A queen wants her son to marry a beautiful, delicate, and graceful princess. The prince looks everywhere but can't find her. One stormy night, a young woman knocks on the door looking for shelter and the prince is instantly in love. His mother scoffs that she's no princess, and to prove her point, places an uncooked pea under twenty plush mattresses, telling her son that only a real princess would notice it. The next morning the young woman is exhausted—she felt like she'd been sleeping on a