Bertie and Beatrice's Dreams Part Two
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🗓️ 30 March 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
See you soon, for now, from me, Natasha !!!!!
Queen Mab is passing over the pond and the palace distributing dreams. The wicked Queen is awake and she stops to ask her a question. What dreams should she pass on in the palace? The queen tells her that in her heart Beatrice wants to escape being a princess and does not want to marry the dreadful Bertie. She should dream of being a normal person.
When Beatrice awakes she goes to ask Bertie about his dreams. She tells him hers and concludes that they just don’t have the same dreams anymore. When two people are in love, she says, they should have exactly the same dreams.Bertie would never dream of becoming an ordinary citizen. He says it is not just selfish, but when you are born into something privileged you also have responsibilities. She says he sounds like his father and packs her bags (though Bertie thinks it is just a mood).
Beatrice heads off into the world. The Wicked Queen is jubilant.
First Beatrice has to rent a room. She lives with a family and gets a job in a coffee shop. She perfects the art of making little leaf shapes.
She gets fired from the coffee shop, and then she gets a job in a kitchen with a shouty chef, and then she applies to be a traffic warden giving out parking tickets but she falls for every sob story.
Eventually she does succeeed doing something … not sure what… but she misses Bertie. Maybe she becomes a successful comedian - something that Bertie always wanted to do.
“Bertie, will you have me back, even though I tell better jokes than you do?”
Bertie is constantly sending her texts and emails with sweet little poems and messages.
He turns up in the audience for one of her comedy shows and begs her to come back to the palace.
At some point she is crying and an old lady comforts her and assures her that if she was lucky enough to be able to marry a prince, that is exactly what any poor girl would do.
She starts to dream of her life of luxury - of her charity work and her help for the palace kids - and of Bertie.
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| 0:00.0 | Bertie and Beatrice's Dreams Part 2 |
| 0:03.0 | Hello, this is Natasha and I'm picking up where we left off with the story of Bertie and Beatrice's dreams. |
| 0:15.0 | Princess Beatrice has decided in a dream that she wants to be ordinary. |
| 0:20.0 | When she wakes up she gives away all her lovely clothes |
| 0:23.6 | and leaves the palace to start a new life in the real world. |
| 0:32.6 | Beatrice's new home was a room in the loft of a tall house. |
| 0:42.3 | She gazed out of the window at the terrace of houses across the street. Each house was a carbon copy of all the others, except for the colour of the door. |
| 0:50.3 | There were red, green and blue doors. |
| 0:53.3 | To some people, this might look like a drab, ordinary street, she thought. |
| 0:59.0 | But to me, it is a dream come true. |
| 1:03.0 | A family lived in the house. |
| 1:06.0 | The mother was called Angelina, and she said that Maureen, |
| 1:10.0 | because that was what Beatrice had pretended |
| 1:12.5 | her name was, could live in the loft room if she got the kids up in the morning and took them to |
| 1:18.7 | school. Beatrice, or should I say Maureen, was more than happy with this offer. The kids, Charlie and Ellie, were perfectly nice, though as |
| 1:30.2 | with all kids, it was a bit of an ordeal getting them to put their shoes and coats on. |
| 1:38.5 | After she dropped them off at school, Beatrice went to look for a job. She walked down the high street until she came to a coffee shop with a notice in the window that read, |
| 1:50.1 | New coffee maestro wanted. She summoned up all her courage and went inside to ask if she could speak to the manager about a job. |
| 2:01.0 | Have you ever worked in a coffee shop before? asked Jenny, who ran the shop. |
| 2:06.6 | No, said Beatrice. |
| 2:08.7 | But I'm very artistic and I know how to paint smiley faces and leaf shapes in the froth on the top of the coffee. |
| 2:17.5 | Well, that's a good start, said Johnny. |
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