There was once a prince who wanted to be a princess for himself, but had to be a real princess. So he traveled throughout the world to find one, but every time something was wrong: there were a lot of princesses, but he could never be certain that they were real princesses, because something went wrong. So he returned home and was very sad, because he wanted to find the heart of a true princess.
One evening there was a foul weather, lightning flashed and thunder, the rain pouring down, how awful! They knocked on the door of the city and the old king went to open it. There was a princess out there. But as he was tanned with the rain and then bad weather! Water ran down her hair and clothes and shoes from the tip came in and went out at the heels, and yet claimed to be a real princess. "Now we'll find out," thought the old queen, but she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the blankets and put a pea on the bottom of the bed, which then put twenty mattresses and twenty feather dusters. There had to spend the night the princess. The next morning they asked her how she slept. "Oh, terribly wrong," said the princess, "I hardly slept all night. God only knows what was in bed, but I was lying on something hard, and now they are all a bruise. It's terrible!" So they could see that was a real princess, because through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather dusters had felt the pea. No one could be so sensitive if not a real princess. The prince took her hand in marriage, because now he knew he had found a real princess and the pea was put into the art gallery, where even today you can see, if no one has taken.
Mind you, this is a true story!
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