But you made her much more. You made her a thoroughly modern woman, sexually adventurous, uninhibited, a hunter. That's not the storybook princess I knew when I was a child. And your readers are going to believe they've recognised her. Think about it.
Princesses live in fairy tales.
Even when they try to live in real life, the public pushes them into a fairy tale. That was Diana's problem, of course. Now I wrote a fairy tale for adults to read, and its fairy tale princess has an adult's passions. And she had to have them. She drives the story, and I needed the story to be driven by her so that I could experiment.