Resumo de Princess Victoria And Three Suitors

Princess Victoria and the Three Suitors is a victory story of exquisite Princess Victoria. She ultimately finds an admirer that matches her ideal of a husband. Against every blackmail and mockery, she has for seven years clung to her philosophy, rejecting every admirer or suitor not corresponding to it: Six-feet tall, at the least, pronounced masculinity in voice, physique and carriage: but he must demonstrate he appreciates her beyond her (really captivating) looks, must be a man of a broad-minded outlook on life, and must place the integrity of their relationship of love above personal tics and desires.
Because most applicants for her love and union have for seven years failed to satisfy these ideals, her father, the king of Gustos, approaches the pits of ultimate despair. He is compelled to publicise her idealisms so that admirers know what exactly she looks for.
Victoria recognises a man?s suitability mainly by instinct and intuition. Therefore, the letters and personal photographs admirers are required by tradition to send to her, as first approaches and applications, reveal enough to her about their true personalities and intentions. Enough to enable her decide whether to grant them follow-up interviews with her in the palace.
One May, three consecutive applications come from three suitors-David, Dugald and Derrick. All but David satisfy her fancy for tall, well-built physical stature and for pronounced masculinity. David is only five feet four inches tall, with a dovish carriage and not-too-sonorous voice. These appearances sharply contrast those of Dugald and Derrick, who are respectively six feet and six-feet-four inches tall, their voices and postures vibrating with prominent masculinity. But, in common with Derrick, David embodies the very personal traits of the Princess? yearnings, which he demonstrates in the modesty and unpretentiousness of his amorous letter to her, in his modest deportment during his interview with her, and in his unassuming request for her companionship. He is not maniacal about her longing for her, not expectant (or desperate) that she will grant his request, nor does he show he considers himself deserving of her on any account. Dugald is short on those human qualities, despite his flawlessly manly physique, the very quintessence of Victoria?s physical fancy. Bombastic in speech and in writing, self-congratulatory and over-confident in all his gestures, he reveals the emptiness of his all-mighty and imposing masculine physical stature, justifying suspicions that he is attracted to the princess, as with the generality, on account only of her glorious physical charms and enviable royal prestige.

Consequently, rejecting Dugald, she chooses David-after a momentary wavering over him and Derrick. Considerations of the maturities and stoicisms of both, in terms of their abilities to bear her denial of their request for her hand, informed her choice, Derrick being the more resilient. She, however, settles for what, to Derrick, might seem a happy medium between an unfaithful two-timing and a jealousy-arousing one-man-one-woman sexual relationship. She pronounces David her "beloved" and Derrick the very friend of her soul.
Neither of them objecting, an intimate relationship with both will follow. With one as with a sexual partner, and with the other as with a next of kin.
This decision seems a testimony to the peculiarity of her inner constitution, which, for seven years, has made her so insistent and unflagging in her unprecedented curiosity.

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