Fairy Magical Dominance...
Wizards have traditionally fought amongst themselves usually for power in many magical worlds.  Here it was done for prestige as well.  The Chief Wizard’s position is one of the most ancient and honourable roles and carries a great deal of privileges including being bestowed magical gifts by the fairy monarchs.  Wizards have killed for these gifts…  The fairies established their dominance over every other magical species many centuries ago by the simple premise of acting more brutally than everyone else.  The Queen has no problem with this.  Eileen isn’t comfortable with it though she concedes sometimes the fairies did what genuinely did need to be done to prevent something worse happening to the realm.

External Threats...
The Kingdom has faced external threats in its time.  At the time of Eileen’s story, this threat has been dormant for over a thousand years.  But the realm has faced and fought off all kinds of alien beings wanting to grab the magical resources of the Fairy Kingdom for themselves.  External wars are one of the few events which tends to unite the entire Kingdom.  Sprites who are usually despised are now considered upstanding members of the community as they fight really well and have a long and fairly good record in coming to the realm’s aid in its hour of need.  Naturally once any threats go the sprites resume being, in the general public’s eyes, lazy, ill mannered, fighting brutes, fit for nothing.  The sprite communities have got used to this.  It is partially deserved and that which isn’t, well they don’t bother fighting over that.  It just wastes time.

Sprite Communities...
The sprite communities have also been set up and accused of causing wars, usually by those witches or wizards, always keen for a scapegoat, who came off second best in the scrap and want the fairy royals to take their temper out on someone else.  It has never worked though it has done nothing for the sprites either.  It doesn’t help that sprites do fight amongst themselves, usually for stupid reasons.  Sprites are also looked down for irresponsible attitudes to breeding.  Where land has been made barren and they breed like rabbits on Earth, there are many who can foresee a war coming simply due to this.

Eileen's personal history...
Eileen’s personal history is dramatic too.  As well as her defection to Earth to marry Derek, her early life was no less eventful.  She lost her mother, Marina, when she was still a babe and Eileen has since found out that it was foul play.  Her mother also had a habit of putting her regal nose in where it wasn’t wanted and was silenced permanently.  Eileen has partially become a loudmouth to try to make sure the same fate didn’t happen to her.  She also gave lots of information to the Fairy News Network to make sure even if something didn’t happen to her the broadcasters had the relevant story.

Taking the blame...
None of the major magical groups come out with much credit when it comes to the realm’s past.  One region out of the Kingdom’s seven is almost all completely wasted, thanks to magical battles blasting the land to pieces.  Regrettably the land is far too damaged to recover and this was a major reason that led to Fresdian (later Rose) to take up her role as promoter of flora and fauna and to try to urge her fellow fairies at least to care for the landscape and environment.  Over time she did achieve some success here but to begin with she was considered nuts for being out in all weathers harping on about wildlife all the time.  It took her over a century to show she was consistent, her arguments were valid and for the realm to start taking any notice.

Campaigning to put things right...
Fresdian had petitioned the Queen on a regular basis to do whatever she could to restore the barren land.  Everyone knows the fairy royals have additional powers and Fresdian took the view the monarch could and should use these to help rectify the failings of the past.  The Queen always politely fobbed Fresidan off not that the old fairy godmother was fooled.  It is known the fairy royals are reluctant to reveal what their extra powers are and prefer to save this for extreme situations.  Fresdian of course sees correcting the damage as an extremity that should be tackled.  The Queen sees extremity as threats facing the Kingdom as a whole and barren land doesn’t come into that category.

Eileen's "revisionist" history....
Eileen has written her version of Fairy Kingdom history.  Only a few leather bound copies were produced and these are all kept in the Palace Library.  The only reason they’ve not been destroyed is Eileen would create merry hell if they were.  People are allowed to read Eileen’s works though they have to state who they are when asking for the books.  This puts people off.  Eileen herself wants this practice stopped pointing out with monotonous regularity (Queen’s viewpoint) the bullying nature of this.  The Queen has done what she usually does with anything she dislikes - ignore it!

Official Kingdom history....
The official version of Kingdom history is that the Chief Witch’s family were responsible for all the warmongering and damage done to lives, land and property throughout the centuries.  The Witch’s family always argued they were treated shabbily by the royals, especially by Gwendolyn, and had to defend themselves against fairy royal aggression.  Naturally there are faults on both sides but what shocked many, including the current Queen, is that Eileen had a great deal of sympathy with the Witch, acknowledged the royals had their faults and that at least some of the violence of the past could and should have been avoided.  Eileen is very much the renegade here and Brankaresh tried to use her sympathy for the Witch against her, to no avail much to his frustration.

Early Kingdom history....
Early Kingdom history was easier to follow.  Someone started a war, usually a witch with ambition, and the fairy royals heroically stopped it.  There is also a lot of snobbery between witches and fairies - both despise the other, both don’t like backing down or admitting they’ve got it wrong.  All the right ingredients for war on a regular basis.  Eileen despises this and blames both sides equally.  The Queen feels Eileen is far too critical of the royal side and not critical enough of the witches’ side.  Eileen is not surprised.  She sees it as her role to criticize the fairy monarchy when it needs it and she will not be silenced.