Princesses Behaving Badly Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

eBook - 2013

These 30 true stories of take-charge princesses from around the world and throughout history offer a different kind of bedtime story . . .Pop history meets a funny, feminist point-of-view in these illustrated tales of “royal terrors who make modern gossip queens seem as demure as Snow White” (New York Post).You think you know her story. You’ve read the Brothers Grimm, you’ve watched the Disney cartoons, and you cheered as these virtuous women lived happily ever after. But real princesses didn’t always get happy endings—and had very little in common with Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, or Ariel. Featuring illustrations by Wicked cover artist, Douglas Smith, Princesses Behaving Badly tells the true stories of famous (Marie Ant...oinette; Lucrezia Borgia)—and some not-so-famous—princesses throughout history and around the world, including: • Princess... more