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At least, until the day of her christening, when a grumpy fairy placed a spell to make her ORDINARY Princess Amethyst Alexandra Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne (also known as Princess Amy) doesnt mind being ordinary- she gets to play in the woods, and run about to her. The Ordinary Princess (A Puffin Book) - Kindle edition by Kaye, M M. A perfect day and a perfect place to write a fairy story. Once upon a time, there was the most beautiful, extraordinary princess. the day was warm and windless and without a cloud in the sky. They would all have been of chasing after some lissome Royal Highness with large blue eyes and yards of golden hair and probably nothing whatever between her ears! It was in that moment that a story about a princess who turned out to be ordinary jumped into my mind, and the very next morning I took my pencil box and a large rough-notebook down to the orchard and, having settled myself under an apple tree in full bloom, began to write. This struck me as most unfair, and suddenly I began to wonder just how many handsome young princes would have asked a king for the hand of his daughter if that daughter had happened to be gawky, snub-nosed, and freckled, with shortish mouse-colored hair? None, I suspected. All the princesses, apart from such rare exceptions as Snow White, were blond, blue-eyed, and beautiful, with lovely figures and complexions and extravagantly long hair.

I had read at least twenty of the when I noticed something that had never struck me before-I suppose because I had always taken it for granted. “This story was written many moons ago under an apple tree in an orchard in Kent, which is one of England's prettiest counties.

The ordinary princess by mm kaye