Prinzessin auf der Erbse, Princess and the Pea

                                                      This illustration came from:
Andersen, Hans Christian. The Snow Queen and Other Stories from Hans Andersen. Edmund Dulac, illustrator. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1911.


When  a princess gets older, a woman used to  be courted and to have a free choice , she usually cannot change her ways. She will complain.  Then she will find pea after pea and then another pea on which she has to bed herself: her self. And then, there is no amount of mattresses which will take the pain.
Nothing at all will help but to leave the bed and walk until she finds her lost heart underneath.


well, this is not a nice story, it is not nice in Grimm's story to decide this way that somebody is a princess, and it is even really bad to make your son marry a princess who has only the quality to feel pain from a pea.

"my" princess has more qualities, for sure.
she is a princess, in essence.

only a bit opinionated and always 

ready to give unwanted advice.

but then, i am not nice.

(on: "choosing from top right")