Remember, Mom, You are the Queen of This Queendom!

I find it amazing that the movies that we watch to some extent always have a ring of truth to them, regardless of whether or not the author intends for them to or not.

The Princess Diaries came on tonight, and being a romantic sap, I just had to watch it. :) Here is the thing though. It speaks to all of us who ever imagined what it would be like to be royalty. I don't think there is a one amongst us who didn't at sometime in their childhood want to play the part of a prince or princess.

The fairy tale dream was that one day we would grow up and become royalty, be treated with respect, receive special privileges, attend fancy balls in our custom designer dresses. Okay, so maybe not that last one (especially for you guys out there), but I doubt that there is one individual out there that didn't desire to feel special, back then and still today.

The other day I was surfing the net, specifically on the Above Rubies website, and I found an article about this exact thing entitled Called to Queenhood by Nancy Campbell.

In today's society we would not label anyone that we meet on a regular basis as a queen or a king, we would save that kind of language for the fairy tales that we read to our children. I think in some very real ways that is really quite a shame. It is in all of us, from quite an early age, to strongly desire and seek such fairy tale lives. May I go so far as to say, we are born with it? With the strong desire to be special, to reign over a kingdom, to be the King or Queen.

It never really dawned on me, as of my wedding day, that I had assumed the role of Queen, though that is exactly what happened. I became a wife, and just like in the movie, I had to learn what that truly meant. I had to realize that I had now been given a kingdom, the home, to rule.

I find that there are days in which I am tired, and that I don't feel like being a queen, but nevertheless, the Queen of England wakes up everyday as the Queen. So I have a choice, just as the girl in the Princess Diaries did, to moan and complain about the responsibilities that accompany the position and try to escape, or to fully embrace them and see the benefits of Queenship. Is it easy? I don't think so but I hear that it gets easier with experience. You'll have to ask me again in a few years.