Through interviews with Grace Kelly's family and friends, the author penetrates the storybook veneer around Kelly's life to reveal a surprisingly complex, conflicted woman.

Recounts the fairy tale about a beautiful princess who falls into a deep, long sleep after pricking her finger on a spindle. Recounts the fairy tale about a beautiful princess who falls into a deep, long sleep after pricking her finger on a spindle

With her feet bare (those glass slippers don't fit) and her secondhand gown splattered with mud (thanks, evil stepsisters), Ella's first day of Princess School is off to a lousy start. If she can only find her fairy godmother before the first class begins, Ella is sure she'll put things right. But her fairy godmother is off at a convention and Ella is on her own, so she'll have to get through the first weeks of Princess School without any bobbity-boo....

When her baseball mitt magically grants her wish to be a princess, Kate learns the job has its drawbacks.

A fussy princess learns the hard way that it isn't always important that everything be just right.

Tells the story of the Prince's childhood and upbringing, his adolescence and adulthood, analysing the public role and illuminating the private man. Reveals his attitudes and beliefs as well as his feelings about himself and his family. Also examines the relationship between the heir to the throne and government ministers, the armed services, and the Church.

A sixteen-year-old in Kansas, who discovers she is really a princess, is taken to a tiny European monarchy to assume her duties and marry a distasteful neighboring prince, and in the ensuing weeks tries to become such a "royal pain" that everyone will want to be rid of her.

In order to marry the beautiful princess that he loves, a Persian prince must outwit an evil magician and use the magic horse to his advantage.

Describes the childhood, wedding, and work of Lady Diana, who married Prince Charles of England and became Princess of Wales.