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
Adam Ant I was halfway through making "Prince Charming", and so on, because we had to bring out an album and four singles a year. But the price you pay... I split my cartilage in Cleveland doing "Goody Two Shoes", it was my body saying, 'Look, no!' Then I was back onstage doing the Motown 25 [in 1983] show 10 days later, having had the operation. Nobody could have stopped me, or make me do it. I did it. I was very, very bad at pacing," he later remembered. In March 1982, feeling certain band members "lacked enthusiasm" Ant disbanded the group.