She escapes the insulated confines of her royal prison to find a ""Prince Charming"" commoner - an American journalist-reporter (Gregory Peck) covering the royal tour in Rome.Two hands grab he ladder rung - the top bar of a roof ladder on a fire escape - as a fugitive is being chased across a flat San Francisco city rooftop.He flees the scene and runs through scenes of New York, with vengeful images of his pursuit and attack of Ratso - wish-fulfillment for his anger at being taken advantage of once again." She believes that their name-sake connection spans the distance and will miraculously bring him from Philadelphia to the West Coast:He""ll come for me.