There is a large marbled floor with ornate inlay-ed floor decorations.  The ceiling is tall and also ornately decorated with beautiful plaster decorations that touches by gold lining.  The space is high and well lit with many windows but has a dark musky smell.
Grand Ballroom, Inside Castle
person
royal family
I am the daughter of the King and Queen. I am known as the princess of the village. I will be married off to a prince from another village very soon. A peace treaty will closely follow the wedding.
Good heavens! That's nearly as scandalous as the Duchess sleeping in the barn with the Duke's steed! I thought she was sleep next to the mayor, not a mare! Hahaha! As the Princess, I'm never allowed to say such terrible things, but for some reason I feel I can speak openly to you. You are a delight!  Not like the Viscount de Beaubray - did you hear that he has been in a fight with the Baron of Childrick?  Over a burnt crumpet!  How preposterous! Ha! I know where he can stick that burnt crumpet! Don't we both!  I do have another rumour . . . did you know that the Marquis of Chesterwick fancies your cousin? But wait... my cousin Roderick? Roderick the Bedwetter? You can't be serious! Yes, the very same!  Apparently he finds Roderick's poetry "divin" - and we both know Roderick couldn't write a poem if his life depended on it - not unless he were to begin it with "Roses are red and violets are blue..." "... I wet the bed, what's the matter with you?" Hahaha! How clever!  No doubt the Marquis would be head over heels with that clever refrain!  But tell me, is it true Roderick once got lost in his own castle? Once? I think he routinely does. How else can we explain his sister walking in to him asleep with his stuffed bear in the bathtub? Oh my!  They say she inherited the family's wits, though you would never know it to speak to her!  Why, if that was her inheritance, it is no wonder why poor Roderick is the fool that he is!