Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie

But none of these princesses felt constrained to our notions of “lady-like” behavior. Some were villains, some were heroes, some were just plain crazy. Princess Lakshmibai, who waged war on the battlefield with her toddler strapped to her back. Princess Olga of Kiev, who slaughtered her way to sainthood. In her easy, breezy style, she covers all types of women, from warrior to schemers to women that were mentally unstable. Empress Elisabeth of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who slept wearing a mask of raw veal. McRobbie has written a comprehensive study of thirty royal females throughout history and given life to their back story. Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a Nazi spy. Princesses Behaving Badly Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings By: Linda Rodriguez McRobbie Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins 4.2 (236 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. But real princesses didn’t always get happy endings-and had very little in common with Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, or Ariel.įeaturing 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:

You’ve read the Brothers Grimm, you’ve watched the Disney cartoons, and you cheered as these virtuous women lived happily ever after. 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). These 30 true stories of take-charge princesses from around the world and throughout history offer a different kind of bedtime story.

Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie