Charles Perrault

“ Then they would put on their golden crowns
and sit side by side on their thrones, while lords and ladies and ambassadors from other lands came to pay them homage, and they had to smile with their lips for the sake of politeness, but there was no joy in their hearts, And that is one of the greatest disadvantages of being a King or a Queen, that one has always to hide one’s feelings. ”

“ Everything else that the heart could wish for was theirs. They were rich they lived in a wonderful palace full of the costliest treasures; their kingdom was at peace, and their people were prosperous. Yet none of these things contented them, because they wanted a little child of their own to love and to care for, and though they had been married several years, no child had come to them,
Every day the King would look at the Queen and say: “Ah, if we only had a little child,” and the Queen would look at the King and sigh, and they were both very miserable about it. ”