My Favourite Fairytale and Prince Charming By Holly Kingston

I am delighted to welcome Holly Kingston to Handwritten Girl and as part of the blog tour for her new book ‘A Cinderella Christmas’, I asked Holly, what is her favourite fairyale and who is her favourite Prince Charming?

My ultimate Fairytale would be a Disney combo platter, a fantastical pick and mix of costumes characters and stories!

The tale would start with Cinderella being transformed from a mermaid (stick with me here, this isn’t going to get any more plausible any time soon!) into a human being, with real legs and everything. But she’s warned by the Wicked Witch that she only has one day out of the sea. Our Cinders is on a deadline, 24 hours to find love, then she’s back to being a fish.

Blossoming into a bit of a stunner and wearing a pale blue ball frock covered in diamanté, our Cinders royally gets up the nose of ruler of the realm, the Wicked Stepmother from Snow White. Hair tearingly jealous of Cinders’ fantastic fashion sense and giant hooped skirt, the Stepmother decides to hide Cinderella up a high tower where no-one can ever find her. Unfortunately, Cinderella’s dress is too wide for the narrow steps to the hidden room. So the Stepmother gives up trying to heave her up the stairwell and poisons her instead with a really shiny red apple. She dumps Cinders deep in the forest, and leaves her to perish.

As Cinders slips into an attractive, yet nevertheless debilitating coma, she’s spotted and rescued by the Seven Dwarves. Wanting to protect our heroine, but unwilling to have a sleeping tenant in their already crowded little cottage, the Dwarves drag the sleeping Cinders up a gnarly beanstalk. They carry her on their shoulders into the Beast’s castle where they place her in a crystal casket inside the impressive library. The Dwarves immediately get distracted by all the wonderful books and sit down to have a good read. Even Grumpy enjoys reading!

BOOM! The windows to the library fly open causing pages of the books to flutter, and Aladdin flies in through one of the oak panelled frames. Standing on his floaty blanket doing some kind of impressive yoga pose, he makes a wish to the genie of the lamp for the beautiful Cinderella to awake. Cinders rouses from her stupor and bats those big ‘ole eyelashes at Aladdin. Perhaps she’s found her true love. She doesn’t want to go back to the ocean alone! Unfortunately at that moment, Sneezy the dwarf has an attack of hay-fever, which alerts the Beast to the party going on in his enormous book closet…

The Beast stands in the doorway, towering over his uninvited guests. On seeing the enormous man of the house, Aladdin starts to sweat and does a flyer on his magic carpet taking his shiny lamp with him. Cinders realises that the guy who woke her is a bit of a chicken and definitely not the one for her. As her gaze rests on Beast, Cinders begins to have a semi-terrified panic attack, which summons her Fairy Godmother to her side. The Fairy Godmother swhooshes her sparkly wand through the air and…TADA…

The Beast is transformed into his true princely form.

Instead of legs, he has a single giant fish flipper, covered in gorgeous copper scales.

Well Cinders is immediately smitten! And once they’ve found a nice underwater palace where they can just about afford the mortgage repayments, Cinders and her fella live happily ever after.

THE END.

[amazon_link id=”B00GPCZX04″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link] If I can’t have that story though then I’ll settle for regular ‘Cinderella’!It really is one of my favourite stories. Oooh, although if we’re talking film fairytales, ‘The Princess Bride’ is wonderful to watch! And I love love love ‘Stardust’ too.

Whenever I think Prince Charming my mind always flips to George Clooney. I can’t help it. I have a very optimistic mind. I just worry that he might be a tad old for the part now though. Sorry George. Age discrimination happens in fairy tales too. So maybe George would have to be King Charming, with his dashing son Chris Hemsworth as Prince Charming. But then I’d fancy the King and his Princely son, which would just be wrong. So I’d have to run off with Evil Prince Caspian, played by Colin Farrell. God, this is fun! But, knowing me, I’d probably trip over my giant frilly frock and Prince Caspian would look at me all disenchanted, and run off with one of my sisters. (Not that I have any sisters in the real world. But you know what I mean!)

You can buy Holly’s new book [amazon_link id=”B00GPCZX04″ target=”_blank” ]A Cinderella Christmas from Amazon [/amazon_link] and it’s about a prince, a diva, a tiny cold dog and one very frustrated cow.