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...
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Both these tales and the book cover were printed in Spain in this particular two tale book there is a series of books like this one of which contains The Ugly Duckling story which Hans Christian Anderson also wrote I believe. I got this one particular book as a gift from my Maternal grandmother who is now deceased she was in her late nineties when she passed. Hans Christian Anderson did have an alternate original title for this story he calls it "The Real Princess" not the The Princess and the Pea.
So "The Real Princess" begins here.
Once upon a time, there was a young Prince who decided to get married. "You must marry a real, genuine Princess," insisted his Mother the Queen. "She must be beautiful, clever, charming and kind. Nothing else will do!" And with that, she ordered the Prince's horse to be saddled and told him to ride off and start looking at once.
As there were no Princesses in his own kingdom, the Prince had to travel to every country in the world to look for one.
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He met lots of them on his journey, but not one was perfect. Some were too tall and some were much too small, others too fat and some too thin. Some were very old and some were just babies. The poor Prince was really disappointed. "I just can't seem to find a real, genuine Princess anywhere," he sighed. So he climbed up on his horse and began the long ride back his kingdom. When, at last, he returned home, he decided to give up the idea altogether.
One dark night there was a most terrible storm. The wind howled and rain fell by the bucketful. Great flashes of lightning lit up the sky, and and thunder shook the palace walls. In spite of all this noise, the King heard the tiniest knock on the Palace door.
"Now, who can be calling on a night like this?" snorted the Queen, for she was warm and comfortable and did not want to be disturbed. However, the kindly old King got up from his chair and went to open the door himself.
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