Edyva

Edvya Thorne was the daughter of Baldric Thorne. Because she was his only daughter, he sought to protect her from anything and everything. To do so he confined her to within the palace walls. This confinement caused her to yearn more and more for the outside world as she grew older, and drove her to devise a plan to swap clothes with a simple miller maid. Once she had traded her beautiful gown and tiara for the soiled rags of a commoner, she had no trouble slipping past her guards.

Upon realizing the princess was gone and a commoner had taken her place, Baldric, in a fit of rage, ordered his entire army to scour the city for her, as well as the commoner girl's family captured, tortured, their house destroyed, and then them thrown into the oubliette.

Luckily Edyva was quickly found in a market not far from the palace. Upon her return, she explained the entire ordeal was her idea and pleaded with her father to free the miller's family. Realizing his rage was misplaced and unwarranted, he freed the miller's family, personally apologized to them, had their home rebuilt by the royal architects, and swore to spend a day as the little girl's personal seneschal. He stated that high or lowborn, each and every girl is a "lady" in their own right.

Rumors of this display of humility made their way through to the people, who received the story so well that public perception of the sultan changed dramatically, and the holiday Little Ladies' Day was created.