after all). Or maybe she even manipulated things to get her to be the one in line to become queen. That would be interesting. Convinced the prince and princess ahead of her to stand down, either kindly or otherwise. One way or another they did choose to do just that. I'm thinking the eldest prince is also a general so he didn't want to leave his troops in their war with the goblins.
It might be interesting if a character tries to assassinate the queen but she spares them from being executed so they realize she's not a bad person like they were told and teams up with her?
The witch could be a servant who's more than meets the eye, or maybe the mother of a childhood friend of the queen? That would have allowed her to watch over the (at the time) princess while she's playing at her house. Maybe the witch had some sort of a premonition that allowed her to know that this princess would be the one to be queen, or just knew that it would be fate to watch over her, or maybe it's just coincidence (it doesn't have to be that large of a one because she was a princess, after all). Or maybe she even manipulated things to get her to be the one in line to become queen. That would be interesting. Convinced the prince and princess ahead of her to stand down, either kindly or otherwise. One way or another they did choose to do just that. I'm thinking the eldest prince is also a general so he didn't want to leave his troops in their war with the goblins.
It might be interesting if a character tries to assassinate the queen but she spares them from being executed so they realize she's not a bad person like they were told and teams up with her?