After receiving little formal education,[2] she briefly worked as a kitchen assistant in São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro before entering into the sex trade in these cities under the pseudonym Princesa (Princess).
[3] The book was re-published by Club degli Editori [it] and Marco Tropea Editore [it] and subsequently translated into Portuguese, Spanish, German and Greek.
The novel also inspired the song of the same name by Fabrizio De André (Prinçesa) in his final album Anime salve (1996) written with Ivano Fossati.
[9] For a short time, de Albuquerque was hired as a secretary in Sensibili alle foglie, but left her job "to go back to the sidewalk because that is my fun, my freedom, my victory".
[10] She also spent a very short period as a guest of the Comunità di San Benedetto al Porto at the Port of Genoa, directed by the streetwise priest Don Andrea Gallo.
[14][2] In 2001, the film Princesa was released at the cinema, directed by Henrique Goldman [wikidata] and based on the autobiographical book by de Albuquerque.