Hear me out if I were to be Helena this is what I would've done:
1/ Scam the prince and his mamma for money (they call me Scammiana)
2/ Travel far far far away (with the money of course) where no one would catch me
3/ Build my own cottage and live my cottage core fantasy
4/ Marry a handsome & strong country boy who will love me and cut the wood for me and do all them hard chores. (so if by chance the prince and the other power ranger boys catch up to me, there's nothing they can do because I'm already married lmao)
Like honestly, girl.. You can always change your life, you don't have to live as a poppet for the prince and his mother who use you to showcase that they "care" when all they're doing is using you as a tool to feel better about themselves, if the prince loved you and showed a bit of respect to you as a human being he would listen to what you had to say instead of making assumptions and treating you like a damsel in distress all the fucking time! that shit must be tiring (he can also brake the engagement from the family he hates so much )... ain't nothing in this world is worth stomping over yourself and your desires for, so run away girl.
Shouldn't her father be in a mental hospital or something? he clearly has lost it when he blamed the carriage accident on his daughter... his daughter who was still a child and wasn't even driving the god damn carriage.. The moment he was neglecting her and abusing her and spewing all that nonsense about how she brings bad luck to whoever she's related to was the moment they needed to lock his ass up somewhere and try some shock therapy on his ass, maybe some electricity could light some sense into him lmao
Lmao yeah, or at least I think so, hence I mentioned shock therapy, because apparently that's what they used to do back then (many patients died because of it...), to put it blatantly, it's a place where they confine mentally ill people, or as they call them "crazy people" and basically experiment on them with different "traitements"..
I'm gonna tell you we are siblings, but first let me read you the entire bible before we get to that conclusion lmao