One stormy night, a princess arrives at the palace, claiming to be a real princess despite her disheveled appearance. Despite traveling the world, he cannot find one to his satisfaction.
Before paternity or DNA tests, and in an age when kings – fathers of princesses, in other words – found it as easy to get themselves killed in battle as to sire a daughter, it was probably a tricky business trying to ascertain your bride-to-be’s credentials in the blue-blood department. The Princess and the Pea is a classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a prince who wants to marry a real princess. One explanation is that the story is about the importance of a prince making a good marriage, to a woman of royal blood who came from good ‘stock’. There were Princesses aplenty, but how was he to know whether they were real Princesses There was something not quite right about them all. A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess. So he traveled through all the world to find her, and everywhere things went wrong. by Hans Christian Andersen, Barbara Lanza, and Kari James.
But what, then, might the true meaning of the tale be? The Princess and the Pea Story for Children Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Socratica Kids 117K subscribers Subscribe 476K views 10 years ago The Princess and the Pea is a classic. The Princess on the Pea Once there was a Prince who wanted to marry a Princess. A story that goes back to India almost a thousand years ago (and that’s only the earliest one we know about: many fairy tales have the ring of oral culture about them, and oral literature is notoriously good at getting itself lost down the centuries) surely has more importance than warnings about maintaining a tidy valance or laughter about how the royals are a bunch of pernickety wusses farther removed from the sufferings of ordinary people than a Martian holidaying on Pluto.
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