In Perrault's story, the queen of the kingdom has orcish origins. When the King, son of the Queen, leaves for battle he entrusts not only the kingdom but also his wife and two children to his mother. The queen never truly grows fond of her son's family, because she catches on to his plan to lie about how the two came to love each other. With this knowledge bottled up in her head for at least two years and the right conditions, the queen comes to not only want to kill her son's family, but to want to eat them. When she discovered that she had not eaten them but that she had been served meat with a very elegant sauce, she became angry. Perrault shows here how the queen may have been "sober" for several years, or since she became queen, but how quickly she lost sight of the love that once lay in her heart. The queen immediately sentenced her son's family and the kitchen boy, who had lied to her, to execution. She is so enraged by what happened to her and she went back to killing just to satisfy herself, not for a queen's ideology but for her own ideology. Once they are about to be executed, his son, the king, returns and sees what is about to happen. Perrault says: “No one dared to tell him, when the Orca, all enraged, did so