King Thrushbeard
Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff
Little Ears Media
4.4 • 932 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
When a haughty princess finds fault with every suitor who arrives, especially King Thrushbeard, her father vows that the next man to enter the gates of palace will be her husband. So, when a musician enters the gates, the princess agrees to marry him and finds herself keeping house and selling baskets in the market. But what she doesn’t know is, the musician is not exactly who he says he is. Will the princess learn a humbling lesson?
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| 1:18.1 | Good evening, children. It's Granny Maduff, ready with a story. So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin. |
| 1:29.8 | Once upon a time there lived a king who had a daughter who was called Adeline. |
| 1:37.5 | While she was quite handsome, Adeline was pompous and snooty. |
| 1:43.8 | And when it came time for her to take husband, she thought |
| 1:47.3 | no suitor was good enough for her. So, she sent them away one after the other, and not without |
| 1:56.4 | insult. She would find fault with each one and pointed out in front of the whole court. |
| 2:03.6 | The king planned a great feast and invited all the young eligible men from his kingdom and beyond to come and make merry and to meet the princess in hopes she would fancy one of them enough to take as her husband. |
| 2:22.3 | Soon it was the night of the great party, and all the suitors arrived. |
| 2:29.3 | Kings, grand dukes, princes, earls, barons and gentry alike. |
| 2:40.6 | Each one Adeline was introduced to, she would slight. |
| 2:46.0 | So tall you are, tall and slim, quite like a giraffe, she said to one. |
| 2:53.7 | So short you are, like a peacock, she said to another. |
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