The word 'princess' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it any time in casual or formal writing to refer to a female royal figure, usually of high birth. For example: "The Princess was wearing an exquisite dress that shimmered in the sunlight."
Even so, for an Idol junkie like me (I've watched the show since season one, when Kelly Clarkson was crowned America's newest pop princess), there was more than a little heartache in the announcement.
At school she was known as the princess in waiting and, according to Hays, this time to the Mail on Sunday, was said to have joked: "There's no one quite like William – I bet he's really kind.
It speaks of a desire for revenge for an old wrong, the rape and murder of a princess by a man in the Lannisters' command.
Her last film, excepting a quirky appearance as an nymphomaniac princess in Mike Hodges's Pulp (1972), was as a press agent who discovers country boy singer Elvis Presley in Loving You (1957) and sets him on the road to fame.
We don't mean the druggy, slaggy princess who looks like Kate, nor her brother the crowd-surfing prince, brilliant though they both are.
This weekend's Solange Knowles Alan Ferguson bash offers a few ideas No out-of-character Marchesa princess moment for this bride.
It's a princess-moment frock with modest off-the-shoulder straps, a huge train and Victorian-style veil, all finished with a Kate Middleton blow-dry.
This all being said, the appeals to the Bunty-Princess Tina mindset are entirely intact.
Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, did not have to undergo gender verification at the 1976 Olympics due to "royal courtesy".
Thatcher's funeral will have full military honours, Downing Street confirmed on Tuesday, with the same status as the ceremonies of Princess Diana and the Queen Mother.
One such piece is the pearl-drop earring that Charles I wore as he went to the executioner's block in 1649, coming with a convincing note of authentication from Queen Mary II, who wrote: "This pearle was taken out of ye King my grandfather's ear after he was beheaded & given ye Princess Royall" – referring to Charles's eldest daughter Mary, later Mary of Orange.
