I really hope they just stay as best friends. Please don't made them date each other

I ship her with the knight..I want the prince(now king) to be in good terms with her like brother and sister relationship

Yeah. Brother and sister relationship is better than couple relationship

Since he has arranged marriage candidates (shown in chapter 4), he will probably marry Ashley to strengthen the royal family. And she was shown earlier on, maybe the author was establishing something for the reader...but I could be wrong
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Totally forgot about that lol you might be right on the dot on that one

agreed, she seems very much like an older sister/mom figure to him. she just wants him to smile TT_TT