What is it pumpkin?

'What is it pumpkin?!', the king asked. He knew his spoiled but better half would complain about it all. But little did she know that their daughter already had someone special. He just had to wait a bit longer for his wife to get desperate enough to accept that it wasn't going to be a prince, but a stable servant. The poor lad and the princess had been in love for years now, and the king thought he was really nice. Plus he made his daughter happy, so who was he to interfere.