The story begins by telling the reader about a prince who wanted to marry a real princess. He dated around--a lot -- with women all over the world, but always found something wrong with each of them. Do you know someone like that? Unable to find the right girl, he returns home from his travels feeling sad.
On the night of a bad storm, a princess knocked on the city gate. She was a hot mess! The poor girl was drenched, but she claimed to be a real princess.
The old queen was not convinced. She decided to test the princess. The queen ''went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.'' (Eider-down is soft duck feathers.)
The next morning, the queen asks how the princess slept. The girl complains that she hardly slept at all. The princess explained, ''I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body.''
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