Sure, they're privileged, eat the finest foods, wear the chicest gowns, can order the best entertainments, and have servants attend to their every need. They get to marry princes, become queens and occupy prime real estate. Not bad, if you like that sort of thing.
Not me. Those gowns are usually huge, probably heavy, and can't be easy to move in. The dances are lame, and see above about dresses. The decorum and expectations are suffocating. They have servants and subjects and yes men, but likely no real friends.
The princes? Very limited dating pool. In real life, not particularly handsome overall. And some of the time, an arranged marriage. Most don't even get to become king -- that would be their, usually, oldest brother -- so no queenship for you. And don't get me started on the internarrying in such a small pool of acceptable royal matches. Even if you do get to be queen, you'll usually come second to the King. See Mary, queen of Scots to King Francis in Reign.
The castles? Drafty with all the open holes for windows. Dark and dank with secret passageways where assasins may hide. Servants lurking everywhere who will see and overhear everything.
You get to be the helpless target kidnapped for ransom. A pawn for political intrigue. The damsel in distress in a restrictive dress. Unless...
You're the exception. Elsa with magical powers in Frozen. Merida disobeying parents to teach herself useful skills in Brave. Belle of Beauty and the Beast didn't sit idle but filled herself with knowledge which is, after all, power. Fairy princesses with inherent magic. Amazon queens like Gabrielle of Xena: Warrior Princess where they have no men anyway.
Xena herself, a warrior princess. This woman has killed demons and monsters and gods. No one can tell her what to do, how to behave, who to marry. If anything, I'd prefer to be a warrior princess. But then there'd be plenty of people wanting to kill you... so maybe not.
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