Princesses Behaving Badly Author:Linda Rodriguez McRobbie Fairy tales may begin once upon a time, but they don't always end happily ever after. — If you even thought being a princess is all tea parties and tiaras -- think again. — Author Linda Rodriguez McRobbie strips away the princess myth to reveal the fascinating facts about female monarchs past and present -- all the guts, glitter, and gore you neve... more »r learned from Walt Disney or the Brothers Grimm.
* Princess Lakshmibai of India charged into battle with an infant on her back.
* Princess Isabella executed her husbands lovers -- and then her husband, the king of England.
* Princess Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a glass piano.
* Queen Njinga of Ndongo, in Africa, kept a male harem and thwarted colonizers for decades.
Meet these and dozens of other infamous, illustrious women -- soldiers, schemers, saints, and spies whose true stories are weirder and wilder than any little girl would dream of.« less