Isabella of Castile (The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Real Princesses)

About this book

Combining the romance and enchantment of princesses with a message of youthful female empowerment these books are about girls who didnt just sit around waiting to be rescued. Against great odds they changed their own livesand their worlds. Stories of princesses from different cultures and different epochs in history are richly illustrated with photographs maps and lovely pen-and-watercolor paintings that help bring these fascinating females to life. In a twist on the classic fairy tale a princess in 15th-century Spain refused to wait to be rescued by a prince and instead chose one for herself. Even then she would not marry him until theyd reached an agreement that was revolutionary for her timetheir marriage was an equal partnership captured in the motto To stand as high as high to stand Isabella and Ferdinand. This book tells Isabella of Castiles story with sections on the clothes she wore the foods she ate and why she is remembered today. Without her both Spain and the United States would not exist in their current forms.