Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie

From Nazi spy to bloodthirsty killer, these women were not meek in any way. 'Forget conventional fairy-tale endings.From pirate princesses to princesses with bizarre beauty routines to warrior royalty, this book shows there's a lot more to life than a cookie-cutter story.'- Bustle 'History has produced some very real, very dangerous ladies who make their movie and book counterparts seem lame by comparison. But none of these princesses felt constrained to our notions of 'lady-like' behavior. Some were villains, some were heroes, some were just plain crazy. * Princess Lakshmibai, who waged war on the battlefield with her toddler strapped to her back. * Princess Olga of Kiev, who slaughtered her way to sainthood. * Empress Elisabeth of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who slept wearing a mask of raw veal.

Featuring illustrations by Wicked cover artist, Douglas Smith, Princesses Behaving Badly tells the true stories of famous (Marie Antoinette Lucrezia Borgia)-and some not-so-famous-princesses throughout history and around the world, including: * Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a Nazi spy. But real princesses didn't always get happy endings-and had very little in common with Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, or Ariel. You've read the Brothers Grimm, you've watched the Disney cartoons, and you cheered as these virtuous women lived happily ever after. Pop history meets a funny, feminist point-of-view in these illustrated tales of 'royal terrors who make modern gossip queens seem as demure as Snow White' ( New York Post ). These 30 true stories of take-charge princesses from around the world and throughout history offer a different kind of bedtime story.

Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie