Raymond POV:
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Seems Ms. Natasha is not keen in letting us know the truth. So I will do the honours. I looked at everyone and I understood nobody knew what happened and what was happening.
--------------Narration Incidents By Raymond:
More than 28 years ago:
Liam Luxembourg who was and is a notorious and greedy businessman wanted to marry Natalie who is the queen of Luxembourg.
At that time Francis business wasn't running well and was in losses. Francis asked Andrew and Richard- both his friends to help him. However Andrew and Richard couldn't help because Arden's was hit by 2 natural calamities consequently.
Liam Luxembourg, met Francis who was in dire need of financial help at the same time and promised to help him. In return he asked Francis to help him meet Natalie. Francis wife Selvia was Queen Natalie's best friend and so Francis through Selvia made Natalie meet Liam. Eventually Liam displayed his charms and Queen Natalie married Liam. Andrew and Emilie by then had a girl named Samaira.
Liam as he was greedy wanted to rule even Ardens when he got to know that Emilie is sister of Natalie and Francis is friend of Andrew. Liam very cleverly made a plan and promised to help Francis whenever he requires only if Francis helped Liam in his plan. The plan was to make Andrew sign papers which states that kingdom of Ardens would pay a per capita income of some % for 28 years and if Ardens doesn't have any heir then after 28 years it will be merged into Luxembourg.
This sort of agreement was made because:
1. Liam and Francis through Natalie got to know that Emilie had issues after Samaira was born and it was almost impossible for Emilie to conceive another child.
2. Liam knew that till 28 years of marriage Natalie has all the powers over Luxembourg. Later Natalie can transfer some or all powers to her husband to govern the kingdom and Only Natalie can decide who the next heir can be.
3. He didn't want to showcase his true greedy self before Royals of UK and Belgium nor before his wife.
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I paused and looked at everyone. Then continued "if you are wondering anything else: Natalie and Liam have just completed 28 years of marriage and Liam got all powers over Luxembourg except to decide the next heir''
Everyone gasped listening to it. I gave them time and continued
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So back to where we stopped. Yeah regarding the papers!
Francis tricked Andrew and got the papers signed. On the day Samaira turned 5, Liam and Francis sent a lady to kill little one and once Samaira was killed, Ardens didn't have any other Heir. They (Liam and Francis) thought their plan was success and one day Ardens would be merged into Luxembourg.
However their happiness was short lived when Emilie miraculously got pregnant with her second child Tiara. When Liam and Francis got to know this news they tried to kill the unborn baby and in that process my mother Riana died saving Emilie and unborn Tiara. Tiara was born after few months and threats and attempts to kill her continued despite having full security.
That was when Andrew made a will stating that when Tiara turns 25 she would be the princess and if within 25 years she doesn't find a life partner on her own she would get married to me Raymond Daniel Samson who is the son of Richard Daniel Samson , the best friend of Andrew. He also stated that if Tiara dies under the age of 25 then I Raymond Daniel Samson would be the next heir of Ardens.
Andrew always wanted Tiara to get married to me. Since Tiara didn't seem to be safe he sent her to London and kept her hidden. She was kept caged and was not allowed to go out or speak to outsiders. She basically was not given a chance to choose her partner. Since I was expected to marry Tiara, my life being a kid then was also under threat, so I was being sent to London and was kept under the care of my foster parents and was forced to keep my real identity hidden. That's how I became Director Daniel from Raymond Daniel Samson.
What Liam and Francis didn't know was Tiara was staying in the mansion owned by Liam in London. Andrew was smart enough to make Tiara stay in Liam's mansion because that is the only place he wouldn't even think of checking. Nobody except Andrew, Emilie, Richard, my foster parents knew where I was growing up.
Now this was one side of happenings in Ardens which some of you already know. The second unknown side of this story was happening in Luxembourg.
Liam was and is a horrible husband to Natalie. He married Natalie only to become the king of Luxembourg. He couldn't leave or kill Natalie because of the will that Natalie held. After they got married Natalie Luxembourg got pregnant and went to Belgium for delivery, while Liam was in Luxembourg governing. Natalie gave birth to a still born child and post the child birth she had severe complications because of which she had her uterus removed implying there is not even a minute chance to have another child.
