A refreshing mother-daughter dynamic

Honestly, I appreciate the complex relationship/misunderstanding between her and her mother. I feel like it's a very realistic example of abusive family dynamics. How we view our parents when we are children and how we view them as adults can be drastically different depending on the circumstances.
Especially since as children our perception of people is often directly tied to our physical and emotional needs. Harlow's baby monkey experiment is a great example of this. When given the option, adolescent monkeys choose a soft, comfortable mother over one that is cold and hard but provides sustenance (food & water).
I think we see a similar dynamic between the MC and her parents. Her father, though evil provided her with the emotional comfort and care we look for as children. Whereas her mother, who we now know was the only one who truly cared for the MC's well-being, wasn't nearly as emotionally available. Thus resulting in the MC's skewed perception of their relationships.

Essentially,
The father controls his wife and child, by purposely tainting the relationship between them.

He controls his wife by:

-> Restricting her privileges to see her child
-------->resulting in an emotional gap/distance in the relationship as well as room for misunderstandings and a warped perception to occur
-> Holding the child's physical well-being as blackmail
--------> This keeps the wife in check and prevents her from acting out against him

He controls his child by:

->Restricting her privileges to see her mother
-------->resulting in the child feeling like they've been abandoned and aren't loved.
->Love bombing and Controlling her perception of reality
--------> An abandoned child will seek additional love and comfort and therefore be more trusting towards their benefactor. The father takes advantage of this and manipulates the MC into blindly doing what he and the prince ask.
->Groom/brainwash/question their other relationships
--------> To maintain control, the abuser will also make the child question every relationship outside of 'their parent-child relationship.' This prevents the child from going against their benefactor because they are raised to believe only their benefactor truly cares for them

We see this in real life quite often with narcissistic parents and those who use their children as ways to control and f over their partners. A good example is people who fight to have custody over their children, despite not actually liking or wanting their kids.