Princess Patricia Priscilla will soon be 16, marrying age in her kingdom. A birthday ball is planned where suitors will woo her. The very bored princess knows that once she is married, she will not have much freedom, so she swaps clothes with her chambermaid to spend the week as a peasant girl attending the village school. There she meets the handsome, sweetly smart schoolteacher. Meanwhile, the suitors, each awful in his own way, prepare for the ball, as do the princess's parents: the hard-of-hearing queen and the easily distracted king. This is not a kingdom in which royalty is feared; the princess is playful and smart and her servants are cheerful and curious. Everyone is hardworking and upbeat. The princess has a cat named Delicious to whom she always speaks teasingly. For example, when she eyes some birds, the princess tells her, "Don't be malicious, Delicious."
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