VOGUE: These Days At Medieval Times, Queens Rule the Castles

 

Excerpt from Vogue:  It is by now news to very few people that the princess who lives in the world that you step into when you visit Medieval Times—the almost-35-year-old dinner theater known for chicken legs and jousting knights—has been promoted, or rather, coronated. Princess Catalina is now a queen. The made-up reason—spoiler alert: Her father dies—is less surprising, perhaps, than the real story: Guests of the show, and they are legion and very often repeat customers, wanted more women in stronger, more powerful roles. 

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“I always loved playing the princess,” says Schear, the New Jersey queen. “There were so many amazing things about it. The girls that would come in and look at you with these big eyes, and they would just walk in the doors—and they believe they are walking into a castle, they really, really do. All of it—the horses, the falcon in the show, the costumes—it’s the whole magical experience. But now with the queen, it’s just even more satisfying.” Read more