Prince Charming (Adam and the Ants song) representing an element of Adam Ant’s personality. The video ends with Adam smashing a mirror, then singing the "Prince Charming, Prince Charming/Ridicule is nothing to be scared of" refrain as different characters: the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"), Alice Cooper, Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan (Rudolph Valentino from the silent film "The Sheik"), and his own "Dandy highwayman" from the "Stand and Deliver" video. The music video was one of Diana Dors' last on-screen performances. According to Adam, Prince Charming is based on Beau Brummell. Pirroni described the song as "A cleverer
Prince Charming The prince charmed by her words... did not know how to express his joy.") It has sometimes been suggested that this passage later inspired the term, "Prince Charming", even though it is the prince who is charmed ("charmé") here, not who is being charming ("charmant"). In the 17th century, Madame d'Aulnoy wrote two fairy tales, "The Story of Pretty Goldilocks", where the hero was named "Avenant" ("Fine", "Beautiful", in French), and "The Blue Bird", where the hero was "Le roi Charmant" ("The Charming King"). When Andrew Lang retold the first (in 1889) for "The Blue Fairy Book", he rendered the