Today, my daughter’s dreams came true.
Today, the future her little five-year-old heart always yearned for became a possibility.
Because today, Princess officially became a ‘job’.
And it’s the job my daughter wants.
In case you’ve been sleeping, Kate and William filed the birth certificate for their daughter Princess Charlotte today, and in the space where it says ‘Occupation’, it says “Princess of the United Kingdom”.
Because that’s a job now.
In William’s, it says “Prince of the United Kingdom” but, you know what? No little boy I know has ever told me he wants to grow up to be a handsome prince.
But whenever I ask my daughter what she wants to be when she grows up, she answers, without hesitation, “A Princess”.
Well, not always. Sometimes, she aims higher: “A Queen.”
It has been this way since she changed her answer from “Mermaid”, about a year ago.
My daughter is already obsessed with the baby princess, purely because she is one.
Now. At last. I can tell her that “Princess” is now officially a job she can strive for.
Except, I can’t.
Thank god, someone agrees: “The very good reason you shouldn’t buy your daughter a tiara.“
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Kate actually rejected the title of Princess William of Wales in favour of Duchess of Cambridge when she got married. But she is entitled to use the title of Princess.
Also, come on. Your daughter's five - this is not her set-in-stone job fantasy. Let her dream.
But let's be realistic here. By the time she's grown up they're saying robots will have replaced most jobs and the only prospects for work will be in obscure tech fields that your daughter surely wont be fantasising about as a childhood dream job. The days of choosing between very easily understood options like policeman, banker, florist, pilot, are past. Let her have her mermaid and princess fantasies. No matter how much you might want her to embrace your feminist views now, she's a kid, she will grow up.