Princess

NEW YORK - Carnival Cruise Lines prices have taken a dip this spring, according to pricing data, and some industry observers blame headlines about problems on several Carnival ships. Todd Elliott, owner of Cruise Vacation Outlet, said his agents had seen a drop in price of 20 percent or more for equivalent cruises. "Rates are far lower than I have seen in a while; for example, the Carnival Dream, seven nights, Eastern Caribbean out of Port Canaveral, May 4 is $299 per person," he said.

The Duchess of York (aka Fergie) and her newborn daughter are already home from the hospital, and the kid still doesn't have a name. We'd be glad to help. This newspaper could sponsor a Name-the-Princess Contest. We've had a lot of experience, and we're sure the Zoo would be glad to give us a reference. EL SECRETARY Lauro Cavazos of Texas this week became the first Hispanic ever appointed to a presidential cabinet. The new secretary of education will serve only a few months; his predecessor, William Bennett, doesn't leave until Sept.

Jenyiah, 6, loves to be in the spotlight and dreams of one day winning the American Idol competition or being "Princess for a Day. " In the meantime she is busy doing all kinds of "girly things" such as playing with dolls and dressing up and getting new clothes. Jenyiah enjoys styling hair and is quite adept at making long braids. Other favorite pastimes include playing educational computer games, having stories read to her, and riding her bicycle and scooter. Jenyiah is a bundle of energy and doesn't enjoy any activity where she has to sit still.

The tour starts at 12:30 p.m. every weekday, led by enthusiastic volunteers in love with the grand old building. It is inspiring to hear the history, to discover the hidden delights in a structure so superficially familiar yet, really, so unknown. It is also terribly frustrating. The closing years of City Hall's first century are leaving the massive building desperately in need of care. With foundation walls 25 feet thick, it is far too sturdy to fall down or apart. But like an aging, forgotten princess clinging to a ratty coat, its dingy exterior sags pathetically.

Prince Andrew arrived at a London hospital today with a bouquet of red roses to visit his wife, Sarah, and their newborn daughter as delighted Britons celebrated the princess' birth on an especially lucky day. Champagne corks popped, bells rang and cameras flashed outside Portland Hospital in central London with the announcement last night of the birth of a 6-pound, 12-ounce girl to Andrew, the Duke of York, and his red-haired duchess, the former...

Epic and intimate, historical and contemporary, moving and thought-provoking, the impressive "The Princess of Montpensier" has something for all and sundry but especially for those who like to believe that films can be as boldly intelligent as they are entertaining. As directed and co-written by the veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier with an expert cast of familiar and unfamiliar faces, "Princess" is a costume production rich in all manner of classic dramatic elements. Say hello to selfish schemes, bitter rivalries and the complexities of power and dynastic relationships at a time when France was divided by a bloody religious war between Catholics and Protestant Huguenots.

"I am thrilled to have worked so closely again with Jamie Lee Curtis, who has the most famous pair of bazooms in your country. " - Brit actor John Cleese, on his "Fierce Creatures" co-star As Princess Diana walked a minefield in Angola yesterday, she was unwittingly walking one at home. Some of Britain's conservative pols are furious with remarks she's made this week while on a Red Cross mission in war-ravaged Angola, calling for an international ban on land mines.

There's a word for women like Giselle: Supercalifragilistic. Ditto her film, Enchanted . A cartoon princess from the fairy-tale kingdom of Andalasia, Giselle falls down a well, comes up a sewer, and lifts a manhole cover to find herself - now made of flesh and blood - smack in the middle of Broadway. Both in the geographical and musical meanings of the word. Amid the hectic rush and rudeness of this Whole New World, the pilgrim in white taffeta remains undaunted in her quest for True Love's Kiss, which inspires her to song.

