#miphlink

essentially Link's mysterious past and time-related powers can be credited to being a bastard child of the Queen, and upon being discovered after the Queen's passing, the King had him instantly shuttled to Zora's Domain with a handful of knights to keep the boy out of his sight. Thus why a majority of Link's childhood as a knight can be credited in the Domain, until he was a little too good at being a knight, at which point Rhoam could no longer ignore the little problem on his hands and started putting him on increasingly dangerous missions.

Link, however, would rise to the occasion, and succeed in his impossible tasks every time, only serving to infuriate a King who already thinks his daughter is worthless, causing him to compare Zelda and her bastard half-brother constantly, not that she would ever know it. All Zelda knows is her father is never satisfied with her progress.

Mipha discovers this, and is sort of seething that the King would 1. treat a child so callously as to force him to remain in the army in the hopes it would get him killed and 2. deprive Zelda of growing up with a sibling just so the King could continue to put pressure on her and isolate her, whilst retaining his rule after his wife's death. It causes the King immense distress to have his power questioned, which it is, regularly - after all, he married INTO the hylian royal family. He doesn't have a drop of Zonai in him.