The series theme song, "Someday My Prince Will Come" (from Disney's animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), was performed by The Roches.

The series chronicles the lives of three female roommates in New York City, each with a different background and upbringing, thus the series' title: Tracy Dillon (Julie Hagerty), a ditzy English teacher who dumps her fiancé after learning about his previous two marriages; Tracy's longtime best friend Melissa Kirshner (Fran Drescher), an outspoken Jewish-American who sells cosmetics at a department store; and Georgina "Georgy" de La Rue (Twiggy), a naive, recently widowed English princess (and whose previous occupation was that of a showgirl) who arrives in the U.S. to challenge her late husband's contested will.

In an effort to downplay the behind-the-scenes turmoil on Princesses, CBS execs initially touted the series as "promising" to advertisers.

However, upon its premiere, Princesses received negative reviews and placed last in the Nielsen ratings for its timeslot.

[1][2] While producers were planning to create a storyline to write out and replace Hagerty's character, CBS cancelled the series and pulled it from the air.