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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid_Maleen

I wonder if the writers were inspired by this story. It's a story similar to Rapunzel where a princess wishes to marry a prince, but her father disapproves and locks her away in a tower. Years late she escapes, but discovers the prince is engaged to another woman. She then found work in the prince's kitchen. This sounds a lot like Lady Tremaine's backstory.