One of the most catastrophically mis-marketed films of the year, A Little Princess deserved a better fate and a bigger audience. A visually stunning adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic about a fanciful young girl left in a strict, stuffy boarding school when her father goes off to war, the movie is an ode to the power of storytelling. (Burnett's book, published in 1888, was titled Sara Crewe.) With production design by longtime Tim Burton collaborator Bo Welch (the Indian prince fantasies are a picture-book marvel sprung to life)

DEAR ABBY: We have a grandson who is 4 and very much a "princess boy. " He likes girl toys and dresses and doesn't like any of his boy toys. He's an adorable little boy and we love him to pieces. His parents don't accept this behavior, and I'm afraid it will affect him now and in the future. How would you handle this? We don't say anything to his parents because they are pretty much in denial. - Worried Grandma DEAR WORRIED: If he were my grandchild I'd talk with the parents.

Welsh-born Princess Lilian of Sweden, 97, whose decades-long love story with the king's uncle was one of the better-kept secrets of the royal household, died Sunday. A brief statement on the Royal Palace's website said Princess Lilian died at her home in Stockholm. It didn't give a cause of death, but she had Alzheimer's disease and had been in poor health for several years. Lilian Craig met Prince Bertil in 1943, but the prince's obligations to the throne and Lilian's status as a divorced commoner prevented them from making their love public, and it would take more than 30 years before they could marry.

So your baby bump is at the six-month mark, and you've got an important luncheon to attend. What to wear? If you're Kate Middleton, our favorite preggers princess, you would probably do long, lacy sleeves on a fitted pastel sheath - belted right above the tummy. On your feet, matching strappy pumps, of course. And no Duchess of Cambridge look is complete without a perfectly perched pillbox. So say the fashion-foreshadowers at Destination Maternity, the Philadelphia-based parent company of A Pea in the Pod and Motherhood Maternity.

A camel at a Central New Jersey zoo has predicted the winner in seven of the last eight Super Bowls. Baltimore football fans are hoping her streak continues. Princess, a 26-year-old camel at the Popcorn Park Zoo in Forked River, Ocean County, has chosen the Ravens to beat the San Francisco 49ers, zoo manager John Bergmann said. "She's been pretty uncanny," said Bergmann, who said he was a bit surprised at Princess' choice. In the playoffs, she picked the 49ers to beat the Atlanta Falcons, but chose the Denver Broncos over the Ravens.

The princess is pregnant! While the news is tinged with some anxiety, given that poor Kate has this form of extreme morning sickness, we'll all keep that stiff British upper lip and hope for the best. Pregnancy is the great female leveler. It's an experience only half of humankind can know firsthand. Modern science and social leaps aside, it's women's work. For princesses and for paupers. Among those of us who have birthed babies, there's a sisterhood that's wide and vast and deep and humbling - and somehow still impossible to explain.

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend, "Richard," and I are a mature couple who have been seeing each other for three years. I love him. My dog is the issue. "Princess" is a 2-year-old rat terrier/mini-pinscher mix. She weighs 9 pounds and is spoiled. (I admit I'm a softy when it comes to discipline.) She barks at anyone and anything she sees. Her barks are shrill and can be annoying. But I live alone and feel she is protecting me. Richard can no longer tolerate Princess' barking and has curbed his visits considerably.

Few shows in this Philly Fringe will plumb the depths of the human psyche more than Witold Gombrowicz's Ivona, Princess of Burgundia . When courtiers in this fictional kingdom encounter the hideous Ivona (Heather Cole), they find her passive ugliness increasingly disturbing, an unbearable affront. She returns their teasing malice with rage-inspiring apathy. Prince Phillip (David Stanger) turns ridicule into a ruse; he decides to marry the girl, throwing the royal family into a murderous fury.

People have been wondering which local salon gave Miley Cyrus the dramatic new haircut she unveiled to fans on Twitter Sunday night. The pop star, who has been staying around Washington Square for about a month with fiance Liam Hemsworth while he's shooting "Paranoia" with Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman , took an Acela train to and from New York Sunday for her new skater punk haircut, which makes her oddly resemble Justin Bieber. She tweeted that she has never felt more like herself with her new hipster cut. She looks as if she should get a DJ night spinning indie rock/electro at the Barbary (951 Frankford)

Vanessa Paradis , 39, on Tuesday was confronted with that most pressing question: Is she still Johnny Depp 's one and only? Or is the couple no more? The French model, singer, and thesp gave a reply that philosophers will still be deciphering centuries from now. "You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house," Paradis told French radio station Europe 1. "In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.