Once a King and a Queen had three children - two sons and a daughter.
They called their daughter Rosette during a lavish christening ceremony.
During the christening of the beautiful little daughter, the Queen called all the fairies to be present there.
After it was over, the fairies said nothing and just looked to walk away from there.
However, the Queen would not let it go easily.
She insisted that the fairies tell her whether anything bad was going to happen to the princess and that was the reason that the fairies would not tell her anything about the princess.
The fairies looked sad and did not want to answer.
However, the Queen finally managed to persuade the fairies otherwise.
Finally, the fairies told the Queen that there was a chance that the princess would bring great misfortune to her brothers. The fairies were afraid that Princess Rosette could even lead to their death of her brothers.
Once the Queen heard this, she was very sad.
The king noticed it and studied her. “What is bothering you?”
The Queen shrugged and could not bring herself to tell the truth to the king.
She first lied to the king that she had burnt all the flax that she had because she had been sitting too close to the fire.
The king in an attempt to cheer the Queen brought her plenty of flax that the Queen could spin for a hundred years.
However, the Queen was still unhappy and when the king again asked for the reason, the Queen lied again that she had dropped one of her green satin slippers into the water.
The king had many slippers made for the Queen with all the shoemakers in his kingdom.
However, all this still did not cheer the Queen.
Finally, when the king asked the Queen for the third time, the Queen again lied that she had swallowed her wedding ring by mistake while she had been eating the porridge because the ring had fallen into the porridge.
The king, however, knew that the Queen was lying because he was the one who had the ring with him.
The queen now had no choice and finally told the king what the fairies had told her about Rosette's future.
Adapted from Andrew Lang’s Fairy Tales
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