2669. On becoming a princess

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I have always been a bit cynical about these Commoners who marry a Prince and become a Princess? I’m sure there’s a great deal of ambition and lust for prestige hidden in there somehow. They marry a Prince and before you can blink they have at the very least become a Duchess.

I had no idea it would happen to me.

I was at university pursuing a degree in Etruscan Pottery. There was a bachelor Prince in the class chasing after the same advanced degree. He was handsome! Handsome, rich, titled, and available! What more could a common girl such as me want? Of course all the other females in the class went gar-gar. It was sickening to see grown women flouncing about trying to get noticed by someone with a title.

Then something strange began to happen. One by one these women were dying. It was poisoning apparently. There were seven deaths over the course of the academic year. It started around the time the Prince started dating me.

I had asked the Prince when he gets married what title would his wife get, and he said she would become a Countess or maybe a Duchess. But if his older brother died – who was the heir to the throne – then he (my Prince) would become the heir and I would become a Princess.

 Would you believe? Having married the Prince, here I am a Countess already. Good things take time. I’m quietly working on becoming a Princess.

24 thoughts on “2669. On becoming a princess”

  7. Badfinger (Max)

    I have a question Bruce. Everytime I hear a European, Australian, or someone from New Zealand…say anything about college…it’s always “university”…we use that also some but do you guys ever say “college?” Just curious as always…I guess if I was a cat I would be dead.

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    1. Bruce Goodman Post author

      I don’t know the specifics of the term, but Massey University and Lincoln University (both universities in NZ) were known as Massey College and Lincoln College before they were declared to be Universities. And then big time British Universities are divided into colleges – like Cambridge University have a Magdalene College and Jesus College – I think Cambridge University is made up of about 30 colleges. So the short answer to your question is that I don’t have a bloody clue! Your follower – obbverse – would probably know better than me. Having said all that, in NZ a college is a high school (both terms are used). I went to Silverstream College which is age 13 to 17.

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      1. Badfinger (Max)

        Well that is completely different with the word college with 13-17. We usually say…I go to college…but with everyone else…it’s I go to University…I think…
        So in one sense…colleges make up a university….Bruce I’m sorry about this stupid question lol

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        1. Bruce Goodman Post author

          No – it’s not a stupid question. Just yesterday I was asking an American what a Professor was. In NZ a professor is Head of a Department in a University. There’s only a few of them, for example there is only one Music Professor. All other lecturing staff are called Lecturers. But on American tele every man and his dog seems to be a Professor!

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          1. Badfinger (Max)

            Yes…my son is getting his masters just in case he wants to be a professor…it’s just a college teacher here…as far as I know.

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