Princess

Didn't Father-Knows-Best call one of his daughters 'Princess'?

And the younger one, 'Kitten'?

Back when television was black-and-white and we almost convinced ourselves that life could really be like that?

»Your Paris gown is beautiful!«
»Yes, Percy, velvet panels are coming back again. Madame La Farge told me today that Queen Marie herself designed it.«
»Gee...!«
»Every princess in the Balkans is wearing one like this.« (Poses grandly.)

I know a princess, she reigns high in her eminent future. Screaming truths and sorrows from a tall barred window. But the tower reaches higher from the ground than it does down from the sky so only bit's and pieces can be heard. And by the time it reaches another soul, the only thought which is communicated is that there is beauty somewhere.
But that's the way she wants it, she even suggested the double-glass bay-window on the back. And we all wonder why she doesn't just slide down the pole and give us a hug.

»Maddie, my daughter. She's 5, and she's convinced that when she's grown up she's going to be a princess. She originally planned to be a queen, but then she learned she had to marry a king.«

-Neil Gaiman, as quoted in WIRED Magazine

A minute's silence was observed for Princess Diana
(and didn't she have a lovely slim figure all the same
just before she died) at the start of yesterday's show of Ron
Jocca's new spring/summer collection, writes Roberta
Perm. Cotton is out, linen is a no-no and plastic is definitely
going to be the in thing this year – Ron's »binbag« daywear
simply wowwed the in crowd in Powerscourt Town Centre.