At this, they all saw at once that here, at last, was a real Princess. After all, she had felt a single pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. Nobody but a real Princess could have so delicate a sense of feeling.
And so the Prince took her gladly as his wife, certain that at last he had found a real Princess. And as for the pea, it was taken and put into a museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
And this, you may depend upon it, is a true story.
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