The troubles of being a royal

AN: The wedding and finally meeting the characters of the princess diaries will appear in the next chapter. In my story Michael remained in the picture and eventually married Mia when she turned twenty one and became queen. And Michael turned twenty four and became king. Lily and Jeremiah are also married as are Clarisse and Joe.


Harry Potter And The Troubles Of Being A Royal
Proposing And The Family History


Merely three days later Harry and the others flooed to the palace from Hogwarts thankfully the palaces fire places were connected to Albus’s office. Albus had flooed the parliament in France requesting that the floo system at the palace was to be activated as the true heir and his fiancée would be traveling to the palace with in the next few days, wanting to prepare for their wedding and coronation.

The parliament had been thrilled over the fact parliament would no longer have to run the country, and that the true heir to their country was returning to claim what was rightfully his.

Harry and Ginny were currently waiting in Albus’s office with her family and Hermione, whom was all, going to go with them to the palace to help them prepare for the wedding and coronation. Ginny just hopped her mother did not clash with the wedding planners. Wedding planners were needed seeing as this wedding was on such short notice and above all it was the wedding of the newly reinstated crowned prince of France.

Ginny smiled as she looked down at her engagement ring that she had only received at the weekend just past. It had been a week since Harry had discovered his true heritage. Ginny had been shocked when less then a week after finding out about his rightful royal status he had got down on one knee in the kitchen at the burrow during breakfast and had proposed to her in front of Hermione, Sirius and Remus and her family.

*Flash Back*

They had all been still discussing what had happened and had been discovered on the night of Harry eighteenth birthday party. The next morning when everyone had gone down to breakfast they had been informed after everyone had finished eating. Harry had allowed all of them to see the letter with the official royal Potter family crest on it, so they would be able to see it was not a joke or a farce.

Everyone had been stunned. The twins teased Ginny over the fact she was finally going to get her wish since she was a little girl and become Mrs. Harry Potter. And becoming the future queen of a not so small country was just merely the icing on the cake.

Ron and Hermione had stated that they could not get their heads around the fact that they had been friends with not only the savior of the wizarding world, but in fact also a crowned prince and future king of France.

Hermione had gushed over the rings Harry and Ginny were wearing. Harry explained they had been in his family and worn by the current king and queen for many centuries, and many generations. Hermione being Hermione just couldn’t help but mention that Harry and Ginny were current the next king and queen of France. Both Harry and Ginny had looked absolutely terrified.

So they had been sitting at breakfast at the burrow merely four days after Harry’s birthday. Harry had wanted to propose to Ginny when she would be at least expecting him to do so. He had been sitting by Ginny at the table in the kitchen, when he had gotten off his chair and had pulled a box out of the pocket of his jeans. He had then gotten down on one knee after winking at both Sirius and Remus who had been visiting that morning along with Harry. He looked up at Ginny and had to stifle his laughter at the expression on her face. He knew perfectly well that she was more then aware of what he was about to do and ask her.

He spoke “Gin I realise that this was not how I imagined I would be asking my bride to be to marry me. And it more then likely isn’t how you envisioned it either. I imagined I would date and be engaged to her for at least three years. But unfortunately time does not seem to be on our side does it? So I figured we might as well make the most of the situation, its not like it’s an awfully painful situation is it? So I’m asking you Ginevra Molly Weasley” he grinned at the face she pulled at his using of her whole name. That gained more then a few chuckles from everyone else as well. He continued “To consent to being my wife, will you marry me?”

Ginny smiled slightly and replied jokingly “Of course, It’s not every day a girl is given the chance to be a queen. And I mean I could have ended up with Conner’s. And thankfully for me you Potter men aren’t what I would call trolls. So yes I will marry you Harry, but on one condition. Don’t ever call me Ginevra in my presents again.”

Harry snorted and said flippantly “Well I can tell someone is going to have a few minor problems.” He opened the box and revealed a ring that was almost as beautiful as the rings she and Harry currently wore. The ring was made of solid pure white gold, and had a large heart shaped ruby in the centre and the rest of the band was deeply encrusted in the finest cut diamonds all the away around. The jewels sparkled dramatically.

Ginny let out a low whistle and chuckled “Wow Harry it’s incredibly beautiful, it’s absolutely stunning.” And it truly was there was no doubt about that. Harry explained “Gin this ring is over six hundred years old. It’s is a precious Family antique and heirloom. For the last six hundred years every single Potter male would give this ring to his future bride. You see for the last six hundred years the first born heir has always been a male and the second born normally a female. My mother was the last queen to wear this ring she wore it for a few short years. I’m hopping you would consent to willingly wear this ring for more then a few years.”

Ginny smiled and held her left hand out in a gesture of her consent. Harry beamed and gently slipped the ring over and down her ring finger. Before he released her hand he gently and lovingly smoothed his fingers down her wrist. This gesture was most certainly not lost on everyone else. They all had an inkling that Harry and Ginny had been deeply in love with each other since her fourth year and just after his fifth year after the department of mysteries. They had both just been far too stupid and stubborn to admit to have falling in love with each other.

Harry rose to his full height of six foot and retook his seat beside Ginny and Sirius. Ginny suddenly looked very thoughtful and asked “And why am I going to have a few minor problems?”

Harry sighed and replied “Well I’m going to be quite frank with you here Gin. You see I highly recommend you get more acquainted with the term Ginevra, Seeing as not many people are going to be willing or bother to call their future queen of their country Ginny. I was at the main Potter fault over here in England only the other day, when I had gone to retrieve my mother’s engagement ring. I noticed there was a huge tomb sized book in there along with various other jewels and antiques. It was a book based on the history of all the rulers of France, every last Potter. The book appeared to have magically corrected its self. Harry got up from the table and went into the living room to retrieve the book he had brought along with him that morning and brought it back to the table with him.

He placed the book between himself and Ginny and carefully placed the cover face down and opened the back of the book, showing Ginny the most recent pages added to the book. It showed four moving pictures and four names. The first names were King James Landon Potter and Queen Lily Annemarie Potter.

It showed four moving pictures beside the three names. The first picture was of both James and Lily together on their wedding day. The second was of James at his coronation, wearing the king’s crown for the very first time. The third picture was of Lily on hers and James’s coronation day. She too was wearing the queen’s crown for the first time. The fourth and final picture was of a new born Harry as he was officially being made the crowned prince. The name under the picture read the crowned prince Harry James Potter.

And then on the opposite page there was just two names, no painted portraits or pictures had been taken of Harry and Ginny yet. The names read as King Harry James Potter. And beside his name was written Queen Ginevra Molly Potter.

Ginny’s eyes widened and her jaw practically hit the floor, when she saw her name and the title that accompanied her name. And she was now in the Potter royal family book of pasted kings and queens of France. She also noticed as she carefully flipped through a few other pages, that some of the queens had been second born Genovian heiresses. So naturally an older sibling had taken the crown and throne, while they had married a French prince, namely a Potter. But she also noticed not all of the queens had been princess just like Lily and now she hadn’t, most of them had been princesses. But there had been at least forty or fifty of them that had been witches, never muggle woman. A few had been muggle born or half bloods but never pure muggles.

Harry grinned at the expression on her face, as did Sirius and Remus knowing exactly what she was seeing and had found and stunned her.

*End of flash back*