Princess and the Pea Summary

          A Prince decided he wanted a real Princess to marry. He traveled around the world but did not find a real Princess to marry.

            One stormy night, a girl knocked at the door of the castle. She came into the castle out of the rain and told the Queen and the Prince that she was a princess. The Queen prepared a special bed of twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdown beds. The Queen put a hard pea under all of the mattresses to test whether the girl was really a Princess.

            The next morning the girl woke up all black and blue from a very poor sleep. She told the Queen and the Prince that she had hardly slept at all. The Prince and the Queen knew that the girl was a real Princess. The Prince and Princess were married.