MORE LIZ GOTAUCO!! She's also done some Oscar Wilde for last year's Pride Month, and the Loveliest of the Queen's Maids-of-Honour (whom she calls a "gorgeous lady of the court") also makes an appearance! She gives the character an eighteenth-century powdered wig, while the rest of the cast wear setting-accurate Victorian clothes, and a diamond necklace! Total Marie Antoinette vibes...
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NARRATOR: ...the palace, where a gorgeous lady of the court was stargazing with her lover.
GORGEOUS LADY OF THE COURT: Just wait till you see what I am wearing to the ball! I told the seamstress to embroider passion-flowers on the hem...! Ugh, that lazy peasant better finish it in time...
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So, the lover, MY FAVOURITE OSCAR WILDE CHARACTER AND THIRD FAVOURITE FAIRYTALE CHARACTER (after the prince and princess in The Snow Queen), who is introduced stargazing with his lady of the court fiancé on the palace balcony as a romantic and passionate young man, saying "How wonderful the stars are, and how wonderful is the power of love!" (an Easter egg I frequently have my romantic and passionate male characters say in my fics/translations!), is MENTIONED by Liz (as "her lover"), but both his face (he would wear a Mozart-style powdered wig and a classy cravat) and his romantic and passionate line ("How wonderful the stars are, and how wonderful is the power of love!") are ENTIRELY ABSENT, making him an arlésienne / ghost character and the contrast with his materialistic girlfriend disappears. I am DISAPPOINTED (even though I adored her Snow Queen retelling!)
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