The New Queen: Fantasy

After the Worker Boards and People’s Representatives were proven corrupt, after people were starving on the streets and jobs were necessities to prove you were a citizen, even if you weren't being paid for the job in anything but stale bread and thin soup twice a day, after the revolution and the decision to end the Grand Experiment, they found a queen. They found her, rather where she had been all along, working quietly sewing jumpsuits to the standard requested sizes, taking her bread and soup and being grateful for it, and scraping up maybe a little extra on the side by designing and hand-sewing clothing for those who wanted something better, or by doing alternations to make the standard jumpsuits actually fit the people they were issued to. She knew that her great-grandfather had been king, and she knew that her grandmother and her father had both lived out their lives in hiding because people were still looking for them, and the money from their royal artifacts still continued well enough for them to scratch out a living at the level that people in those eras considered to be a living, meaning that their children all lived because doctors, food, and shelter could be afforded. The money had run out when she was ten, much to her father's--


Inspiration: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eholubow/10368696496/
Story potential: High.
Notes: And nobody here really knows what to do with royalty anymore. But they know she has to have a palace, so they put her back in the old one, that had temporarily been refitted to industry and then fallen abandoned. And there's basically not a budget. And it's a whole lot of rebuilding, that's kind of the whole story. And maybe there's some magical element, too. There's certainly some odd diplomatic stuff--kind of as if North Korea suddenly emerged from their isolation. And isn't this photo just gorgeous?