The double wedding of the two elder Pricesses was a grand affair, celebrated with pomp and ceremony, and the festivities lasted forty days and nights. The following day, the youngest Princess packed a few belongings in a small bag and crept out of the Palace, heading for the local spa, where the lad lived and worked.

She knocked on the door and was admitted.
Face-to-face with the lad, she asked;
'Will you marry me?'
'With all my heart, Princess, for I have long loved you'

The two lovers set off for a neighbouring country where they were not known and wed. The Princess gave her new husband enough money to buy the Spa and the young couple lived happily together in the attached house.

His wife being pregnant, the husband sought a maid to care for her, but the King was still angry with his headstrong daughter, and had forbidden anyone to attend the girl. Since mortal help was refused them, the husband decided to ask the Peris' for help. He spent a few nights at a small alter in the west wing of the Spa, pleading for their assistance.

Soon the Princess's time drew near. The night before her baby was born, three Peris appeared, each beautiful nymph-like women. 'We have come to assist you, my dear, 'said one.
The next night, the baby was born, a beautiful girl. In the morning the Peris' said to the parents: 'this child is also ours and we wish to bestow upon her our most precious gifts.'

The first hung a powerful talisman around the infant's neck, which had the power to preserve her from all ailments. The second gave her the gift of a beautiful smile 'each time she smiles an unfading rose will appear on her cheek'
and the third blessed her tears ' every tear shall become the finest pearl' they then added that the grass on which she walked would become beds of fragrant flowers and the water she bathed in would become liquid gold. They also gave the family a magnificent palace in which to live.

Seeing the gleaming new palace, the King sent for his daughter and her husband, wishing to make amends. He made the young husband a Vizier.

The oldest of the other princesses had long been jealous of her sibling's beauty and so when her time to give birth drew near, she went to the same alter and prayed to the Peris to help her too.

The night her daughter was born, they appeared to her, and assisted, but the girl was so plain that the Peris were not pleased with the baby. They bestowed lesser gifts :
the land on which she trod would become barren, her tears turn to poison, and each time she smiled her ears become those of a mule.

The years passed and the King died, and having been chosen by him, the former Spa~boy became the new King. His daughter became a lovely maiden, loved by all. When she was 17, a neighbouring Prince who had heard of her beauty and magical gifts came to woo the girl to be his bride. His father said he would agree to such a pairng but only if the prince brought him one of the unfading roses from the cheeks of the Princess in question.
Disguised as a dancing dervish, the young prince went to visit the country where the maiden lived. Loitering about the gates, he waited til he saw a beautiful girl walking in the grounds. Instantly, he began juggling and dancing for all he was worth. Seeing the handsome person, she watched with delight. At the end of his performance, she gave him one of the roses and he went back home to his father with his prize.
Immediately upon seeing the rose, the King sent his finest ambassadors to arrange terms with the neightbouring King so that the two young people might be wed.