The nurse dressed her daughter in the prettiest dresses available in the ship. However the nurse’s daughter was not as pretty as Rosette. Further the nurse’s daughter also found all the dresses very cumbersome and she was very grumpy all throughout.
When the ship reached the island of the King of Peacocks, the King of Peacocks had sent guards to bring the princess to his palace. However the nurse’s daughter misbehaved with the guards.
The annoyed guards of the King of Peacocks saw her and realized that not only was the princess ugly, she was also wicked.
The King of the Peacock came to the ship himself and he saw that his guards were right and Rosette was very ugly. The King of Peacock had the Princess and the nurse imprisoned in a tower and the King of Peacock also decided to behead the two princes who had lied about their sister’s beauty.
When the two princes learnt about the sentence that was to be executed they pleaded before the King of Peacocks who grudgingly allowed them seven days to prove their innocence.
Meanwhile back to Princess it so happened that she was asleep when the nurse and the boatman had thrown her into the sea so she did not know how she had ended up in the sea in her mattress and Frisk beside her.
She somehow felt that the King of Peacocks did not want to marry her any more and that was the reason that all this had happened to her.
Princess Rosette was sad and did not know what to do but the mattress floated in the sea and finally took her to the island of the King of Peacock.
On the shore of the island was an old man who lived all alone in a cottage. He heard Frisk’s barking and came out to investigate and found the beautiful Princess Rosette and saved her from the sea.
Adapted from Andrew Lang’s Fairy Tales
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