"I'm worried about Louise. The Queen was the centre of jealousy, and died because of it..."
She has a terminal case of dumb bitch syndrome lml.
What she said can literally be interpreted as 'Since Louise is so exceptional and I have a massive inferiority complex, I'm jealous of her/I'm jealous shes engaged to the prince", therefore, "I want to kill her"
(she made it clear to simon in the next few lines that she liked ian, so ofc she'll be jealous of louise)
Author missed a chance to give stella a beat down, if only simon read between the lines. UNLESS it was intentional for simon to ignore stella's insinuation, kinda sus. But i'm banking it as the author not realising the double meaning in stellas words (i fkn hope so), which is--yano--sucky cause you'd think the aristocrasy attending a prestigious academy would be able to catch double meanings.
Stella isn't very cunning, sure she can be manipulative but jesus shes so dumb.
anyone know where this is in the novel?
There's nothing like this in the novel. The novel was already completed a long time ago