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Short Story About Beauty

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Overview

This is a short story about beauty for children who like reading fairy tales and bedtime stories. This story will help children understand the meaning of true beauty. 

  • Read the amazing short story about a beautiful young girl.

  • The girl is trapped in a palace with a mean prince and takes a big step to set herself free.

Amazing Short Story About Beauty For Kids

Children, how do we know that a person is beautiful? Is it the beauty of his/her face or what is inside that count? The qualities and abilities of a person and their nature is what makes them truly beautiful, don’t you think? Here we have a short story about beauty for you. This story will change your perception of beauty and teach a very important lesson. So, let’s see what the story has in store for us.

Story About a Girl With a Beautiful Face 

In a kingdom, there lived a very girl who was albeit of humble origins but had the most beautiful face in the world. Many men and suitors fell for her beauty and professed their love to her, but she rejected them all. The girl wanted to get married to a prince and be the princess of a castle.


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The Girl with the Beautiful Face


So, she held out her heart, waiting for a handsome prince to fall in love with her. As fate would have it, the handsome prince soon came into her life. He proposed to marry her, and they tied the knot amidst all the people in the kingdom. She finally became a princess, and she was showered with gifts and presents from visitors.

The Reality Finally Sinks In 

The princess was very happy with the shine and shimmer of her newly married life. But when that excitement wore off, she realised the actual truth. The prince was only handsome from the outside. Her husband was a mean tyrant who would boast around about his wife’s beauty and would treat people like they were nothing.


When the princess confronted her husband, he shifted the blame to her and said that she was fool enough to marry him for his looks and riches. He also confessed that even he married the girl for her beauty. The princess remembered all the noble and kind-hearted suitors she had rejected because she wanted to marry the prince. She felt her whole life being destroyed. The princess tried to run away, but the prince locked her in one of the cells.

The Princess Makes a Friend 

As the princess was spending her days in the cell, her only respite was a guard who was nice to her and would entertain her. Pretty soon, the princess and the guard became very good friends. One day, the princess expressed her wish to run away and asked the guard to help.


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The Princess is Trapped


But the guard was loyal to the king and couldn’t do anything for her. But he had an idea that would help her escape. He said, “The prince is only with you for your beauty. If your face is disfigured, the prince would easily let you go.” The princess was sad that no one would want to be with her if her face was disfigured.


But the guard had fallen in love with the princess by then. He said he would always be with her because he fell in love with her inner beauty and kind heart. The princess to realised that she was in love with the guard. Together they made a large cut to her face and disfigured it. One look at the princess’s face and the prince was disgusted. He let the princess go, and she lived happily with the guard who loved her truly.

Summary of the Beautiful Story of a Girl 

Kids love to read short beautiful stories that have hidden moral lessons in them. This is another one of those stories that have an important message for the children. This story teaches us the importance of inner beauty. We must never look for a person’s physical beauty but for their heart and nature. This story will teach children we should always appreciate inner beauty.

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FAQs on Short Story About Beauty

1. Why did the girl reject all the other suitors?

The girl was waiting for a handsome young prince who would marry her and make her the princess of a kingdom. That is why she rejected all the other suitors.

2. What did the girl realise after marriage?

The girl realised that the prince she had married out of love was a tyrant who was hateful to others and only married her for her beauty.

3. What did the princess do to get her freedom from the prince?

The princess disfigured her face so she wouldn’t be beautiful anymore, and the prince would let her go.


Overview

This is a short story about beauty for children who like reading fairy tales and bedtime stories. This story will help children understand the meaning of true beauty. 

  • Read the amazing short story about a beautiful young girl.

  • The girl is trapped in a palace with a mean prince and takes a big step to set herself free.