While he was hitting at the rocks, a rock fell and cracked open after hitting Serafina. Julian tries to destroy the rocks with a pick axe but gives up. Anneliese is determined to stop Preminger, but Nick and Nack obscure the exit to the mines by blocking it up with boulders and rocks. Preminger shows them Anneliese's ring and is going to tell the queen that they died in a tragic accident, and then leaves the two to try and escape. He puts her in a room with a tied-up Julian, who was also captured earlier when he was caught trying to saving Anneliese. Once inside the mines, Preminger reveals to a confused Anneliese that he is going to marry her mother and be king. She realizes he was behind her kidnapping and he drags her into the mines, with Serafina following. Preminger takes the princess to the royal mines. She does not know his evil plans so she goes with him, even though Serafina is very distressed and apprehensive around him. However, Preminger finding Serafina and goes to the Dress Emporium to "rescue" Anneliese. The seamstress says that Anneliese doesn't have to do it, but Anneliese doesn't want to leave the seamstress to do everything by herself. Meanwhile, Anneliese tries her hand at sewing dresses, but is not very good at it. Their plan is for someone to be led to the Dress Emporium after they read the label, and rescue Anneliese. Later on, Anneliese gives her ring and a label off a dress that reads, " Made exclusively by Madam Carp" to Serafina. Anneliese is dismayed to be locked up again, but the other seamstress is very nice to her and believes she is the princess. Anneliese tries to tell Madam Carp not to talk to her seamstress so rudely, after she calls the other seamstress a lazy cow, but Madam Carp gets annoyed and locks them up until they finish all the dresses. When Anneliese tries to reveal herself to Madame Carp, Madame Carp thinks she is Erika and laughs at her. She goes to Madame Carp's Dress Emporium hoping for help, but Madame Carp treats Anneliese and her seamstress very disrespectfully. She is threatened by a guard to leave so she goes into the village, upset. When she gets to the palace, she is turned away because Erika, who is impersonating the princess while she is missing, is already inside the palace. Serafina becomes very distressed because she is separated from her mistress, Anneliese, they escape the next night by tricks Nick and Nack. Anneliese told Erika that she will send someone for her so she can sing at the palace, but that night Anneliese and her pet cat Serafina are kidnapped by Nick and Nack. The two girls realized their uncanny resemblance and become good friends. Julian decided to take her out for a day after hearing she would be married, so they went into the village, where Anneliese met Erika. Anneliese wanted to marry Julian, but she had no choice because she wanted to save the kingdom. When her kingdom went bankrupt due to Preminger, the queen's adviser who stole gold from the royal mine, the queen wanted Anneliese to marry the rich young King Dominick to save her kingdom.
Anneliese and Julian are both in love with each other, but kept it a secret, even from each other. As a young woman, Anneliese had learned her royal duties and was tutored by Julian. At some point in Anneliese's life after she was born, her father died, leaving her mother widowed. Her parents were overjoyed when Anneliese was born and knew she would have only the finest.
However, Anneliese had a crown shaped birthmark on her shoulder. She and Erika were born at the very same moment, and the two girls were lookalikes.