Coincidentally Daria Richardson wife of Lewis Richardson (foster parents of Tiara) who was the most trusted staff of Royals of Belgium also gave birth to twins Natasha Richardson and Sasha Richardson the same day. Natalie who was grief struck then, met Daria and Lewis and requested them to let her take one girl child and assured them that if everything goes fine, Natasha would become the heir of Luxembourg. Lewis and Daria agreed and this secret was not known to anyone; not even to Liam and Royals of UK and Belgium.
Later Lewis and Daria Richardson were asked to take care of Tiara by Royals of Belgium and being the trusted staff they took the complete responsibility of raising Tiara and Sasha and never did they hint about Tiara to anyone. Not even to Natalie.
Natalie took Natasha and went to Luxembourg. She for some reasons didn't let outer world know of Natasha. She made Liam agree to keep identity of Natasha as secret owing to the safety of her. Liam didn't even have any hint that Natasha was not his blood and loved her as his own child. Everything was going good for father-daughter.
However Natasha was growing up being arrogant, violent and greedy – all thanks to the influence of Liam and Francis. Natalie who was observing how bad and violent Natasha was turning into called the doctors to treat Natasha of her behaviour, but Natasha was getting out of control. Liam, Francis and Nicholas's influence was making her worst. The doctors suggested Natalie to make Natasha away from Luxembourg, may be a place change would help. Natalie agreed to the doctors, but Liam denied. That's when Natalie decided to tell Liam the truth about Natasha's birth.
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9 months backs Natalie spoke the truth about Natasha's birth and Liam as expected got angered. He immediately disowned Natasha, without telling her the reason- this hurt Natasha real bad and she turned much violent and dangerous. After disowning Natasha, Liam started treating Natalie miserably.
Natasha knew that Liam would never allow her to become the queen of Luxembourg, so she decided to pursue her dream in her own way. Her dream of becoming the queen of Luxemburg and Ardens together.
I would not be wrong to say that "To become the queen of Luxembourg and Ardens turned into her madness".
Natasha already knew about:
1. the will that Andrew made
2. the fact Natalie had power to choose the heir of Luxembourg.
3. Tiara and I were somewhere in London
4. Liam wanted to kill Tiara and me at any cost before she turns 25.
So she (Natasha) made her own plans.
On the other hand when Natasha was disowned Natalie informed Lewis and Daria about the happenings. They felt bad and sorry and requested Natalie to send Natasha to London where they were staying, also requested her to allow Natasha to let stay in the Mansion. Natalie agreed and thought that it was for good of Natasha to stay away for some time and she hoped Natasha would have a change and warned Lewis and Daria of the behaviour of Natalie. Lewis and Daria decided that they will keep her in the mansion and wouldn't let her go anywhere and also would make sure to get her a psychiatric treatment.
Their first and greatest mistake Mr & Mrs Richardson made was to let Natasha stay at the abandoned Mansion of Luxembourg's.
Natasha reached the mansion and started living there, she planned to be in the good books of Natalie. So didn't try to get of the mansion forcibly but she definitely was making attempts, but Lewis failed all her plans. After repeated failure in her attempts to get out and also to be in good books of Natalie, she decided to plan everything from the mansion and get it implemented by Nicholas. Natasha was always in contact with Nicholas Ivan Francis and got the information of happenings in Luxembourg and sometimes even about Ardens.
Lewis and Daria on the other hand made sure Tiara and Sasha wouldn't even go anywhere around the Mansion at any point of time. But somehow Natasha happened to see Sasha her twin and Tiara one day. At that point of time she didn't know who Tiara is, that's because no one knew how Tiara looked as she grew up (except Lewis, Daria, Sasha, Richard, Andrew and Emilie.). When Natasha saw Sasha, she wanted to find out everything about her. She asked Nicholas to find out and then realised that Sasha and she are identical twins. She made plans to swap herself with Sasha. She waited patiently for months to observe, study and behave as Sasha. Finally she swapped herself with Sasha, caging Sasha in the mansion and she lived as Sasha in the staff quarters.
That was the time Tiara was extremely depressed about her independence. Natasha one day overheard Lewis and Daria's conversation and finally she got to know that Tiara is Princess Tiara, the one who Liam and she have been searching for years. She knew what she had to do. She started persuading Tiara to chase her dreams and if required go against Lewis and Daria.
Tiara completely turned against Lewis and Daria when they brought my proposal for marriage. Natasha also found out that Andrew and Emilie were coming to London from Ardens to meet and persuade Tiara and let her know everything and the need to marry me (Raymond). She cannot allow Tiara to know anything about her being Princess and future Queen, which will make Tiara get alerted.
Natasha took this opportunity to implement her plans.
