Who slept on a pea?

Also to know is, what Princess slept on a pea?

"The Princess and the Pea" (Danish: "Prinsessen paa Ærten"; literal translation: "The Princess on the Pea") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal identity is established by a test of her sensitivity.

One may also ask, what is the story behind the princess and the pea? “The Princess and the Pea” A story by Hans Christian Andersen. A prince insists on marrying a real princess. When a woman comes to his door maintaining that she is a real princess, the prince's mother tests her by burying a pea under a huge stack of mattresses and then ordering the woman to sleep on the mattresses.

Keeping this in consideration, is the princess and the pea a real story?

So the prince took her for his wife, because now he knew that he had a real princess. And the pea was put in the art gallery where it can still be seen, unless someone has taken it. Now see, that was a real story! Source: Hans Christian Andersen, Prinsessen på ærten (1835).

Who wrote the princess and the pea?

Hans Christian Andersen