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Who's the real princess?

Kate Middleton isn't the only commoner preparing to become a princess. Little girls flock to Orlando in Florida every day to get princess makeovers at Walt Disney World. 

They can cost up to US$190, and eager tourists frequently make bookings for their daughters' fairy tale day up to six months in advance.

Kids as young as five-year-old Nadia Woodrow gets the royal treatment at Florida's Disney World's Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. These kids get royal hair-dos, make-up and nail polish to make them look like their favourite Disney princesses. 

Angela Allen who works at Walt Disney World said:
" I've had a girl so excited that she was screaming.

Disney said this boutique caters to hundreds of wannabe Cinderellas and Snow Whites a day. 

The princess brand is Disney's fastest growing product with US$4 billion annual retail sales.

Stylists predict - as the wedding of Prince William and soon-to-be real-life princess Kate Middleton approaches - demand from young girls could surge further.

Jess Kraus, Retail Guest Service Manager at Walt Disney World said: "It's not a story book or a fairytale. It's real life. And so this to them is equating to real-life and that's very exciting."

But psychologists debate how healthy the current princess craze - with its focus on beauty - is for young girls. 

Clinical Psychologist Stacey Dunn has studied the effects on children aged between three and six. The Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida said: " We didn't find a really negative impact at all. What we found was that body image changes as girls develop but it seems to be independent of exposure to things like princesses."

But Dunn says girls over the age of six are more likely to begin drawing inappropriate comparisons between themselves and their princess idols.

Nadia Woodrow's mother, however, sees nothing wrong with treating her daughter to this fairy tale experience. 

Stephanie Woodrow said: "She loves it. All her friends of her age are doing the same thing. They all want to feel like a princess. You don't want to take that away from them. If you can encourage it, I definitely do."

Nadia Woodrow plans to be one of the millions expected to watch on television as Kate Middleton becomes a real princess when she marries her prince charming. But for now, at the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, it's this five-year-old's turn to live out her fantasy of being Cinderella. 

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