# The Tin Princess > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Tin_Princess > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Tin_Princess.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Princess > Source revision: 1354743018 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1994 novel by Philip Pullman This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Please help improve this article by citing more sources. Find sources: "The Tin Princess" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2015) The Tin Princess First edition Author Philip Pullman Language English Series Sally Lockhart series Genre Juvenile Fiction/ Action & Adventure Publisher Knopf Publication date March 19, 1994 Publication place United Kingdom Pages 290 ISBN 0-679-84757-X OCLC 59317463 Preceded by The Tiger in the Well ***The Tin Princess*** ([1994](/source/1994_in_literature)) is a young adult novel by the [English](/source/English_people) author [Philip Pullman](/source/Philip_Pullman), part of the [Sally Lockhart](/source/Sally_Lockhart) series.[1] ## Plot introduction Sixteen-year-old Becky is about to have her life changed. A dramatic explosion is only the start of her incredible adventure. As tutor to the cockney Princess ([Adelaide](/source/Sally_Lockhart#Adelaide_Bevan) of *[The Ruby in the Smoke](/source/The_Ruby_in_the_Smoke)*, whose fortunes have greatly changed) of Razkavia, a tiny kingdom in Europe, she is plunged into a turmoil of murder and intrigue. ## Characters **Rebecca 'Becky' Winter** is the first character introduced in the book. She is hired as a language tutor for Adelaide Bevan, but quickly becomes her close friend and interpreter when she accompanies Adelaide to Razkavia. She is born in Razkavia, but has lived in England since she was three with her mother and grandmother, after her father was arrested and later died in prison in Razkavia. Despite having lived in England most of her life, she considers herself a Razkavian citizen. **Adelaide Bevan** (later **Princess Adelaide of Razkavia** and **Queen Adelaide of Razkavia**) is at the center of the story. She got secretly married to Prince Rudolf of Razkavia. After the death of the old king and then her husband, she becomes the reigning queen of Razkavia. **Prince Rudolf of Razkavia** (briefly **King Rudolf of Razkavia**) is married to Adelaide Bevan. After the death of his older brother William, he becomes crown prince of Razkavia and returns there with Adelaide, Becky and Jim Taylor. After his father's death, Rudolf gets killed during his own coronation. **Jim Taylor** is a young man who offers Prince Rudolf his services as a private detective to protect him from assassination attempts. Later, he follows Rudolf to Razkavia and becomes his and Adelaide's close advisor, trying to uncover a conspiracy which threatens to dethrone the queen. ## Inspiration The fictional setting was inspired by other [Ruritanian romances](/source/Ruritanian_romance) [2] ## TV adaptation This book was expected to be made into a [TV movie](/source/TV_Film) by the [BBC](/source/BBC) to be aired in December 2009 on [BBC1](/source/BBC1). However, as of April 5, 2009, production on *The Tiger in the Well* (the previous book in the series) had not begun, and so the future of the two remaining adaptations remains unknown. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Pullman, Philip (1994). [*The Tin Princess*](https://libcat.simmons.edu/Record/b1405291). Sally Lockhart Mystery. New York: Knopf. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-679-84757-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-679-84757-1). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Pullman, Philip (2018). "A Plausible Possible: Razkavia Realized". In [Lewis-Jones, Huw](/source/Huw_Lewis-Jones) (ed.). *The Writer's Map*. Chicago: [University of Chicago Press](/source/University_of_Chicago_Press). p. 9-13. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-226-59663-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-226-59663-1). v t e Works by Philip Pullman Sally Lockhart The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) The Shadow in the North (1986) The Tiger in the Well (1990) The Tin Princess (1994) His Dark Materials Original novels Northern Lights (1995) The Subtle Knife (1997) The Amber Spyglass (2000) Companion books Lyra's Oxford (2003) Once Upon a Time in the North (2008) Serpentine (2020) The Book of Dust La Belle Sauvage (2017) The Secret Commonwealth (2019) The Rose Field (2025) Other The Haunted Storm (1972) Galatea (1978) Count Karlstein (1982) How to be Cool (1987) The Broken Bridge (1990) The Butterfly Tattoo (1992) The Firework-Maker's Daughter (1995) Clockwork (1996) I Was a Rat! or, The Scarlet Slippers (1999) The Scarecrow and his Servant (2004) The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2010) Authority control databases Open Library This article about a young adult novel of the 1990s is a stub. 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