" Part of him was astonished. An amira. A princess. His tutor a few years back had been a widely-traveled man, one who’d been to the Sudan and even seen the Egyptian pyramids. He’d said they called the princes over there amirs. At the time, Richard had asked sullenly, “Whenever would I need to know such a thing?” And his tutor had said, “Prince Richard, perhaps one day an amira — that would be a princess — will walk right into your life. "

― Rosetta Bloom , The Princess, the Pea and the Night of Passion (Passion-Filled Fairy Tales #1)