“I think you have been eating my sugar, you are too sweet and nice,” he said. You see this king was very jealous. He hated people talking to anyone else when he was around.

Katie began chatting with her friends again.

“You’re talking to all my friends. It’s not fair. They think you’re sweeter than me,” he shouted, jumping up and down. He became hot and flustered. His crown fell down over one eye."

The book also contains the historical background to the name "Katie", here are some of those facts:

The name Catherine, now more popularly adapted as Katie or Kate, probably derived from the Greek Katharos (pure), has many rich historical and religious backgrounds.

Our tale is inspired by Catherine of Alexandria. According to legend the 4th century Egyptian saint denounced the Roman emperor for persecution of Christianity. She then befriended and converted 50 pagan philosophers whom he had assembled to undermine her religion. Having rebuffed all attempts to limit her religious endeavours, she was sentenced to death on a rotating ‘Catherine’ wheel.

Catherine of Breganza, a gambling addict, was accused of attempting to poison her husband, Charles II of England.