Allie Evans is an American hotel maid who was fired for not getting an important guest's room ready in time. Overhearing her firing, a hotel patrons servant, Fergus, hires her to be a governess for his employer's daughter in the country of Winshire. When Allie accepts and arrives in the country, she finds that Fergus' employer is King Maximillian and that his daughter is Princess Theodora who had become mischievous since her mother's death. As Allie works for Theodora, she befriends the other staff members as King Maximillian is arranged by Chancellor Riggs to be engaged to Countess Celia. Though Theodora has some objections to this as she thinks Allie would be a better match.