King Thrushbeard

What a lovely tale! This short story is about a spoiled and conceited princess. No suitor is good enough for her. Her father, the King, marries her off to a grubby fiddler. Then the princess lives in poverty and is forced to work, and gets mocked... I don't want to give the ending away but I really......more

Cute story with a full-of-herself princess who rejects all her suitors then ends up with a penniless fiddler and must work for a living. An enjoyable little fairy-tale with a lesson to be learned in the end.......more

This was a lovely little read about a proud and haughty princess who finds wrong with every possible suitor and can't help making fun of them until one day, her father, the King marries her to a penniless travelling fiddler who takes her to his home and makes her do all the work which cures her of h......more