The "Prince Charming" Enigma

I've said it before in other places, but my daughter Hannah had a book "published" (I put it in quotations because her Aunt Ashlea sent her a "get published!" kit for Christmas, wherein she drew her own pictures & wrote her own story, sent it in, & it was printed in hardback, & sent back)... it's about fairies (specifically, a Fairy Queen who gets kidnapped by a gang of dragons, who merely wanted her deejaying services.  LOL)... but I digress.

One day recently, after I picked her up from school, she opened her book (which was in her backpack from book report day) & showed me that she'd stuck Disney Princess stickers on the inside & wrote "princesses with their princeses." I started giggling at her misspelling of "princes," but it spurred a conversation about the different princesses & their men.  She said, "Here's Jasmine with Aladdin, Ariel with Eric, Aurora with Phillip, Snow White with Prince Charming, & Cinderella with... OMG.  PRINCE CHARMING!" 

We giggled & began chattering like little hens about the scandal of it all, wondering why on Earth Prince Charming would double-time the poor princesses... & then, it began...

I Googled (or more specifically Wiki-ied) "Prince Charming" to see just how many fairy tales &/or stories he appears in, & since he's quite generic, he appears in several, including but not limited to Cinderella,Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Shrek movies, etc.  Since she's mostly just familiar with those first three (with the exception of Shrek, but we all know what a jerk THAT Charming is), we started compiling a "what-if" scenario... 

Here's what we determined.  Prince Charming isn't 1 prince, but 3 separate princes.  They're brothers, of course, but their parents gave them horrendously embarrassing first names (e.g. Eggbert, Percival, Myron, Virgil, Otis, Horace, Rufus, Rupert, etc.).  While the princes were exceedingly handsome &, for the lack of a better term, CHARMING, the local girls were awfully giggly about their given names & the boys decide to leave home in search of love, each going in a separate direction as individual "Prince Charmings."

Charming # 1 meets Cinderella at a local dance... Charming # 2 meets Snow White in the dwarves' woods... Charming # 3 meets Aurora near her sleeping chamber or whatever... little do the princes know, they've circled around & wound up in very close proximity to one another... and the girls, who don't know each other but, say, have the same hairdresser (LOL--Hannah's suggestion), start gushing about their love interests... and go bat-crazy when they discover they are ALL dating "Prince Charming." The girls decide to set "Prince Charming" up for failure, only to discover through hilarity & hijinks that the joke's on them.  We might even complicate matters by making the princes identical triplets... :)

We had the BEST time coming up with the plot, & Hannah said, "Mommy, we've GOT to write that!!!" SO... I think we will!!!!  :D

But if any of you freaks steal our ideas before we get a chance to get that down on paper, a plague on your house... ;)

Copyright (C) 2011, Kassie Bennett.  Ha.  One can't be too careful. ;)

'Til next time, friends!