User blog comment:Rose234/possible new female character in Merlin/@comment-4956800-20120730193430/@comment-5350801-20120730234637

What you state about the Lay-in-Waiting may be true (I only trust wikipedia to a certain extent) but remember this is Merlin.

If the show was going to keep with the real medieval period, Merlin would have certainly been put in the dungeons, or worse, by now, for talking to Prince Arthur the way he does in the first four seasons (or series depending on where you're from).