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Jump to: navigation, search  The Princess Mayblossom is a French
literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy in 1697.  Andrew
Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book.   illustration from The
Red Fairy Book, 1890.  A king and queen had lost all their
children, and were most anxious about a daughter newly born to
them. The queen dismissed a hideous woman who put herself forth
as a nurse, but every woman she hired was instantly killed. The
king realized that the ugly woman was the Fairy Carabosse, who
had hated him since he played a prank on her as a child. They
tried to christen their daughter in secret, but Carabosse cursed
her to be miserable her first twenty years. The last fairy
godmother could only promise that her life would be long and
happy after those twenty years. The eldest fairy advised that
the princess be kept in a tower to minimize the harm.  When her
twentieth year had nearly come, the king and queen sent her
portrait about to prin