Royal Palace
"She met with someone?" Anastasia looked at Gavin, who had brought the news. After becoming queen, she had asked Gavin and Alden to become her personal guards. She knew she needed people who would be loyal to her.
These two had kept silent about the kidnapping incident, so she brought them to her side. After becoming royal guards, they trained for a month and learned the palace rules before being sent to her service.
Anastasia also allowed the king give them some merit. Since the real situation of the kidnapping could not be told, she simply made up a story about them aiding her ecape from the kidnappers. Edward had not paid much attention to Anastasia's situation so he did not notice the loop in her tale.