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Someday My Prince will Come…because I Say So SANTA MONICA, CA (British Weekly) 01/08/08 - "As a child I was obsessed with princesses," says author Jerramy Fine. "I was sure I’d been switched at birth! My hippy parents couldn’t possibly have spawned someone like me!" Every little girl wants her Prince Charming, but for Fine, it went beyond Disney princesses. Soon she was consumed by anything and everything British. Fine’s first time in England was her semester abroad. Fine didn’t anticipate the effect a British accent would have on her. She thought she’d died and gone to heaven! |
Someday My Prince Will Come is Jerramy Fine’s first book, the true story of her life’s ambition to meet and marry a British royal. The first half of the book is about Fine growing up in a small cowboy town in Western Colorado. When Fine is six years old, she discovers six -year-old Peter Phillips (the queen’s oldest grandson) in the Windsor family tree. She loved that they were the same age and decided that he was the one for her! Fine sees Phillips on television at Sarah Ferguson’s wedding. By the time she’s in her teens, Fine is sending him love letters care of Buckingham Palace. Fine’s organic vegetarian hippie parents don’t understand her fascination.
Fine single-mindedly holds to her childhood dream. She chooses to go to college at the University of Rochester, because of its study abroad program in England. When Fine finally makes it to London, she lands an internship in the House of Commons. She meets Rupert, on his gap year, who’s working as a fellow Parliamentary page. She falls in with Rupert and his upper-class crowd of hard-partying Brits. Will she ruin her reputation and lose her chance with the aristocratic Phillips? Will she even get to meet Phillips?
"I still feel like a princess," says Fine. "I think all women can consider themselves princesses - it’s in the way you carry yourself, how you act, and what you do that makes you a princess. My book is about following your dream. And believing that anything is possible no matter what others tell you." It took Fine nine months to write the book. Next she hopes to, "write an etiquette book for Americans living in London… the language differences, where to live, how to date, the table manners…"
The first half of the book is a little slow, but it’s worth reading to find out what happens in the latter half which is a madcap romp through London.
Someday My Prince Will Come: True Adventures of a Wannabe Princess. Hardback 305 pages. Publisher: Gotham Books (January 10, 2007). Language: English. ISBN- 978-1-592-403523