Hmm... The art of the old series was actually better if you ask me. The artist of this new version can draw handsome men, but I find the some of the girls lacking. The princess, for example, looks like a crossdressing man, and I don't mean a man with feminine features who could pull it off like Hideyoshi, but rather a man with manly enough features. The original heroine of the books looks kind of androgynous. She could be either a girl or a pretty boy. The servants, though, are cute enough, weirdly enough.
Unless the princess isn't supposed to be especially beautiful in the first place and thus it was all on purpose. The prince, however, is super handsome, so that would be strange. In the old manga there was nothing wrong about the princess's looks. Did the old manga get it wrong or this new one?