Meanwhile, Tom starts to get a little fidgety at the palace. The prince tries to tell everyone he comes across what happened to him, but it doesn't work everyone just thinks he's crazy.

Now he's just another poor person on the street. What he wasn't expecting was to be mistaken for Tom and kicked out of the palace because no one could recognize him without his fancy clothes. You know what's coming next: they decide to swap lives, just for a little while.īut right in the middle of all of this, the prince storms out, determined to discipline the guard who bruised Tom. Eventually Tom gets to tell the prince about his life, and the prince thinks this sounds amazing. Turns out they both have pretty terrible fathers, so we guess that's something to bond over. Surprisingly enough, the two little boys hit it off. Lucky for Tom, this attracts the attention of the prince, who rebukes the guard and lets our little pauper into the palace. When he gets a little too close to the gate, a guard attacks him. But he has a dream: one day, he wants to meet a real-life prince.Īfter dreaming about living in the lap of luxury, Tom makes his way to Westminster Palace one day. He has an abusive father and grandmother, a kind mother and sisters, and a pretty sad life. The other boy, Prince Edward of Wales, is obviously rich.įast forward a bit, and Tom is a young boy living in the slums of London. On a magical day in London, two boys are born into two different families, and they just happen to look exactly like one another.

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