Once upon a time there was a Snow Queen (this is a very different version, very different from the first version, you'd hardly recognize it, so "retold" doesn't even count) and a group of children, hers and the Snow King's. They lived high in the mountains of Sweden, nearly Lapland, it was so far North. Anyway, the Queen was a gargoyle to look at, fat and dumpy, unlike the King who could do a jig he was so in shape. She had moreover a chrysalis mouth, which looked like it was going to say something clever but never did. The children prayed she'd never have any money. Why? Because the daughter hated her, thinking she was a hag of a Queen because she never gave them any money. The Snow King told them that she was.
She never gave them any money because the King never gave her any except for Christmas presents. But the King forgot that part, not being very bright. He gave her money for Christmas presents for them and him, that's all, and she was free to use the charge card for anything else she needed but no money was given her apart from the gift money for him and them. Her Mother bought her clothes usually, coz she felt sorry for her looking so scrappy if she didn't, in her view.
He thought she was a bad wife but she wasn't. Everyone in town knew she wasn't, but the children and him. She was a good wife and they were good town after she left because she was a good wife and they knew it.
She did everything she could to be good and they saw it in her face, and heard her on the phone being kind and correct in her behaviour. The husband thought she was a bad wife because he thought she had another man, and she didn't. Her Mother loved her and her father loved her, you think, but no they hated her and stirred things up against her, though they knew she was good, but they were criminals and were covering up their own crimes, the Mother and the Father of the Queen.
No one knew the children were brought up to hate her except them. One of them loved her anyway, Paul. One of them loved her anyway, Somerset. One of them loved her anyway, Brigham. On of them hated her anyway, Shoshana, who had a nib in her pen for writing against the Snow Queen.
She, sister Shoshana, turned them all against her you think, no , she didn't.
They loved her, the boys did, and the girl didn't and the Queen of the Snow thought girls were good and she didn't notice.
The missionaries came and ate with them and left a good Spirit in the home. They prayed for them sometimes.
People heard the King telling hate stories against the Queen to the children and they cried laughing when he said the Queen was a hateable person.
It turned out the missionaries prayed wrong not perhaps but a funny prayer because they thought the Queen was ugly. They prayed she'd leave her husband and get the children safe and then go back to him because she couldn't get another husband in their view because she was so ugly. They thought her eyes weren't ugly, they thought her nose wasn't ugly, they thought her mouth and her teeth were ugly. Wasn't that it? No, they thought all of her was ugly, siad the daughter if she'd been asked coz she thought it, the sister did.
Part Two
The Summer King was available and would have happily married the Snow Queen and they would have been happy. But he would have left her starving and taken the children to visit his Mother and brought them back in a year. (He wouldn't have known any better.) So maybe that's why they prayed that, the missionaries.
The end of the story is she, the Snow Queen and her friend the Summer King, got together after many hilarious adventures of the Snow Queen. She was jailed many times for nothing, but got out alive and went to the Summer King's Palace and left him a rose and married and lived happily ever after.
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