Fairytale tale villian hasn't meet love interest yet
I'm writing a fairytale novel for National Novel Writing month. I'm stuck on two problems.
The first problem is that my fairytale villian who is a woman (Matilda) hasn't meet the King Richard's (the main character) love interest (Diana), yet. There is magic in this word but I don't want to do the magic methods (crystal ball or magic mirror or an hour glass) of the villian spying on Richard and Diana. I want Diana and the villian to have an in-person meeting. Then Matilda can start spying on Diana (not knowing she's Richard's love interest).
The other problem is I want the Matilda to start interfering in the love interests' lives after the villian found out they're love interests but I can't figure out how do that. I mean I know where it will end up in some kind of battle of the end but I need to figure out how to start the messing about.
All I have at the moment is I know that Matilda will disguise herself as someone younger but not too young and become King Richard's ward Isabelle's new governess.
This is what I ended up with:
The next day Diana went to the market place to get some spices for her Mom. There’s only is or a few left at the shop that sells spices and there is only Diana and another young woman there and Diana picks up the last spices that she needs and that made the other woman cry out “HEY I NEED THAT MORE THEN YOU DO! GIVE IT TO ME. MY CHILDREN WILL BE UPSET IF THEY DON’T GET THIS TONIGHT!” Diana said “My mom likes them too and I got the last ones you could come back tomorrow and make something else for supper.” The other woman “I WANT THEM NOW NOT TOMORROW!” Diana said “I could give you half of the spices since I’m only making a supper for two people.” The other woman “I WANT THE WHOLE THING NOT HALF!” Diana said “Okay your lost then!” and brought the spices and left the shop.