'Oh terribly bad!' said the prince. 'I have hardly closed my eyes the whole night! Heaven knows what was in the bed. I seemed to be lying upon some hard thing, and my whole body is black and blue this morning. It is terrible!'
They saw at once that he must be a real prince when he had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. Nobody but a real prince could have such a delicate skin.
Now this is a true story.
And here is the pea to prove it....