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

ISBN: 1594746443

ISBN13: 9781594746444

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

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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 Antoinette; Lucrezia Borgia)--and some not-so-famous--princesses throughout history and around the world, including: - Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a Nazi spy. - Empress Elisabeth of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who slept wearing a mask of raw veal. - Princess Olga of Kiev, who slaughtered her way to sainthood. - Princess Lakshmibai, who waged war on the battlefield with her toddler strapped to her back. Some were villains, some were heroes, some were just plain crazy. But none of these princesses felt constrained to our notions of "lady-like" behavior. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
Better Than Any Disney or Grimm Tale

I actually found this book at Half Price Books, but already had my "limit" so put it on my wishlist and listened to the audiobook on Libby. It was a fun change up! And man, women are amazing. The amount of control that society and men have tried to force on women is insane, and yet they keep on. It's also interesting to see how often women's legacy has literally be chiseled off the face of the earth 😳 There were so many histories...

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