The princess and the pea
There was a Prince. He wanted to marry a Princess but she had to be a real princess. He travelled all over the word to find one, but he hadn’t found one yet. So he came home again and was sad.
One evening, there was a terrible storm with thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly, someone knocked the door, and the old King went to open it.
A girl was standing out there in front of the gate. The water ran down from her hair and clothes. She looked pathetic. But she said that she was a real princess.
The old Queen let her in. She let her sleep on a bed which she had taken twenty mattresses and laid them on a pea.
Next morning, the Queen asked her: “How did you sleep?”
“Oh, very badly!” she said. “I was lying on something hard, so that I couldn’t sleep. My back was still hurt. It was horrible!”
Then they knew that she was a real princess because she could feel the pea right through the twenty mattresses. Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.
So the Prince married her because she was a real princess. They lived happily ever after.
QUESTION:
1) Who did the prince want to marry?
2) Why was the prince sad?
3) Who came to the castle on a night with thunder, lightning and heavy rain?
4) How did the Queen check the girl?
5) Why did they know that the girl was a real princess?
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