Can anyone tell me any details they know about this book??

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Can anyone tell me any details they know about this book??

I'm after a book I once read when I was in primary school. I cant remember what it was called or who the author was. It would have been published in either 1980-1990. It's a short childrens novel about 7? sisters who are princesses which are all named after a gemstone. In it, the youngest daughter, amythest, is told that she is too be married to a young prince her own age from a neighboring kingdom. So she runs away into the forest and meets a young boy (unbeknown to the princess as being the young prince) in the process. They continue meeting one another untill they fight with their parents about thier arranged marriages, as they have both fallen in love with each other. Not being able to change their parents minds, they sadly prepare to meet their promised one...when the moment arrives, the princess amythest is surprised as her arranged partner is the young boy from the forest, who is actually the young prince from the neighboring kingdom. Can anyone help me on this?? Thankyou!! :D

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "The Ordinary Princess" by MM Kaye
http://www.amazon.com/ordinary-princess-...
"The story opens in the kingdom of Phantasmorania (great name, no?), where the seventh royal princess is born. At first, Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne appears to be like any other beautiful, good-tempered princess. But then a crabby but well-meaning fairy puts a two-edged blessing on her: "You shall be ordinary!" And she is. To the dismay of the royals and the court, Amy is mousy-haired, snub-nosed, freckled, and thoroughly graceless. She prefers romping in the woods to drifting around playing with a golden ball, as her sisters do.

Dismayed, her parents try to rig up a crisis to get her married off. But Amy doesn't want to be treated in such a way, and has no wish to embarrass her family. So she sets off across the woods, and enters a neighboring kingdom, where she becomes a kitchen maid and has to work for the first time in her life. There she befriends a squirrel and a bird - and a mystery "man of all work" named Perry, who becomes her best friend..."