The book starts with a very interesting introduction that briefly discusses the growing “princess culture” and some of the concerns with that. One of the first things I really enjoyed about this book was the clear layout that McRobbie chose. Growing up with a history teacher for a father, I learned to love quirky history stories, so I was excited to begin this book.
I enjoyed it enough that I decided to see if I could find a copy of the book to read more stories. Someone had taken a section about one of the many interesting princesses and shared it for others to read. The first time I ran across Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History without the Fairy-Tale Endings, was actually on a really neat Tumblr post. Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie Some real princesses were women who found themselves in circumstances they couldn’t control.” 19 November 2013 “ Perhaps the best way to make sure that the fairy tale doesn’t become the expectation is to talk about real princesses and to stop turning their lives into fairy tales.
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