Ha! I have a theory... Just had a few minutes' look through A Book of Princes (in the Hamish Hamilton series of Books of - including the A Book of Princesses I gave you) and there *are* Charmings who are the protag/heroes too, along with another Michael (also a Bull, a Wish and a Gallow! These tend not to be classical fairy tales, unsurprisingly.). But my just-generated theory is that the Prince who goes as merely that matches his parents, who are merely the Queen and the King. It's enough to identify him as his position and leave it at that, while the female heroine (only the odd few deserve the title of Hero) NEEDS - often enough - to be described - again, frequently by her physical attributes - in order to explain why she's worthy of her status, such as it is.
Florizel, btw, was in "Melisande" and possibly also some other versions of "Rapunzel", though I'm not sure about the latter.
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Date: 2009-04-04 08:26 am (UTC)Florizel, btw, was in "Melisande" and possibly also some other versions of "Rapunzel", though I'm not sure about the latter.