Story mother noted down about a king and queen (9)
I believe the answer is:
narrative
'story' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'mother noted down about a king and queen' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'mother' could be 'rat' (synonyms) and 'rat' is present in the answer.
'about' could be 'a' (abbreviation in Chambers) and 'a' is found within the answer.
'king' could be 'r' (abbreviation for rex, king in Latin) and 'r' is found within the answer.
'and' could be 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and') and 'n' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'ive' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for narrative that I've seen before include "Account describing events" , "Report" , "Telling a story" , "Spoken account; story" , "Chronicle" .)