Princesses
'A One-Woman Crusade for Independence': My Memories of Princess Diana
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of Lady Diana's tragic death, her personal secretary recounts her triumphant Paris tour of 1992.
Inside the Boutique that Transforms Girls into Princesses
Ten years after the opening of Disney's first Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique, we take a look inside the salon known for transforming kids ages three to 12 into young royalty.
There Are a Lot of Better Names for a Princess Than 'Charlotte Elizabeth Diana'
The royal family named their new princess after the queen, the late Princess Diana, and the most boring "Sex and the City" character.
The Zozobra Festival Is a Neo-Pagan Ode to Spanish Colonialism
At a park in New Mexico’s capital city of Santa Fe, tens of thousands of people gather every year to watch the burning of what might be the world’s largest marionette. The creature is known as Zozobra, or “Old Man Gloom.”
Saudi Princesses Claim King Is Confining and Drugging Them
A former wife of King Abdullah says her four daughters have been captive for 13 years and are being “forced to take poisonous substances.”
I Auditioned to Be a Disney Princess
When we arrived, I immediately noticed that every Disney employee resembled a first draft of a cartoon character, the ones the artists sketch and then instantly crumple and toss away. Every person who had authority at the audition looked like that and...
