This is book is about to contain the best topic you've ever read. I will be taking up the task of putting out Charles Perrault's Stories published in 1697 such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty In The Woods and comparing them to the Disney Movie Car...
The Real Princess by Hans Christian Anderson is more commonly mistakenly known as The Princess and The Pea but that is not its original title my friends.
In the story version unlike the one from the Spanish Twin Tale Books the artist depicts the Princess as Brunette.
The Real Princess by Hans Christian Anderson.
There was once a Prince and he wanted a Princess, but she also had to be a real Princess. He traveled through the world to find one, but something always seemed to be wrong. Though many he met claimed to be true Princesses, he could never be sure this was true. At last he returned home and was very sad because he wanted a real Princess so badly. One evening a terrible storm came up. Lightning flashed in the sky and rain tore at the castle walls. It was a dark and fearful night. Then in the midst of the storm a knock came at the city gates. The old king himself went to open them. A princess stood outside, but the storm had left her in a terrible state. Water streamed from her hair and her clothes; it ran in at the toes of her shoes and out at the heels; but still she said she was a real princess. "Well, we shall soon discover if that is true," thought the old queen, but she said nothing. She went into the bedroom, took all the bedclothes off, and laid a pea on the bottom boards of the bed. Then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on top of the pea, and then she put twenty feather beds on top of the mattresses. This is where the princess was to spend the night. In the moming the queen, the king, and the prince came into the room and asked the princess how she had slept. "Oh, it was dreadful!" said the princess. "I hardly closed my eyes the whole night. I don't know what it could have been, but I was lying on something so hard that my whole body is black and blue."
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Then they saw at once that she must be a real Princess, for she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. Nobody but a real Princess would have such delicate skin.
So the Prince took her for a wife because now he knew he had at last found a real Princess. And as for the pea, that was put into a museum, where it may still be seen if no one has taken it. Now isn't this a real story?
I love both versions of this story but prefer this one the Mom in the Spanish version comes off kind of mean in a snobbish way.
Disney did an excellent parody reference of this tale in Sofia The First episode "The Emerald Key with a Princess similar in culture to Moana being debated about whether or not she's a real Princess." I have the most personal connections to this story myself my skin is extremely delicate and find myself uncomfortable on lots of things of all kinds of different materials. My parents tease me a little about this but it was the skin I was born with. My skin is so sensitive that I am allergic to bandaid adhesives if I have a bandaid onto long I get extremely itchy red rash skin that has occurred ever since I was a baby child.
