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    Perfect Princess
    Perfect Princess
    Perfect Princess
    Ebook161 pages58 minutes

    Perfect Princess

    By Meg Cabot and Chesley McLaren

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    Sleeping Beauty,
    Victoria,
    Cleopatra,
    Snow White,
    Elizabeth,
    Pocahontas,
    Mia Thermopolis:
    all princesses

    Do YOU have what it takes
    to be a princess?
    princess mia will help you find out


    Best-selling Princess Diaries author Meg Cabot and acclaimed fashion artist Chesley McLaren team up again to display this clever royal roster of princesses of the world. Big or small, old or new, fact or fiction, our favorite princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo (aka Mia) will point out why these princesses rule, and how any girl can too!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061971952
    Perfect Princess
    Author

    Meg Cabot

    MEG CABOT’s many books for both adults and teens have included numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers, with more than twenty-five million copies sold worldwide. Her Princess Diaries series was made into two hit films by Disney, with a third movie coming soon. Meg currently lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband and various cats.

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    • 4/5
      This was an interesting read, if you want to know more about princesses, including fictional ones. It was not integral to the series however. Though it did have snippets written from each character like the Princess Lessons book did, I found this one to be a little less about the characters and more about the history of the princesses. That being said, I did really enjoy it, especially learning more about princesses I did not know of. Michael's contributions were very interesting to me as well. If you're a fan of the series or enjoy the history of princesses you would enjoy this book.

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    Perfect Princess - Meg Cabot

    INTRODUCTION

    by Her Royal Highness Princess Mia Thermopolis

    Imagine it: One day you’re just this normal ninth grader with too-big feet and too-small breasts, whose biggest concern is passing Algebra and/or whether or not your best friend’s hottie brother knows you’re alive. The next thing you know, you’re a princess. Suddenly, everybody around you is talking tiaras and tariffs. But you’re still all, What’s on the WB tonight?

    Like adolescence isn’t bad enough, with the zits and the bad hair days and the nobody-understands-me thing. Try taking all that and throwing a big ermine cape over it (except not, because wearing fur is wrong unless you are, like, an

    Eskimo and really need mink to stay alive in the subarctic temperatures or whatever).

    Fortunately my grandmother—formally known as the Dowager Princess Clarisse Renaldo, or, as I simply call her, Grandmère—stepped in with the whole princess lessons idea. True, my chance of ever taking part in after-school extracurriculars is totally shot, on account of how I have to go to Grandmère’s every afternoon to learn how to pour tea and say, I don’t prefer any more finger sandwiches, thank you, in seven different languages.

    But while I’m still not exactly sure about the whole posture thing and how much of a tip to leave the hotel manicurist in Beijing, one thing I have got down is the fact that I am not the world’s first—or even its last—princess.

    And just knowing that I’m not alone—that there are people who have endured exactly what I’m going through— is, like, such a major comfort, I can’t even tell you. Read on to find out about other princesses—past, present, and pretend—who have made major impacts on society, and what we, as princesses in training, can learn from their triumphs and mistakes.

    I.

    A Note from

    Her Royal Highness Princess Mia

    Grandmère says the only way we as a society can learn from our mistakes is carefully to scrutinize them, and vow never to repeat them. I guess this would explain why I’m stuck in princess lessons with her every single weekday from four to six.

    Not surprisingly, Grandmère thinks SHE’s the most suitable person to consult about royal role models. She says in her day, young women did not look up to scantily clad, weapon-wielding princesses such as Xena and that other one, the one with the robots and the buns on the sides of her head (!!!!!!) but to royals such as Princess Margaret and Isabel of Spain.

    And though Grandmère says that there are any number of highly memorable princesses she would recommend that I emulate, she always adds, Though I feel I can say—without flattering myself, which would be highly unprincesslike— that I’m probably your most suitable role model.

    Whatever! I suppose it is setting a good example to smoke a pack a day and swill down about a zillion Sidecars before breakfast.

    On the other hand, it’s true you hardly ever read about Grandmère in the National Enquirer. She is the epitome of discretion. At least, outside the confines of the palace. Inside, all bets are off.

    ELIZABETH,

    THE LATE QUEEN MOTHER

    by Grandmère, Dowager Princess of Genovia, grandmother to Mia Thermopolis

    [with commentary by Princess Mia]

    The late queen mother of Great Britain—often vulgarly referred to as the Queen Mum—is a perfect example of a princess who comported herself with grace and dignity throughout her long life. The mother of the longest-ruling sovereign in British history, one of Queen Bess’s most notable contributions to the throne was her insistence that her family stay together during World War II. Rather than shipping her two young daughters, the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, to safety in the countryside, as many London parents were doing, the queen kept the girls at her side in the palace… a palace that was frequently strafed by Luftwaffe gunfire and even, on several occasions, bombed by the Nazi horde.

    Her Majesty refused to be daunted by this senseless onslaught, and bravely visited her less fortunate subjects, commoners whose own homes had been blown to smithereens, in the very craters in which their beds once stood, offering tips as to how the damage might be repaired while never getting so much as a smudge on her crisp cotton gloves. Indomitable and cheerful throughout her husband’s reign, the queen mother is a perfect example of a regent who showed grace under pressure… and always while wearing a delightful confection of a chapeau.

    [Um. Okay. The part about not fearing the Nazis is cool.]

    Grandmère’s Random Act of Princess:

    Be like the queen mother: Brighten the day of someone less fortunate than yourself by going to visit him or her while wearing a pair of white gloves and a charming hat with an adorable matching clutch. The poor soul will be cheered by the effort you will have made to look your best.

    ENGLAND’S PRINCESSES

    ELIZABETH AND MARGARET

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