As I was writing a profile for Lena this morning, I was thinking about her situation was Rhys. She and Rhys were engaged, apparently by their parents without any input from the two of them, from a young age. But then Rhys finds Maia and decides to marry her. Lena doesn't seem to have a problem with it, but how do you think Rhys' parents would have felt about it? Their son has suddenly decided to cast off ties with the neighboring kingdom for this amnesiac girl from who-knows-where.
And then when Maia gets kidnapped, rather than supporting a search and rescue, the king throws Rhys in the dungeon. Aside from Rhys setting out on his own, there's no attempt to find Maia at all. Could it be that Rhys' parents didn't approve and were actually glad to see Maia gone?