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Like the catchy tune in their live action remake of Snow White, Disney clearly has some "princess problems" with their classic fairy tale source material. The 2025 retelling suffers from the ...
When an exotic foreign princess showed up in an English village, it marked the beginning of one of history's wildest hoaxes.
The story, also known as "How to Tell a True Princess," tells of a girl being tested by a queen to see if she is a true princess worthy of marrying her son. The queen places a pea under a large number ...
Curated by University of Colorado Boulder students under the direction of Sean Babbs (Instruction Coordinator for the Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collections) and Suzanne Magnanini (Associate ...
Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it tells the story of a princess whose wicked step mother is intimidated by her youthful beauty. Desperate to be the “fairest of them ...
But actually a fairy story doesn’t have to have fairies in it at all! They could be about a princess - or a prince for example. Fairy stories always start with the words 'Once upon a time'.