Princess cake design

On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve princess cake design article by adding citations to reliable sources. Princess is a title used by a female member of a monarch’s family or by a female ruler.

Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince, or for the daughter of a monarch. Some princesses are reigning monarchs of principalities. There have been fewer instances of reigning princesses than reigning princes, as most principalities excluded women from inheriting the throne. An example of a princess regnant is Constance of Antioch, princess regnant of Antioch in the 12th century. For many centuries, the title “princess” was not regularly used for a monarch’s daughter, who, in English, might simply be called “Lady”. Old English had no female equivalent of “prince”, “earl”, or any other royal or noble title aside from queen.

Royal women were simply addressed or referred to as “The Lady “. Practice in Britain began to change in the 18th century. In European countries, a woman who marries a prince will almost always become a princess, but a man who marries a princess will almost never become a prince, unless specifically created so. Queen Elizabeth II issued Letters Patent dated 21 August 1996, stating that any woman divorced from a Prince of the United Kingdom would no longer be entitled to the style “Royal Highness”. This has so far applied to Diana, Princess of Wales, and Sarah, Duchess of York. In some cases, “princess” is used as a term of endearment to express love for a woman. For example, throughout the 1997 film Life Is Beautiful the protagonist Guido calls his beloved Dora “principessa”, Italian for “princess”.