| “ | She wears my mother's crown, the finest clothes and spends the day ordering servants around. By dawn she has a hundred ducats, a pile of gifts but she is a servant girl once more. | ” |
The Bean Queen is an event that was held in Season One in the episode Monsters.
It is a contest for the castle servants whose winner gets to be the queen of France for a day.
During the Event[]
In Monsters, the court holds a contest of "Queen of the Bean." A giant cake is wheeled into the throne room and the servants gather round. Whoever finds the bean hidden in the cake gets crowned "Queen of the Bean" a kitchen servant named Penelope finds the bean and Queen Catherine takes off her tiara and crowns her Queen of the Bean. The "Queen" quickly attaches herself to King Henry and together they poison Queen Catherine after Penelope tells him that the Queen threatened to kill her if she didn't kill Henry first.
