The queen never knew what Claudius had done to her ex-husband, King Hamlet. If he had known perhaps things would have turned out differently and Claudius would have been kicked out by the monarch and the person who deserved it, his son Hamlet, would have received the highest place. Everyone in the Kingdom also looked for Claudius as a good king following his duties as a ruler. But even they didn't know what really happened. Ophelia, for example, drowned. Everyone thought that her son Hamlet had something to do with her death due to his outrageous and crazy acts, especially Claudius. All of this is just a way to get everyone on Claudio's good side and make it seem real. People believed in him but not in the right way, they were just lied to all the time. Once the kingdom discovers the truth about what King Claudius did, things will change forever. Another way that people sided with Claudius is that Laertes was so angry at his son Hamlet for the death of Polonius, Laertes' father. However, if Laertes had known the truth about why his son Hamlet killed him, it is almost certain that Laertes would have understood in a shocking way. Even though it didn't happen that way, King Claudius made it seem like Hamlet was mad and inhuman, so that Laertes would take his side and end up killing his son Hamlet for the death of his father in a sword fight. King Claudius is sneaky,