Writing club assignement - An annoying habit

An Annoying habit

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful Princess.   Her hair was spun of gold and curled gently into ringlets, her complexion of peaches and cream and her emerald green eyes seemed to brighten the world.   Her parents the King and Queen of the land of Fortune were desperate to see her married as having brought up and already wedded  their 5 other daughters   -   she was the last one to leave the nest.

  They were eager to start their own life again - travel and see the world as they were still young at heart and soul having married when they were very young.   
 So the King and Queen of the land of Fortune searched high and low among their holdings for a suitor - interviewed and invited  suitable candidats who came from far and wide to meet the beautiful Princess and eventually ask for her hand in mariage.   Many of them spoke to her, tried to bring her into conversation and enticed her with delicious things to eat and drink.   Asked her well thought out questions - drew her into fascinating debates and complimented generously upon her fair self - tempted her into real discussions about her favorite dogs and again her horses.    - It wasn’t as if their conversation was boring,  their well  prepared questions and stories were interesting enough,  she just remained silent.   They went away disappointed that she had not  revealed what should have been a honey silk voice to go with the beautifulness of herself.

A sovereign brought golden frogs from his country, a Prince from Mongolia spices from far away,  another well born young man exotic silks from Morocco - an Egyptian of noble birth some ancient coins and a Russian Csar his sapphires from the transvaal.     Still the Princess didn’t speak.      She remained silent just nodding her head with a slight smile on her enticingly cupid shaped lips.     Although she looked divine, dressed beautifully and her perfume sent most pretendents into a swoon - she refused to open her mouth.   One by one the young men turned away unable to bear not hearing  her voice and not wanting to take the risk of marrying her and have a lifetime of silence.

 The King and Queen of the land of Fortune looked on approvingly at their last daughter as she did as she was told and kept her mouth shut at all times.    They continued to present suitable young men to the palace.  They had made a bargain with their daughter that she should not utter a word and remain silent at all times and only when she was married would they permit her to converse.  
 The trouble was that the lovely princess had a terrible annoying habit that would have frightened off any man if he ever heard her speak before mariage.  

Every time she opened her mouth, her tongue, which was  twice the normal size and deformed into a knot got jumbled up with her crooked front teeth, which were  terribly pointy and spiky and so when she spoke every other word came out as a clucking sound like a chicken.  (Cluck How cluck do cluck you do cluck …. )
the sound came out of her exquisite mouth and sounded like a mother hen calling her chicks ……So she didn’t speak but she “clucked”.    This annoying unfortunateness had been with her all her childhood and was so irritating and exasperating to her immediate family that all of them had worn earplugs whenever she was in a room so irksome was the noise.  So as it was now the time for her to find a husband, the King and Queen of the land of Fortune had forbade her to speak so as not to put off any future lover

Imagine her clucking her way through official receptions, squawking to heads of state, attending state balls, paying visits to hospitals and speaking at official functions not speaking but cluckety clucking like a swarm of old hens. 

One day a young man presented himself to the court.  He shook hands with the King and bowed deeply to the Queen but did not utter a sound. The King and Queen exchanged complicit  glances ….maybe this could be the one.    A speechless Prince.     The appealing Princess curtseyed and met the handsome Princes admiring gaze.  They observed each other and very gently took each others hands and danced the night away.    Never a word was spoken.
On their wedding night the Prince and Princess decided that at last they would speak to each other.
She clucked like a chicken and he barked like a fox and they started to chase each other around their honeymoon suite - having the most wonderful time but upsetting the hotel staff considerably who thought there was a farmyard installed in their expensive honeymoon suite.
The couple had 6 children who all grew up to all have very annoying habits -moooooo ….quack quack    squeak queak etc. etc.