1st Royal Russian Wedding in 100 years
Feeding the Fantasy.
What is the setting for Cinderella?
Do you get different answers for the Disney version and the original?
Yesterday’s uniform essay reminded me of that little bit of costume history puzzle that I have never solved. One day I will read a book about the making of Disney and Cinderella and all of the other powerful stories that made young me and most of America; to find out what magical kingdom Prince Charming will inherit. But! until then, I will rely on hunch and internet gist - Cinderella is essence of prince. Not precise prince from exact time and place. He is the American version of what this anti-royalty country thinks a prince should be.
Don’t Prince Charming and the Romanov dad look alike? I wonder how Disneyland manages the similarities.
I think the answer to where is Cinderella set? is Europe. Like, the whole thing. You know … the only photos and portraits of European princes that follow this Prince Charming formula, though, are the Romanov’s and their cousins the Brits. I am s…
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