ATU 704 is a story first published by Hand Christian Anderson in 1835, and has numerous retellings. The story, also known as "How to Tell a True Princess," tells of a girl being tested by a queen to ...

But actually a fairy story doesn’t have to have fairies in it at all! They could be about a princess - or a prince for example. Fairy stories always start with the words 'Once upon a time'.

The tale tells a story of a fair-skinned princess named Snow White. After the princess’s mother died, her father remarried. The wicked stepmother, obsessed with being the fairest of all, often ...