Now let’s see, said an Alice happily, let’s <br />make a list of wonderful things from the <br />book Ordinary Princess: Firstly, important <br />titles like “The Lord High Inviter of Wood <br />Fairies”, and “The Right Honourable Minister <br />with Portfolio for Inviting Water Nymphs”; <br />at this, Alice clapped her hands with glee <br /> <br />A fairy gave the Seventh Princess a gift to bring <br />her more happiness than possessing beauty; she’d <br />be ordinary - courageous, cheerful, charming and <br />witty, yet nobody noticed because she wasn’t a <br />beauty… sometimes her beautiful sisters became <br />an object of envy, but she knew what fun <br />they missed by not being her <br /> <br />They cared for their complexions, while she roamed <br />the forest, climbing trees and swimming effortlessly, <br />her sisters married boring princes; Royal Highnesses <br />and Serene Transparencies left in shock on finding <br />the Seventh Princess so very ordinary, the Duke of <br />Rubarbary left immediately to visit Baron Boris <br />Von Bigwigsburg – <br /> <br />An Alice laughing merrily about these foppish <br />characters, forming an ideal to be ordinary <br />herself… <br /> <br />Quoted from M.M. Kaye “The Ordinary Princess” 1980<br /><br />Margaret Alice<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fantasy-baron-boris-von-bigwigsburg/
