Princess Bubble Doesn’t Need Prince Charming to Live Happily Ever After


There’s a new fairy tale princess in town: Princess Bubble.

Before you roll your eyes, however, I should note that Princess Bubble is different from other princesses: she ain’t no damsel in distress, and she don’t need to be rescued.


Authors Susan Johnston and Kimberly Webb have co-written a fairytale whose heroine teaches little girls they don’t need Prince Charming to live happily ever after. Like her creators, Princess Bubble is single, has a college degree and owns her own home. She works as a flight attendant, meeting friends as she travels all over the globe.

I haven’t read this fairy tale yet, but I have to say, if I were the parent of a little girl, this would be a must-have bedtime read. With so much of literature marketed to little girls focusing on the traditional princess archetype (I’m looking at YOU, Disney’s Princess Collection), with all the wicked stepmothers and witches from whom she must be rescued, Princess Bubble is a stand-out example to impressionable girls that happily ever after comes from being self-fulfilled and independent, not from a fairy godmother or handsome prince.

"We are not anti-prince. We are anti-damsel in distress," said Johnston in her interview with CNN. She references her own situation as a single woman as exemplary that, prince or no prince, as long as she is comfortable with herself and seeks to be a loving and kind person, a single princess can live happily ever after, after all.