As the breeze whipped the snow in little maelstroms of white, I stopped halfway and tilted my face to the cloudless, sapphire-blue sky.

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The new line combined classic princesses like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty with newer characters like Ariel from The Little Mermaid.

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There are only so many times any little girl can re-enact the worlds of Belle, Ariel, Cinderella and Snow White.

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Though metropolises like New York may be used to the white stuff, London tends to get little more than a dusting of snow on most winters, which made the 10.0 inches or so of snowfall across the capital all the more startling on Monday.

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