Fairytale character getting ready to welcome new church cleaner (6,8)

I believe the answer is:

prince charming

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'fairytale character' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'getting ready to welcome new church cleaner' is the wordplay.
'getting ready' becomes 'priming' (priming is a kind of getting ready).
'to welcome' means one lot of letters goes inside another (in sense of 'inviting in').
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'church' becomes 'CE' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'cleaner' becomes 'char' (charwoman is a type of cleaner).
'n'+'ce'+'char'='ncechar'
'priming' going around 'ncechar' is 'PRINCE CHARMING'.

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(Another definition for prince charming that I've seen is " Dishy bloke".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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