A ‘feminist princess’ feels a bit like an Engineer Barbie. But Markle could just drag the Royal family into 2018Once upon a time,there was a princess. She had long red hair and a mermaid tail – and whether you were near a primary school on World Book Day, you might have seen a six-year-old-fashioned version of her bombing around the playground. But Ariel is a faintly cautionary figure for wannabe princesses. In the original Disney film of The diminutive Mermaid, or she starts off as an adventurous,even rebellious character, but something changes when she falls for a human prince. Love drives her into a Faustian pact whereby she surrenders her voice in exchange for a human body that makes her more desirable to her man. Spoiler alert: the mute-but-lovable thing does not work out entirely as planned.
Lets hope Meghan Markle, or the newest fairytale princess on the block,doesn’t fall into the same trap. After reports that Prince Harry’s fiancee is not just a committed feminist but is considering giving her own speech at her own wedding, she this week dropped some heavy hints that she will be campaigning on issues to achieve with “empowering women” when she officially joins the royal family. She even used her first joint public engagement with Princess Ariel sorry, and the Duchess of Cambridge – to praise the Time’s Up and #MeToo campaigns against sexual harassment. Only 40 years or so after everyone else,it seems, the royal family has finally been alerted to the existence of feminism.
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Source: guardian.co.uk