Ella Harper

**Ella Harper** is the main character in the novels the Paper Princess, the Broken Prince, and the Ruined Palace. She's supporting character in the rest of the Royals book series.

## Biography

She is the only daughter of Steve and Margaret. She was conceived on a night in which her father and mother were together, just for fun. For years her mother tried to contact her father, but she never had a success. Throughout Ella's childhood, she never had a fixed residence, since she and mother were always moving, because of her employers and lovers. Ella began working as an exotic dancer in order to save up money for college as well as to pay for her mother's medical bills for cancer treatment. According to Ella, they stayed longer in Seattle, because her mother had cancer. She became orphaned when she was fifteen years old, she became a stripper and lived in an apartment without any legal guardian.

Callum Royal finds and takes Ella to live with him and his five sons, he does this because he is her godfather. Steve, who was his best friend, realized that she was his daughter right before he died and left her to Callum.

**Paper Princess**:

Ella is not welcomed by Callum’s sons, Easton, Reed, Gildeon, Sebastian and Sawyer. At a party, Ella meets Valerie, the two become fast friends. As time passes, she ends up becoming closer to Easton, Who becomes her best friend and confides in him.

As much as Ella likes most of them, Reed still insists on treating her coldly and, for some reason, she tries to get close to him. From the beginning, she always loved and tried in every way to get his attention, so much so that she went to Easton to do things in Reed.

## Personality

Ella, who has lost her family, relies only on herself since childhood. She is strong and purposeful, used to achieving everything herself. Ella's character is very complex, the girl has been used to independence since the age of fifteen, having lost the closest person-her mother. She earned her own living by working at night and attending school in the morning. No one around her even knew that Ella had been orphaned until Mr. Royal arrived with the guardianship papers.

## Appearance

Ella is mostly similar to her mother in appearance, which made it easy to pass for her, such as height and similar facial features. Her eyes, like her father's, were described as a bluish-gray that resembled the Reed of the Atlantic ocean. Ella has natural golden hair.

Easton Royal describes her as stunningly beautiful.

Reed Royal says she has long legs , a small waist and perfect boobs.

## Relationships

### **Reed Royal**

She marries Reed Royal at the end of Cracked Kingdom.

### **Daniel Delacorte**

At first, Daniel was very charming and kind to Ella. Reed mentions that he is one of the good guys and is on the lacrosse team and she gets the okay from Easton as well. Savannah warns her about Daniel, though she ignores her. He attends a party with Ella, where she considers herself safe. But later, he drugs her and wants to rape her. Ella can't call for help because she was out of her mind, but she is saved by all five of the Royal brothers. Reed takes Ella home, and the other boys beat up Daniel.

**Valerie Carrington**

Ella first meets Valerie at a party on the first day she starts living with the Royals. She is the only one that is friendly to her and they hit it off immediately. Ella later finds out she is Jordan Carrington's cousin, and lives with her and her aunt in order to attend Ella's new prep school. She is Ella's first friend.

## Quotes

“It’s you. It’s always been you and I’m tired of fighting it.”

“My skill, if I have one, isn’t dancing. It’s my ability to believe that tomorrow can be a better day. I don’t really know where I got this optimism. Maybe it was from Mom. Somewhere along the line, I started thinking that if I just got through this bad experience, this bad day, that tomorrow I’d have something better, brighter... I still believe that. I still believe that there’s something good out there for me. I just have to keep going until my time comes, because surely, surely, none of this would happen if there wasn’t a reward down the line.”

“Reed Royal has broken me. I’ve fallen from the sky and I’m not sure I can get up. Not this time.”

“This will never by my home. I don’t belong in splendour. I belong in squalor. That’s what I know. It’s what I’m comfortable with, because squalor doesn’t lie to you. It’s not wrapped in a pretty package. It is what it is.
This house is an illusion. It’s polished and pretty, but the dream Callum is trying to sell is as flimsy as paper. Nothing stays shiny forever in this world.”

“I’m tired of playing the good, calm girl."

“Hiding's not a bad thing. If you run away, you live to fight another day."

“Oh my God. Was that a laugh? Reed Royal laughs, folks. Someone call the Vatican because an honest-to-God miracle has occurred.”

### **Facts**

* She learned to dance sozinha, since her mother did not have any money for dance classes.
* She admits to Reed that if Callum hadn't been kidnapped, he would go to a community college and would have a small house and a puppy.
* In Broken Prince she says that the only thing she can't bear to lose is Reed.
* She is very good at math and science, being praised by teachers, but she doesn't seem to care a lot about it.