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(he wanted = il voulait – real = true)
It could be a princess or someone who is scared.
(can, could, could)
Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she had to be a real princess.
He travelled all around the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted.
There were many princesses, but it was difficult to know if they were real princesses – there was always something which was not quite right about them. So he came home again. He was sad because he wanted a real princess so badly.
One evening there was a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning and the rain poured down in torrents. Indeed it was a fearful night. (fearful = horrible)
In the middle of the storm, somebody knocked at the town gate, and the old King went to open it.
It was a princess who stood outside, but she was in a terrible state from the rain and the storm. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into her shoes and out at the heel,
but she said that she was a real princess.
‘Well, we’ll soon see if that is true,’ thought the old Queen, but she said nothing. She went into the bedroom, took all the bed clothes and laid a pea on the bottom of the bed.
Then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on top of the pea, and then twenty feather duvets on top of the mattresses. This was where the princess was to sleep that night.
In the morning they asked her how she had slept.
‘Oh terribly badly!’ said the princess. ‘I hardly closed my eyes all night. Heaven knows what was in the bed but I was lying on something hard, and my whole body is black and blue this morning. It is horrible!’
Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather duvets. Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.
The prince was sure that he had found a real princess, so he took her for his wife and they lived happily ever after.
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