enough said?
Well, maybe not.
It seems that fairy tale princes are believed to be highly moral, marrying Cinderella and Snow White even though there are no kings in the picture demanding that the marriages take place. Or, at least that's the way it appears to happen in the movies.
John Moore, a truly engaging writer of young adult fiction, however, presents a somewhat different view of princes and their various moralities. Realizing, perhaps, that as a fairly diverse grouping of people, the handsome princes might not all have exa
ctly the same views on dating, marriage, and ethics, Moore shows princes negotiating some of these boundaries while saving distressed damsels, fighting dragons, and/or getting into general princely mischief according to their several personalities.
Having recourse to Wikipedia (OK, I must stop depending on this as a source for all my informational needs...but it's SO handy!), I find that "prince" means any number of things and can refer to the ruler of a principality (think Monaco), the up-and-coming ruler of a country with a king or queen, and of course, the Half-Blood Prince of Harry Potter fame, Severus Snape, who is, thankfully, not mentioned in the Wikipedia "prince" entry, which is at least somewhat reassuring.
Well, maybe not.
It seems that fairy tale princes are believed to be highly moral, marrying Cinderella and Snow White even though there are no kings in the picture demanding that the marriages take place. Or, at least that's the way it appears to happen in the movies.
John Moore, a truly engaging writer of young adult fiction, however, presents a somewhat different view of princes and their various moralities. Realizing, perhaps, that as a fairly diverse grouping of people, the handsome princes might not all have exa
ctly the same views on dating, marriage, and ethics, Moore shows princes negotiating some of these boundaries while saving distressed damsels, fighting dragons, and/or getting into general princely mischief according to their several personalities.Having recourse to Wikipedia (OK, I must stop depending on this as a source for all my informational needs...but it's SO handy!), I find that "prince" means any number of things and can refer to the ruler of a principality (think Monaco), the up-and-coming ruler of a country with a king or queen, and of course, the Half-Blood Prince of Harry Potter fame, Severus Snape, who is, thankfully, not mentioned in the Wikipedia "prince" entry, which is at least somewhat reassuring.
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