“The Jolly king is dead.” The messenger told the queen as soon as he got down his horse and found the queen in the palace.
The queen fell senseless and that was when there was great confusion and noise around the palace. The wicked king stormed the Jolly King’s palace to find the queen.
The maids in the palace hid the queen and the princess under the bed clothes and then the maids ran for their lives.
The wicked king found the queen and he dragged her to his own kingdom. There the wicked king wanted to have the queen and the princess killed.
One of the ministers of the wicked king felt sorry for the queen and the princess and wanted to save them. The minister carefully went to the king and had a simple suggestion. When the princess grew up, she would make a fine wife for the king’s son, but that was possible only when the king did not kill the queen and the princess now.
The wicked king liked this idea immediately. He had the queen and the princess imprisoned in the tall tower in the kingdom.
After that, the wicked king had a fairy who lived in the kingdom come to see the queen. The king wanted the fairy to look at the princess and determine whether the princess would be fortunate when she grew up and so would make a good wife for the prince.
The king first gave the fairy a feast and after that, the king took the fairy to look at the queen.
When the fairy saw the queen and the princess imprisoned in the tower, the fairy felt sorry for them and she was determined to help them.
The fairy told the queen that she would help the queen and the princess, but before the fairy could say anything else, the king interrupted their conversation.
Adapted from the Fairy Tales written by Countess d’Aulnoy
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