"The Princess and the Pea" (Danish: Prinsessen paa Ærten, lit. 'The Princess on the Pea')[1] is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who is tested to become wife to a lonely prince. The tale was first published with three others by Andersen in a cheap booklet on 8 May 1835 in Copenhagen by C. A. Reitzel. The tale is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as ATU 704, "The Princess and the Pea".[2]