Princess Rumors

Princess Rumors
March 26th, 2008

I can’t believe that my client called me one time at work to ask me a very personal question… “If the rumor was true?” What rumor? “My entire team has been talking about you after you left.” Talking about me about what? ‘That you were a Philippine Princess and what are you doing working here in America?” Where did you hear that? “It was some rumor that’s going around and we wanted to know if it was true…”

This is my top client from San Antonio that I met with and entertained, calling me at work one day to confirm if I was a “Philippine Princess”??? I laughed out so loud (like boisterously evil-laugh-like) as I don’t know what to say….. What possible Philippine tribe could I be a Princess of?

Should I tell her the truth? How did she find out? Who told her? Who would have thought that? Did I wear my tiara in my presentation? Did she read my princess diaries instead of my proposals? For sure, I know I was wearing my power suit and killer stilettos in our meetings…. Did I get carried away and sung “A Whole New World”???

To everybody who knew me, you know this rumor is not true. My closest friends in Park City knew that I have moved on a long way since I got married here…. I can cook now, I can vacuum, I can do my laundry, and I can drive. In fact, I learned to paint all the rooms in my house!! So who’s the Princess now?

So to appease my client, I told her I am not a Princess…. But she was not satisfied. She asked me if I have some royal blood or from a royal family?

OK, this is getting really funny now. Is she on drugs or something? Or am I just hallucinating? I have to tell her something, so this is my story.

I am not a Princess. And I don’t have a royal blood and I didn’t come from some royalty or kingdom. But I was a former beauty queen. “Like Miss Philippines?” I said yes when I was 50 lbs lighter, and that was a long, long time ago… We just laughed it off and she was happy now. This conversation has lead to 15 more re-bookings of group meetings for me from her for 2008.

To my surprise, a couple of people in my office thought that, too, that I came from some royalty… ha-ha-ha!! Was I that prim and proper at work? Do I act like Julie Andrews?
One of my friends at work told me that I should have told this story instead (in case I get asked again)… “that I was a former Moriones Princess but I was dethroned from my kingdom when I eloped with my non-royalty lover, and now lived happily ever after in America.”