Ashputtel is strong, wise, resilient and above all, kind to a fault. These values can be seen in people throughout history, in the chapters of our own lives and the stories that we’ve shared from our earliest days. Taking the princess out of a story replaces her with a much stronger woman, but it is the Prince that is the true hero here because he values what lies beneath the superficial.

This is a lesson that challenges expectations of our modern world.