Loosely based on Machiavelli's book of a similar name, "The Princess" provides advice - with tongue firmly in cheek - to girls in the 10 - 16 year old age group that want to become a princess, or a celebrity - the happily ever after fantasy of the modern world. I wrote it - you know it's going to be sarcastic and funny!
"The Princess" tells girls how to get fame, riches, beauty and happiness and asks them to consider what they are really worth.
"The Princess" is available on Kindle and Kobo for $4.95. And remember, you don't need to have a Kindle or Kobo device to read their books - as always, there's an app for that.
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00LZRKOQC
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-princess-27
Here's an excerpt:
Kings get to tell
people what to do. The modern equivalent is called a “dictator”. If being a
brutal dictator and stealing large amounts of a country’s wealth for yourself
is what you’d like, go looking for an ambitious army officer and get him to
stage a coup d’état (military takeover of a country). You then get to be the
first lady with all the money and power.
Imelda Marcos of the Philippines actually finished up with 2,700 pairs
of shoes this way.
Beware! There is a
danger here! People who become dictators of countries and keep all the money
for themselves are often murdered, along with their families. What you want is
the hard working but poor people of your country cheering madly as you arrive
in your coach, accompanied by slightly annoying talking donkey. What you
definitely do not want is those same people taking the palace by force,
stabbing you brutally to death while you sleep and taking all the cash. That is
not part of the fairy tale vision of life as a princess!
In fact, it probably
was part of the original story. Hard working but poor people eventually ask
themselves why they do all the work and are still poor while you do nothing and
get all the shoes. They then count the small number of guards around your
palace, count how many poor people there are and realise that they can get rid
of you and be hard working, rich and comfortably shod. The French monarchy went
that way (beheaded) so did the Russian one (shot). In modern times the same
thing has befallen Libya and Iraq and is probably going to happen in Syria. You
just don’t get that part of the story in fairy tales, mostly because Disney and
Dreamworks can’t find a cute song to go with animations of mass murder.
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