The princess and the pea

The princess and the pea story was so much deeper and more complicated than it appeared to an outsider.

The poor princess was only trying to get a good night's sleep, but the whole kingdom seemed to be conspiring against her.

First of all, she was presented with a plethora of tasty treats just before bedtime and having no will power at all, consumed most of them, leaving her stuffed and hot.

Then she heard the weather was going to be nice and cool, so she flung open the castle windows, turned off the fluttering flamingos above her bed and climbed in.

Only to discover that the castle stones were keeping in the heat, the crazy flamingos were chattering away since they had nothing else to do and there was something hard underneath all her mattresses!

After searching through them all she ate the pea she discovered (she was a truly voracious princess) but it turned out that it was the slats in her bed that were keeping her awake. So she had a bed board placed over these, covered it up with ten thousand mattresses and tried again.

And again, and again, and again. . .