She's almost seven now....How am I to make it clear to you hat Sophia might one day become a queen?"The young girl objected to her mother's future plans for her: "I don't want to be a queen, Mother.My men assure me that none of the royal family escaped alive"), but he had obviously failed.The King (with support from his advisors) was pressuring his pretty daughter - Princess Gwendolyn (Angela Lansbury) - into a politically-important marriage with Sir Griswold of the North (Robert Middleton), who was arriving the next day for a tournament.At the crime scene, the police chief confidently announced that the "alphabet bandit" had been killed and the case was closed ("There will be no F crime")." She cautioned: "It's just gonna add fuel to the lynch mob fire." He countered: "Besides, bad taste is the petrol that drives the American dream."[DREAM SEQUENCE]As Laurie sleepily sat in her bathroom while waiting for shower water to heat, she imagined herself acting out a murder - she saw herself in a clown costume reach for duct tape and a large butcher knife, which she used to tape Annie o an armchair, and then slit her throat(# 9 death)(in dream).