Skip to main content
Skip to main navigation
Skip to talk navigation

Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Saved Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Flip

1 2 3 4 5 6

AIBU?

To think that this should not be every little girl's dream?

134 replies

IForgotMyPencil · 02/08/2013 18:34

Just been watching the 6 o'clock news on the BBC, where Fiona Bruce claimed it was "every little girl's dream" to be able to write her occupation as "Princess". Following on from the Duchess of Cambridge entering "Princess of the UK" as her occupation when registering her son's birth. Am I being unreasonable to think that there are other things little girl's should aspire to be? And for that matter, the BBC should not be enforcing the stereotype that all little girls want to be princesses!

OP posts:

Report

VileWoman · 02/08/2013 23:13

I wanted to work in a bank, my sister wanted to be a writer, DD1 (5) wants to be a scientist, DD2 (4) wants to be a pirate. I think that is actually worse than wanting to be a princess! So Fiona Bruce is wrong, every little girl's dream is not to be a princess.

Elsiequadrille · 02/08/2013 23:17

You're quite right in everything you say! Yanbu.

FreudiansSlipper · 02/08/2013 23:18

not thankfully it is not every girls dream to marry a rich man and do very little but turn up places looking nice

sadly it is what too many young women aspire too

Angelfootprints · 02/08/2013 23:22

Well I wanted to be just like princess Ariel.

Alisvolatpropiis · 02/08/2013 23:24

I always want to look nice, so I do it's not that hard rfor anybody really

I also want to be rich. Granted I would prefer that be rich from my own money but if I met and fell in love with a rich man - am I meant to sack him off because I am not rich myself?

Bearing in mind that to me and my (not by any means poor) family, the Middletons fall into the "rich" category regardless of their royal connections.

mrsjay · 02/08/2013 23:27

I agree with you whole heartedly but I dont think little girls who love princesses are any less IYSWIM, and TBH my dd loves Kate she seems a lovely person and not the traditional simpering princess

LauraShigihara · 02/08/2013 23:28

My DD wanted to be a paleontologist when she grew up, so is living proof that Fiona Bruce is wrong.

I take full responsibility - I hate pink, loathe the monarchy and don't have a romantic bone in my body so what hope did she have of marrying William?

mrsjay · 02/08/2013 23:28

DD wanted to be princess jasmine when she was wee

marienbadmadsad · 02/08/2013 23:33

Like most girls in my class I wanted to be a nun or a ballet dancer.

edam · 02/08/2013 23:34

Elphaba, what's with the only daughters of the two eldest sons get to be princesses idea? I'm sure in generations past every grandchild of a male child of the sovereign got to be a prince or princess. Hence Prince Michael of Kent.

FreudiansSlipper · 02/08/2013 23:34

i am sure many girls want to be a princess at some point and like to play at being a princess, many boys (and girls) want to be a racing driver but it is not mentioned in the news in the same way i have yet to hear Lewis Hamilton won today and every little boy dreams of doing the same one day

mrsjay · 02/08/2013 23:34

I wanted to be a zoo keeper im not

babybythesea · 02/08/2013 23:54

"I take full responsibility - I hate pink, loathe the monarchy and don't have a romantic bone in my body so what hope did she have of marrying William"

Me too Laura. And yet DD, at 4, loves pink, is fascinated by the princess, tells me hearts mean love, wears dresses rather than trousers (the prettier the better) and asked for lipstick the other day.

I haven't worn a dress since she was born, apart from my sister's wedding day. I don't own any make up at all and haven't since my late teens. I like wellies and being outside. DD has taken me by surprise - I don't know where it comes from. It is who she is at the moment though!
My mum thinks it's hysterical and tells me with glee that I have a real little girly girl. I know - it is weird!

MidniteScribbler · 03/08/2013 01:46

Could be worse. Late night television one night had a woman being awarded playmate of the month or some such rubbish. Her parents were crying and said "this is so much more than we could ever have dreamed she would achieve."

WafflyVersatile · 03/08/2013 01:54

No it shouldn't.

IT would give me a kick to write Princess of the UK on a form mind.

nooka · 03/08/2013 01:56

It's just a dumb cliched thing to say really. Many little girls do dream about being a princess, but not in a real Princess of Wales when I'm grown up type way, more a fairly tale and right now context (with no writing involved I suspect).

FloweryOwl · 03/08/2013 02:40

The other day I asked my three and a half year old dd what job she would like when she was older and she told me she would like to be 'the spongebob that walks around Blackpool Pleasure Beach.'

EugenesAxe · 03/08/2013 05:44

I agree with RemoteControl - the BBC seem to have been delivering what's (IMO) a non-important item of celebrity news with a squidgey introduction that will appeal to the masses.

'Princess on Board' or clothes saying 'Daddy's Princess' - let's face it, a lot of people buy into it all. Of course it doesn't mean the BBC genuinely think that, or that it reflects reality.

ElphabaTheGreen · 03/08/2013 07:03

Edam I'm not sure where I got the two eldest son thing. Maybe it's a recent thing, part of the queen's downsizing of the family? Neither of Edward's kids are prince or princess, but they've been given token titles.

edam · 03/08/2013 10:15

YY Elphaba, I've wondered how on earth Edward's children are only Lady and Viscount while the other grandchildren (of sons) are princesses or princes. It's the first time it's ever happened, as far as I know.

Only reason I can think of is the downsizing of the royals. Seems a bit unfair on Louise and whatever her brother is called, though, to be treated differently from their cousins.

Apparently the reason he's an Earl, not a Duke, is that he will inherit the Edinburgh title from Philip.

IneedAyoniNickname · 03/08/2013 10:18

My mum told me that Edwards children aren't prinxe(ess) as their mum wouldn't allow it. Not sure how true that is though. She's a royalist, and has tons of books about them so I've always assumed she knows what she's talking about.

IneedAyoniNickname · 03/08/2013 10:19

At least I think she was talking about Edwards children

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Email address

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

mrsjay · 03/08/2013 10:20

Her parents were crying and said "this is so much more than we could ever have dreamed she would achieve.

god sake I wonder when her playboy dream started that is really chilling crying over your dd getting her bobs out

mrsjay · 03/08/2013 10:21

Edwards daughter is lady louise she was a flower girl at the wedding not sure what the little boys title is ( is his name james ?)

mrsjay · 03/08/2013 10:22

princess annes children do not have Titles she took the HRH away from them whent hey were children so they are just Zara and Peter Phillips

Flip

1 2 3 4 5 6

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.