As a child in grade school, I remember a Danish fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen called "The Princess on the Pea" about a prince’s seemingly unsuccessful search for a princess. One stormy ...

It was a girl who claimed to be a real princess. The Queen thought to test this, and placed a pea on a bed frame, and put twenty mattresses on top, and then on top of that twenty eiderdown beds. The ...

His mother’s ridiculous test of worthiness involving a pea, and some magical help from ... and the role of Alana, the true princess who finally wins the prince’s heart will be played by ...

One stormy evening a woman who claims to be a real princess arrives at the royal family's gate. After a pea is placed under 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds—in a variety of cheerful fabrics ...