User blog comment:MiraculousFanGirlayy/Why Audrey wants to be queen/@comment-18086040-20191213013509

Audrey is insecure. She tried to find an explanation to why Ben left her, and she found comfort in believing it was Mal's fault. In an alternative scenario, let's say that Mal never arrived to Auradon and Ben was stuck with Audrey, they would most likely end up married. Audrey becomes Queen, but there's no guarantee that she'd be happy, since the crown is simply an object and Queen is just a title. She was raised to believe that her ultimate goal is to marry the King and bear him kids, a common perception of women in royalty and aristocracy. Audrey didn't have a personal goal other than the need to become Queen. When Mal came, what she was destined to be suddenly became unavailable. She realized that marriage was no longer an option to get what she wants, so instead, she sought her own path. She may have had some questionable method and a very absurd approach, but nobody cheers at the fact that she decided to be independent and go get that crown herself.