The young king arrived where he met other Kings, Princes, Duke, Marquis, Earl, Baron lined in great hall and the Princess Orchid was walking up& down the rows like a general inspecting the troops!
The young king listened at the comments being made at the other suitors “Hooch!” looks at his skinny legs she laughed
As she passed one very taught Prince “haha ha looks like frog!”
She giggled, as looked downed at the hard working Duke.
Had it not been insulting it would have been funny
At last she came to young king who was very charming in every way. Still there was something about his face that reminded her of bright-eyed bird. I’ll call you king thrush beard she chuckled. “ I couldn’t possibly marry someone who is so bird brained “Ha ha ha.”
The young king rejected but not dejected, went home, on his way home his subjects /kingdom had heard of what happened and started calling him king Thrushbeard, was this king, melancholy? Lamenting? Chop a few heads off? did he go see a shrink! No this by the way is a king hence a man a vision. What king wants is what king gets. A truly impudent man doesn’t give damn about other people and never tries to please them. He sent spies to the Princesses castle & bided his time.
In the mean time the princess father growing vary and angry “you will marry the first beggar who come to the palace gates!” he said.
The young King Thrush-beard heard of this and new the old king to be a man of his word & decided to create a new ‘persona‘
“Change your physical image,” his advisors said, ‘go for star –tiling mysteries and elusive….’
A few days later, strolling player calling himself Dandy sat below the old king’s gates and sang a haunting melody. The old king at once asked for him to be bought to the castle.
“Young man your singing has bought a great reward,” he said
“Here is my daughter. She shall be your wife.”
And that is exactly what happened…..
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