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

These 30 true stories of princesses from around the world offer a different kind of bedtime story. Pop history meets a funny, feminist point-of-view in these illustrated tales. You think you know her story. You might’ve read the Brothers Grimm and watched Disney cartoons, cheering as these virtuous women lived happily ever after. But real princesses didn’t always get happy endings and had little in common with Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, or Ariel.

Princesses Behaving Badly features illustrations by Wicked cover artist Douglas Smith and tells the true stories of famous (Marie Antoinette; Lucrezia Borgia) and not-so-famous.Some were villains, some were heroes, and some were just plain crazy. But none of these princesses felt constrained to our notions of “lady-like” behavior.

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