[00:10.81]Long ago and far away,
[00:12.96]in a village high on a mountaintop,
[00:14.93]something amazing was occurring:
[00:17.94]at the very same moment,
[00:19.41]two identical baby girls were born.
[00:21.94]
[00:24.78]one,a baby princess.
[00:27.36]The king and queen were overjoyed.
[00:29.61]
[00:30.53]Princess Anneliese would have only the finest.
[00:33.58]
[00:37.38]The second baby girl was named Erika.
[00:39.68]Her parents loved her every bit as much as the king and queen loved the princess,
[00:44.70]but they worried,they were so poor.
[00:47.82]How would they be able to care for their little daughter?
[00:51.05]
[00:53.69]Many years passed.
[00:56.02]The princess learned her royal duties,
[00:58.74]while Erika worked long and hard as a seamstress for the spiteful Madame Carp.
[01:02.99]
[01:05.25]With lives so different,
[01:06.38]it wasn't surprising that the princess and the pauper never met.
[01:10.82]But fate decreed they would.
[01:14.98]
[01:36.16]It all started at the royal mine...
[01:38.73]
[01:40.82]when the miners informed the queen the gold had run out!
[01:44.84]The widowed queen was shocked.
[01:47.13]The kingdom was now bankrupt.
[01:49.84]How was she going to take care of her people?
[01:52.15]If only she could call on her trusted advisor,Preminger.
[01:56.65]But he was away on a long journey.
[01:59.61]She needed to do something quickly to save the kingdom.
[02:02.69]But what?
[02:05.10]And then it struck her.
[02:07.38]Nearby lived a rich young king,who was seeking...a wife.