Not only is Courtney Thorpe the Head of
the Styling Department at the Australian
Institute of Creative Design, she is also
the fashion editor at GC Magazine. If
that wasn’t enough, she just took out
the crown of Miss World Australia 2014
and wrote her first children’s book, The
Princess Boarding School. She has always
loved children and is an ambitious
woman who truly believes that, “with
enough determination, every dream has
the potential to become reality.”
Becoming a national finalist in Miss
World Australia, has given Courtney the
perfect opportunity to fulfil her dream
of writing a children’s book. Along with
her fellow Miss World 2014 participants,
she is tirelessly working towards raising
as much money as possible for Variety
the Children’s Charity, whose goal is
to empower sick or disadvantaged
Australian children to live, laugh and
learn.
The story is based around a young girl
called Lisa who always wanted to be a
Princess. Using her vivid imagination,
Lisa decides she needs to learn how to
be a perfect princess so she takes herself
to Princess Boarding School. She soon
realises that princesses can be all shapes
and sizes, with different interests and
backgrounds, and that all princesses are
perfect, just the way they are.