Diana Dors Adam and the Ants music video "Prince Charming", where she played the fairy godmother opposite Adam Ant, who played a male Cinderella figure. Having turned her life story into a cash flow through interviews and leaked tabloid stories, like many celebrities in their later careers, she turned to the autobiography to generate retirement cash. Between 1978 and 1984, she published four autobiographical books under her own name: "For Adults Only", "Behind Closed Dors", "Dors by Diana", and "A. to Z. of Men". Having gone through her first round of cancer treatment, by the early 1980s Dors' hour-glass figure had become
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