The Really-Truly Princess Test
Written & Illustrated by Amanda Kastner
Copyright 2012 Amanda Kastner
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Rosellen is exactly your age, if you happen to be half-past-seven years old or maybe just-turned-eight. She looks very much like you do, too, if you are not especially big and not especially little, but just the right in-between size, with nice eyes and a nice smile and medium-colored hair. She lives with her father and mother in a castle.
Naturally, this means that her father and mother are the King and Queen, so Rosellen is a Princess and Rosellen’s older brothers—there are two of them, named Frederick and Alfred—are princes. There is also a baby Princess, but she is still in long gowns and caps.
Many people live in the castle with them because Rosellen’s mother cannot possibly do all of the sweeping-up by herself, especially since the two Princes are most extraordinarily careless about using the boot-scrapers and doormats when they come in from the back garden or the horse yard. The King invites many important guests to stay the weekend, and the amount of cooking and dish-washing and bed-making that must be done for so many people—! Of course the Queen needs help.
Rosellen's father and mother always wear their crowns so people knew they ought to be called Your Highness. They have large, heavy crowns for State Occasions and for everyday they have practical, lightweight crowns that won't slip sideways if you nod or hurt your toes if you drop the crown on them accidentally. Rosellen is only allowed to wear her crown on State Occasions.
“I wonder,” Rosellen said to herself one day, “if that means I'm only a Princess on State Occasions.” She wished she knew how to tell when she was a Princess and when she was not a Princess; wearing a crown never made her feel any different except that her head would ache when she took the crown off.
“But somehow,” Rosellen said, “having head-aches does not seem like a very good way to tell if you are a Really-Truly Princess.” Rosellen decided to ask Nurse about it.