1. Tackle Tiara
2. Find about Me (Raymond)
3. Stop Andrew and Emilie from meeting Tiara
She needed help of persons to do all this, and the persons who helped her were:
1. Nicholas Ivan Francis – He loved Natasha since childhood
2. Nick – he loved Sasha and would do anything for her
Natasha never let Nick know that Sasha was caged and she is not Sasha. Nick never doubted Natasha for not being Sasha.
Plan 1 was to tackle Tiara.
1. She made Tiara meet Nicholas through Social Networking. Nicholas as pre-planned with Natasha became friend and guided her to apply for a job in SGC
2. She suggested she would help Tiara escape from staff quarters once she gets her Job.
3. She took Ms. Mathilde into her confidence - by offering huge sum of money to recruit Tiara in SGC.
4. She choose Tiara to work for SGC because she wanted to know anything and everything about Raymond Daniel Samson.
5. Once Tiara was offered job, Natasha planned to send Tiara to Paris and would let her stay with Mr & Mrs D'Souza –Nick's distant relatives
6. Then she sent Nicholas to meet Tiara and Nicholas had to charm Tiara and make her accept to marry him.
Till then everything went well. However Lewis and Daria overheard the conversation Natasha had with Nicholas one day. They realised that one staying with them is Natasha not Sasha and she is about to harm Tiara. On the other hand Natasha also had doubt that they had overheard her conversation with Nicholas. She kept a check on them. She in pretext of missing Nick (who at that time was busy with implementing plan 2 of Natasha) requested Lewis and Daria to let her go to Paris.
They both agreed because they wanted to meet me (Raymond) as soon as possible. As soon as Natasha left to Paris, they informed Sasha everything they heard and about her twin Sister Natasha too and asked her to be careful. Natasha had already got her men to spy on Lewis and Daria in her absence. Natasha's men heard everything Lewis and Daria said to Sasha and informed Natasha the same. She got angered and ordered her men to stop the older ones by any means. But Lewis was a strong man, he fought back the men and Lewis and Daria reached SGC London office to meet me. They were informed very well beforehand who I (Raymond Daniel Samson) am and why I (Raymond) had to marry Tiara and everything about the will of Arden's heir. That's exactly why they came to seek my help. Unfortunately I was not in London and was in Paris.
Natasha tracked Lewis by her other sources and understood they would be reaching Paris. She had no other option but to kill them before they let me know the truth. So she deliberately did the accident right in front of SGC Paris and left from there to meet Nicholas in his office.
Unfortunately or rather fortunately Tiara reached Nicholas's office to surprise him and saw Natasha with Nicholas. Tiara had no idea about Natasha and Sasha being twins. She found Natasha with Nicholas and assumed Sasha has also betrayed her.
Natasha on the other hand reached London on the same day and that's when Sasha and Natasha had confrontation. Natasha killed Sasha and searched for the documents in the entire house that had details about Tiara, me and even her. When she couldn't find out she escaped after creating a mess in the house.
The second mistake that Lewis and Daria made was not informing Andrew and Emilie Ardens about the happenings in London.
Plan 2&3 was to find about me and stop Andrew and Emilie from reaching Tiara:
Natasha wanted to hit two birds with one shot. She planned to abduct Andrew and Emilie and keep them captivated till they give her information about me. By keeping them captivated there would be no chance for them to meet Tiara. To implement this plan she took help of Nick.
Natasha asked Nick to reach the guest house where Andrew and Emilie were to stay. Nick as per Natasha's plan reached there and informed Andrew and Emilie that Daria and Lewis were in Paris to meet Raymond and had asked him to bring them to Paris. When Nick spoke about Raymond, Andrew and Emilie believed that Lewis and Daria trusted him, else there is no way that Nick can know about Raymond. Also, Nick introduced himself as Sasha's boyfriend and any further doubts in their minds got erased.
Nick successfully brought them to isolated place and they were kept captivated while Ardens was being governed by Richard in their absence. For almost two months they were tortured but they never spoke a word. Natasha couldn't kill them because Emilie and Andrew had one copy of will that needs to be signed by Tiara, to give away the powers.
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I took a pause and looked at everyone and they were shocked is a least statement.
"Why did she abduct me then Raymond? From the Green House Lounge Paris when we were discussing deal with Mr. Cranfield?" Tiara asked
I smiled as I took a deep breathe to continue with further revelation
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"Power and greed to things that destroys the humanity of a human"