Edward German (1862-1936) and Basil Hood (1864-1917) were famous British composers and lyricists. German wrote and played music as a child, eventually becoming a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music. Hood started in the British Army, where he initially wrote plays as a hobby. Both men created the bulk of their work during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hood wrote Gentleman Joe, the Hansom Cabbie (1895), The French Maid (1896), and Little Hans Andersen (1903). German made a name for himself with The Two Poets (1886), The Rival Poets (1901) and Tom Jones (1907).

A mischievous fairy stokes the flames of jealousy between a fairy prince and the object of his desire. A Princess of Kensington, by Edward German and Basil Hood, centers a lover's quarrel pitting supernatural creatures against humans. The troublemaking Puck uses lies and deceit to quell a prince's greatest fear.