It only was sarcasm if you dont feel like a princess.
On the other hand making a girl feel, if not like a princess , but at least very special is kind of a qualty of mine.
I actually don't understand why and how the saying "feel like a princess" came from.
It's supposed to imply you feel special or are made to feel special.
But............
Does this saying really make sense in any way ??
Going back to the time princesses and such were the story of legends we go back to the themes of the Romanticism in the 18th century.
THemes in which the middle ages were made to be more appealing then they actually were. The stories were made by men mostly for men with chivalrious knights.
The women in question, be it a princess or not, was mostly just a 2nd rate person and more often then not a damsel in distress.
She was married off to the one who would give her father political power or inadvertently married the one who would rescue her. Own choice in love was hardly an option at all.
Furthermore....what was the position of women, if at all, during those times ??
THe women, being a women, had virtually no rights of her own. She wasn't allowed to be rape not on the foundation of the trauma this would cause to her but more so on the implications this would have for the family honour. It would be "inconvenient" for them.
They also had no voting power nor say in any matter.
Once a princess was married to her prince she had to do what he said. She was an instinutionalized thing. Had to sleep with the prince when he wanted and was barely allowed outside of the castle premises. More often then not locked up in her rooms with her maids around her. These maids were also not chosen by herself in the multitude of times so maintaining friendships would also be hard.
Concluding I think being "like a princess" would actually be a horrible thing.