But this he knew: She must be a real princess. He traveled around the world to find someone like himself, a proper princess to share his life. There was once a prince, a lonely prince. 1835.The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen retold by XineAnn The fairy tale The Princess on the Pea was first published on Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. There it’s still to be seen, unless somebody has taken it. So the Prince made haste to marry her, because he knew he had found a real Princess.Īs for the pea, they put it in the museum. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate. They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds.
I lay on something so hard that I’m black and blue all over. In the morning they asked her, “Did you sleep well?” Up on top of all these the Princess was to spend the night. Then she took twenty eiderdown feather beds and piled them on the mattresses. Then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on the pea. Without saying a word about it she went to the bedchamber, stripped back the bedclothes, and put just one pea in the bottom of the bed. “We’ll soon find that out,” the old Queen thought to herself. Water streamed from her hair down her clothes into her shoes, and ran out at the heels. Who should be standing outside but a Princess, and what a sight she was in all that rain and wind. It was really frightful! In the midst of it all came a knocking at the town gate. So he came home again and was unhappy, because he did so want to have a real Princess. There were Princesses aplenty, but how was he to know whether they were real Princesses? There was something not quite right about them all. So he traveled through all the world to find her, and everywhere things went wrong. Once there was a Prince who wanted to marry a Princess.
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