Princess power

Glass slippers – who needs them? Far better to go to the ball in a snazzy pair of self-designed trainers that you then turn into a successful business. As for waiting around for a handsome prince, surely it’s preferable to liberate yourself, then rent out your castle? That’s the message from Fairer Tales: Princesses Doing It for Themselves, a re-imagining of Cinderella, Rapunzel and Sleeping

Beauty published by HSBC, in which the heroines use their own acumen to realise their happilyever-afters. Copies are to be distributed to primary schools across the land in a bid to build female financial confidence. We look forward to Snow

White (she sets up a cleaning company staffed by seven dwarves), Hansel and Gretel (award-winning gingerbread houses) and The Little Match Girl

(she moves into woodburners).