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the princess Rules A CLASSiC FAT RYTALE WORLD... BUT SHES NO ORDINARY PRINCeSS PHILIPPA GREGORY Illustrations by Chris Chatterton

《公主守则》：经典胖童话世界…… 但她可不是普通的公主哦——作者：菲利帕·格里高利，插画：克里斯·查特顿

Chapter one Forizellas parents completely Jail to open their windows Jora passing stork to drop a baby on them one upon a time (that means I don't exactly know when, but it wasn't that long ago), in the land called the Seven Kingdoms, the king and queen very much wanted a son. They waited and waited until one day the queen told her husband, "I have news for you. We are going to have a beautiful baby boy!"

第一章 弗洛里泽拉的爸妈完全忘了开窗户，没等来路过的鹳鸟给他们送小宝宝。很久很久以前（意思就是我也说不清具体是啥时候啦，反正也不是特别久以前），在一个叫七大王国的地方，国王和王后特别想要个儿子。 他们等啊等啊，终于有一天，王后对丈夫说：“我有个消息要告诉你哦。” 我们就要有个漂亮的小男孩啦！”

"And when he grows up he will be king," said the king, very pleased. "What a lovely surprise." But when the baby came, it was not a boy. It was a girl. This was a big shock for the king and queen, but since they were royal they put on a smile and took the baby through the tall windows to the balcony of the palace and waved at everyone. They pretended that they did not mind that she was a girl when they had been counting on a boy, and after a little while they loved her anyway. "Besides," the king said, "undoubtedly she will marry a handsome rich prince, and they can be king and queen over his kingdom and ours. Undootedly!" "We'll call her Florizella," said the queen. "Princess Florizella." Though they started with good intentions, the king and queen were dreadfully careless parents. They messed up the christening by inviting

“等他长大了，他就是国王啦。”国王特别开心地说。 “这真是个惊喜呀。” 可等宝宝出生的时候，却不是个男孩。 是个小女孩。 这可把国王和王后吓了一大跳，不过他们毕竟是王室成员，还是挤出了笑容，抱着宝宝穿过高大的窗户，走到宫殿的阳台上，对着大家挥手。 他们原本满心盼着要个男孩，现在却假装一点都不在意生的是女孩，没过多久，他们是真的爱上这个小宝贝了。 “再说啦，”国王说，“她以后肯定会嫁给一个又英俊又有钱的王子，他们可以一起统治他的王国，还有我们的王国。 肯定是这样的！” “我们就叫她弗洛里泽拉吧。”王后说。 “弗洛里泽拉公主。” 虽然一开始国王和王后的出发点是好的，可他们实在是太粗心的父母了。 他们筹办洗礼的时候把所有人都请来，

everyone, so that nobody was furiously offended. No angry witches blew in and put a fatal spell on the baby, nobody turned her into a mouse. The king and queen forgot all about locking her in a high tower so that a prince could climb up her hair to rescue her, they did not forbid her from spinning, or ban her from sharp needles. They did remind her not to run with scissors in her hands, but this is of no use to a fairytale princess– it's just normal. They did not strap her into tight gowns so she had a tiny, tiny waist that a prince could span with one hand. They did not feed her poisoned apples and bury her in a glass coffin. The queen was particularly neglectful– she completely failed to die and leave her daughter to a cruel stepmother to make her herd geese or sit in the cinders. They let Florizella do as she liked, and so it was partly their fault that she did not learn the Princess Rules, but grew up into a cheerful, noisy, bossy, happy girl who spent her mornings on her horse called Jellybean, and her afternoons working with them in the royal office. She

结果根本没人被气得火冒三丈。 没有愤怒的女巫闯进来给宝宝下致命的咒语，也没人把她变成小老鼠。 国王和王后完全忘了要把她锁在高塔上，好让王子顺着她的头发爬上来救她，他们也没禁止她纺纱，没不让她碰尖针。 他们倒是提醒过她别拿着剪刀乱跑，可这对童话里的公主来说一点用都没有——这都是普通的日常要求呀。 他们没给她穿紧紧的礼服，好让她的腰细到王子一只手就能圈住。 他们也没给她吃毒苹果，再把她埋进玻璃棺材里。 王后更是特别“不称职”——她根本就没去世，没留下女儿给恶毒的继母虐待，让她去放鹅或者坐在煤灰里干活。 他们让弗洛里泽拉想做什么就做什么，所以她没学会《公主守则》，这事多少得怪他们。不过她长成了一个开朗、爱闹、有主见、开开心心的女孩，早上她会骑着她叫软糖豆的马去玩，下午就去王室办公室和大家一起工作。 她

particularly liked answering letters of complaint about the expense and the unimportance of a royal family. Mostly, she agreed with them. "We are dretfully ex-pence-sieve" she wrote when she was six years old. "You're never going to post it like that!" said the king. "So sweet," said the queen, putting it in the bin. Florizella was friends with some princesses who had studied the Princess Rules, and behaved just as the Rules said they should. Florizella thought their hair was lovely: so golden and so very long! And their clothes were nice: so richly embroidered by devoted peasants. And their shoes were delightful: so tiny and handmade in silk! But their days bored her to death!

特别喜欢回复那些抱怨王室太费钱、没什么用处的来信。 大多数时候，她都觉得来信说的没错。 “我们真的超——级费钱的。”她六岁的时候这么写回信。 “你总不能就这么把信寄出去吧！”国王说。 “真可爱呀。”王后一边说，一边把信扔进了垃圾桶。 弗洛里泽拉有几个公主朋友，她们都学过《公主守则》，一举一动都完全照着守则来。 弗洛里泽拉觉得她们的头发好看极了：金闪闪的，还特别长！ 她们的衣服也很漂亮：都是忠心的农妇绣了满满花纹的。 她们的鞋子也特别可爱：小小的，全是丝绸做的手工鞋！ 可她们的日子实在是把她无聊坏了！