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 (Adam and the Ants song) song than any of you realise." On 27 March 2010, Rolf Harris claimed on BBC Radio 5 Live's Danny Baker Show that an out-of-court settlement had been reached, with a large sum of royalties received, after a musicologist found "Prince Charming" to be musically identical to Harris's 1965 song "War Canoe". Prince Charming (Adam and the Ants song) "Prince Charming" was a number-one single in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks in September 1981 for Adam and the Ants. Written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni, and featuring on the album of the same name, it was Adam and