This year’s Daffodil Princesses came to Olympia to promote the Daffodil festival and share their ambitions for the future. Accomplished young women from high schools throughout Pierce County represent the festival as members of the Royal Court.   The Daffodil Festival traces its origins to the city of Sumner in April of 1926, where a garden party attended by civic leaders from 125 Western Washington towns celebrated the beauty of the varied daffodils. The festival has become an honored tradition in Pierce County, and second only to the State Fair in popularity.

Senator Fortunato had the honor of meeting several of the Daffodil Princesses who stopped by Olympia to promote the festival to legislators.