Moonrise 13Moon Digital Magazine Volume 1, Number 9 - October 13, 2015 | Page 16

pearls of wisdom
situational

There is no glass slipper...
Here’s a freebie for you – tip #1 – nothing
you do is going to morph a creature into
the mythical Prince or Princess Charming…
And yep, I checked. There is truly not an
app that’s really going to be of much help.
Believe it or not, we’ve all got something
in common, especially if you’ve been
previously married or had been in a
long-term relationship. We all fell for the
packaging – Prince Charming come to life
– it was easy to imagine then. Back then,
we didn’t have a fully developed moral
compass or experience to know otherwise,
not that we would have listened back
then.
Full of vim, vigor and hopelessly lost
behind the beer goggles of “love”, we
were besotted. We would have done
just about anything – preferably legal to
demonstrate our willingness to go to the
ends of the earth to prove Love.
By the time the mirror crack’d, it was too
late. In the blazing light of day, it’s easy
to see that the glass slipper was actually
four sizes too small and was only good as
a Tschotske on the shelf. Fun fact – did
you know that Christian Louboutin (he of
the red sole shoes) actually has a “Disney
Cinderella shoe”? This is true – 20 pairs
were produced and sold for an eyepopping $6,400 per pair!
The crown actually turned out to be
plastic child’s toy with paste stones
instead of real gems. Another fun fact –
Swarovski Crystal sells a $300 Cinderella
tiara for women who want to look and feel
like a princess at their wedding or other

special event. Do you see where this is
going?
And Prince/Princess Charming, turned out
to be a one-dimensional caricature. Yikes!
Poof – the dream completely gone up in
smoke!
Well, let me just tell you a story…
It started with the shy, well-heeled,
kindergarten teacher plucked from
relative obscurity (as far as peerage
goes) and thrust into the public eye as
every little girls’ fantasy come to life. It
was July 1981 when Lady Diana Frances
Spencer was famously escorted into St.
Paul’s Cathedral, to emerge later as Her
Royal Highness, Her Royal Highness The
Princess of Wales and Countess of Chester,
Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay.
At the time, we breathed a sigh of
relief as she and her prince went off on
honeymoon and their happy ever after,
which is where her story went off the
rails… The rest of us managed to squeeze
in a few extra winks and went back to our
day-to-day plain-Jane lifestyles. And now,
it’s still being played out in front of us as
Will and Kate have taken their parents’
place on the world stage.
Just so you know, even for a princess, the
struggle is real!
Fact is, even now, in the 21st Century,
the mouse house continues to exploit this
churning undercurrent while raking in
more than $3 billion worldwide through
its Princess line – even as the country is
barely creeping along after emerging from