text: 1980 Greenbrier Hotel lobby Molly Dunwald first saw Prince Nicholas VonFinn when she was 18 years old. She played the piano and sang at the Greenbrier Hotel which was a 5 star hotel in West Virginia. He wasn't particularly attracted to her at the time. She looked like a nice girl who had a royal air about her, but according to his aunt, "She was just a commoner." She also did flamingo dancing which she loved and it was a treat for the guests. She couldn't believe it when she was taking a break that the Uncle of Prince Nicholas whispered in her ears that "She was good mistress material and would make a good mistress for Nicky because she wasn't Finish." He found out that Molly lived in the nearby town of Finn. The town of Finn had been settled by Scandinavian settlers right after the Civil War. Most of them were from Finland and had come to the US after being kicked out by Prince Nicholas great-great-great-father who was the King. It was a land dispute but not really. The King wanted the children he fathered from his mistress 3 daughters to be exact to be out of sight and mind, so giving them land in West Virginia was one good way to do this. He paid others to leave as well, people he didn't like. In the town's celebrations, they had never mentioned the royal family of Finland or any other royal family. Finn was also a place where other European royals sent the children and mistress/girlfriends that they didn't want anyone to know about. This practice was common during the 1950's and 1960's. By the early 1970's, this had stopped. Molly Dunwald had black hair and dark brown eyes. She was very beautiful to look at. When he was a kid, the Prince had heard a story about a Spanish nobleman and a waitress at the Greenbrier (who was from Charleston West Virginia) who supposedly had a child together. The child was believed to being living in Finn. The Prince knew that Molly was the child. She looked like the nobleman whom the Prince had met a couple of times. The waitress wasn't Finnish was what he'd been told. &#x200B; The town of Finn had a weekend where they celebrated their Finnish culture. Certainly no one in West Virginia would recognize him and didn't when he went to the festival a couple of weeks before school started. He was well known among European royals. But no one in West Virginia outside of those who frequent the Greenbrier Hotel would know him. Molly was there and she recognized him and said hello to him but that was about it. He hadn't had much contact with those who lived average lives in Finland or the US. Two weeks after seeing Molly play the piano, Prince Nicholas started college. Finn College was a small private Lutheran college which had about 1, 500 students. He was surprised to see Molly at the freshman orientation meeting. He wondered if she would say hello to him. Molly was surprised as well to see a Prince at the college but ignored him. She knew who he was but didn't let on that she knew. They ended up in a film class together. "I need to find out who my biological parents are. I was left on a doorstep in Finn. I was adopted shortly thereafter." The Prince didn't know what to say as he already knew or had a good idea of who her biological father was." "One thing I know is that I'm probably not 100% Finnish. I certainly don't look the part." "Well, no you don't but you might have some Finnish, in you... "What if I'm the secret love child of a royal?" The Prince laughed. "I do know that you are not from the Finnish royal family. I researched it before..... "I know who you are Prince Nicholas of Finland. I researched your family." They both laughed and agreed to keep his royal heritage a secret. Within 2 weeks, the Prince's parents knew about their relationship. The Prince was falling in love with Molly Dunwald and they didn't know what to do. Thankfully no one in Finland knew. It had been easy to get the Spanish nobleman's DNA off of a wine glass at a wedding in Finland. A member of the royal family in Finland was an expert on DNA. A couple of weeks later at a blood drawing at the college, Molly's DNA was obtained discreetly. It was a match. Nicholas was told but he didn't tell Molly. Molly and Nicholas made a film about her search for her biological parents. Because she was royal, she was acceptable for him to date and marry. They weren't distant cousins which was good (many of the royal households were but the Spanish and the Finnish had never married into each other's royal households. In the Finnish constitution the royal heir and his wife had to be Lutheran to inherit the throne. This excluded many royal household, Spain being one of them. This made Princess Amanda very angry as she wanted to marry him. She didn't know about the royal blood that Molly had. She couldn't believe that Nick's family had blessed the union. She was going to do some investigating of her own.