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TIFU by making a room of children cry and sending my niece into mourning.

My niece, who just turned 5 on Saturday, loves Rapunzel. Her mom asked me to help her set up a Tangled themed birthday, Since I really adore my niece, we really went all out to make it the best party ever. We had purple streamers, a tangled sheet cake, and had the cardboard cut out of a tower on the wall. For the cherry on top, my niece really wanted Rapunzel herself to come over. All right, no problem.

One of my friends has a pet gecko lizard thing who is pretty social, and she likes to dress up as a princess for tiktok so I asked her if she would like to be our Rapunzel for the day. I figured my niece wouldn't know the difference between her crocodilian creature and the chameleon-iguana whatever in the movie. She accepts and everything seems fine.

Day of the party arrives, and the kids are shaking in anticipation to meet Rapunzel. My friend is set to arrive any moment now but I get a call from her, telling me she can't make it because of an emergency and is now at the hospital. I get ready to face the room of excited kindergarteners.

My niece comes up to me and asks when Rapunzel is arriving. I kneel down to her and say " Sweetie, Rapunzel can't come in today" My niece looks heartbroken and starts to cry and asks if Rapunzel didn't want to see her. I was like " Oh no, no she couldn't wait to see you! Rapunzel had an emergency and had to go to the hospital" I thought this would calm her down but she started crying harder. She asks "Why is she in the hospital?" and without thinking I say the first thing that pops into my head. " She got into a car crash on the way here" My niece asks if she could come after she's back from the hospital, and I say no. Then, she asks if we can visit her in the hospital and I say no. Then she asks "Why?" about 50 times until I hold her shoulder, look her dead in they eye, and say " Sweetie, Rapunzel died" My niece has now stopped asking questions and has gone back to just crying. I admire my own stroke of genius and quick thinking to avert the crisis.

After letting her mother know of the situation, I come out of the kitchen to let the kids know that Rapunzel wouldn't be coming, only to find most of the kids already sobbing and bawling on the floor. One little boy asks me if my niece is lying or if Rapunzel really is dead. I blink my eyes really fast like I'm holding back tears and say in my best choked-up voice that its true, Rapunzel really is dead. Niece's mom glares at me so hard and gives me a "wtf did you do?" face. I figure the rest of the party will go on as normal, but despite my sister and laws attempts to fix my fuck up, it dragged on like a funeral service. The kids cut the Rapunzel cake and played on the Rapunzel swing and somberly played the Rapunzel games. Some of the kids were still crying as their parents picked them up. (My SIL tried to tell everyone that I was lying, but most of the kids didn't believe her)

My thought process was that if I came up with a good enough, unquestionable excuse for why Rapunzel couldn't come, the kids would be able to get over not having the princess there and be able to enjoy the party. Looking back, telling her that her favorite princess was dead probably wasn't the best move. My SIL is mad at me now for ruining my niece's 5th birthday party. Last I heard, she moved all her Rapunzel toys, blankets, dolls, and plushies to the garage and she's still crying a lot

TLDR: After the fake Rapunzel wasn't able to make it to my niece's fifth birthday party, I told my niece that she had died in a car crash. The word got around, everyone started crying and the entire birthday party was ruined

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