King Chance Charming is the well-known fairy tale character also named "Prince Charming" from the fairy tale Cinderella, who meets his future wife at a royal ball but loses her as she flees at midnight, leaving behind a glass slipper. He finds her again by making all young women in the kingdom try on the glass slipper. At the start of The Wishing Spell, King Chance Charming and Queen Cinderella are married, and Cinderella is pregnant.