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Denmark: Royal Winks & Fairy Tales
I was bidden to Denmark to celebrate the 199th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, the eminent literary socialite and world-renowned author of 156 children’s stories. The Ugly Duckling. The Little Mermaid. The Emperor’s New Clothes. The Princess and the Pea. Thumbelina. His mother was a washerwoman who drank too much; his father, a dirt poor […]