If you spend enough time with any four-year-old girl, chances are you’ll witness her engaging in princess play. Princesses have been part of children’s imaginations for years, and research shows that princess-themed pretend play helps them to connect with peers during sociodramatic activities. What keeps girls and women coming back to princesses goes far beyond beautiful ball gowns and perfect princes; it’s the reminder that within each of us exists something royal.
Although in some cases, like Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (HRH), a princess and a duchess may move within the same social circles, they are not considered equal in rank. Princesses are members of the nobility, while duchesses are wives of kings or princes. If a princess becomes a duchess, her title changes to HRH.
Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is a living example of the old saying that truth is stranger than fiction. Alice, born with congenital deafness and a diagnosis of schizophrenia, spent much of her life doing charitable work, including volunteering at soup kitchens. She also founded her own religious order of nuns. During World War II, she sheltered a Jewish family from the Nazis, hiding them in her home and using her deafness to avoid questioning by the Gestapo. Yad Vashem named her Righteous Among the Nations in 1993, and Prince Philip traveled to Israel to honor her.
A princess is someone who is smart and brave, kind and caring. She is a role model for young people and she shows us that there are no boundaries to our potential.
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