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Bertie’s Double
The lovely Princess Beatrice has stayed true to her long lost prince Bertie for many a long day. But there was a time when she was seen walking in the Palace Gardens with another prince! Still worse, the Wicked Queen was determined to hold a Royal Wedding to boost the popularity ratings of the royal family. Bertie the Frog’s hopes of being turned back into a prince and marrying Beatrice were almost dashed into a million tiny pieces.
Read by Natasha. Duration 25 minutes.
It all started like this. Bertie was sitting on his lily leaf in the sun thinking that life as a frog wasn’t all that bad, when he saw Princess Beatrice walking in the palace garden with – another man !
Right away, he recognised the scoundrel as the smarmy Prince Boris. He liked to call himself Boris the Brave, and now Bertie heard his smarmy voice saying:
“And did you ever hear about the time I fought a seven-headed sea monster?”
“Er, no.” said Beatrice. “But I suspect that I’m going to now..”
Boris started to tell a story which Bertie was certain was untrue, because anyone who has really fought a sea monster would know that they have nine heads, not seven – unless somebody had already cut two of them off, which seemed a bit unlikely.
“Oh dear,” said Bertie. “If the lovely Beatrice marries Boris, I won’t have any reason to go on living. I might as well just hop off and die.”
His only comfort came from Colin the Carp who was swimming by.
“I shouldn’t worry,” said Colin. “Beatrice looks bored silly by that Prince Boris the Boaster.”
A couple of weeks went by, and one evening Bertie saw Beatrice walking in the garden with yet another man. This time it was Prince Freddie from the next door Kingdom. Freddie was terribly brainy at maths, and he had known Beatrice since they were both little. In fact, he used to help Beatrice with her maths homework. Bertie knew this, and he was just a tiny bit jealous that another prince had been her friend for so long.
“Freddie dear” said Beatrice.
“Ah-oh” thought Bertie. “She called him ‘dear’”. Beatrice went on:
“Do you see that frog sitting on a lily leaf? It’s very strange, but sometimes when I see his funny little face, I can’t help thinking of my long lost Prince Bertie”.
Freddie chuckled when he heard this: “Indeed my dear, “ he replied. “How right you are. Bertie always was a bit froggy in the face.”
Bertie was outraged when he heard this. “See here!” he called out. “When I was a prince. I didn’t look in the least bit like a frog.”
But Beatrice and Freddie couldn’t understand what he was saying. All they could hear was “croak! Croak!”, and Freddie remarked:
“Now look– you’ve hurt the little frog’s feelings because you said he looked like Prince Bertie!”
Beatrice smiled for a moment, and then said, “Oh Freddie, don’t be so cruel. You know how dear Prince Bertie is to my heart.” And they both ambled back to the palace.
For the next couple of weeks or so, Bertie didn’t see any princes stepping out into the gardens with Beatrice, and he stopped worrying about Freddie and Boris. But up in the Palace, the Wicked Queen was plotting a royal wedding for her step-daughter. As usual, she had her own devious reasons. The King had recently put up taxes, and the royal family was becoming rather unpopular. The wicked Queen thought that a royal romance followed by a fairy-tale wedding would be just the trick to boost the royal ratings and make them popular with the people again.
“Now dear,” she said to the lovely princess Beatrice as she was brushing her hair one morning. “It’s high time you found a nice rich young prince and got married.
“But your Majesty,” cried Beatrice “Prince Bertie has disappeared and nobody knows where he is.”
“Prince Bertie!” spluttered the Queen. “You’re not still hankering after that old flame are you? Since the day he vanished, he hasn’t so much as sent you a postcard. Don’t you see that he’s forgotten all about you?”
“Forgotten me?” said Beatrice with tears in her eyes. “Oh, no he can’t have. My dear Bertie would never do that.. He’s on a top secret mission to save the country. He can’t let anyone know a thing about it. That’s what think, and I won’t believe anything different.”
“Poppycock!” cried the Queen. “Why don’t you just marry Prince Freddie. He’s got lots of money.”
“But, but Freddy’s boring.”
“Well what about Prince Boris.? He’s handsome and rich”
“But Boris boasts and tells fibs ! No, I won’t marry anyone but my dear Bertie. Not ever. I’ll wait a hundred years for him if needs be.” And with that, Beatrice got up and ran out into the garden.
The queen was furious, because she hated Bertie, and she certainly did not have any plans to turn him back into a prince and suffer him as her son-in-law.
“He’ll be telling those unfunny jokes of his over breakfast, oh no no no, we can’t have that. And riding around on that awful skateboard. Ugh! Its so unroyal ! And besides, he doesn’t approve of my wicked spells. Bertie… He’s out of the question… But Beatrice won’t let him out her thoughts. Poor deluded girl.”
The Wicked Queen thought and thought about the problem for six whole days – but still no solution came to mind.
On the seventh day, she was having her breakfast with the King when he exclaimed:
“Oh Gosh. Oh Golly. For a moment I thought that was Bertie back from the dead!”
And he tapped his newspaper. The queen looked over his shoulder and saw a picture of Bertie – only it wasn’t actually Bertie – it was somebody else who looked just like him.
His name was Norman Crompton and until recently he lived in a castle. The newspaper reported that he had just sold his ancient home including the beautiful deer park that surrounded it. The company that had bought Crompton Castle planned to knock it down and build a multi-storey car park in its place.
The picture showed Norman cracking open a bottle of champagne. You see, the property company had paid him a lot of money for his castle.
“His heart seems to be in the right place” remarked the queen.
“Yes, in his wallet !” laughed the King.
Later that day, the Queen asked her chief spy to find Norman Crompton’s mobile phone number for her. When he reported back with the number, she sent him a text message;
“Hi Norman. How would you like to marry the lovely Princess Beatrice and inherit the Kingdom? All you have to do is pretend to be Prince Bertie. Yours, the Wicked Queen.”
Norman texted back right away:
“No kidding? Of course I would – just so long as Bertie doesn’t turn up.”
And the queen replied:
“Don’t worry. He’s with the fishes.”
By which Norman understood that Bertie had met a watery grave – because how could he have guessed that he had been turned into a frog? That was the Queen’s closely guarded secret.
That evening, she took Beatrice into a quiet corner of the palace and whispered some very important news to her. Only it wasn’t true news, it was a pack of fibs that she had made up. She claimed that Bertie was about to come back from his top secret mission. She said that this had been told to her that morning by her chief spymaster. He was due back in exactly a month’s time, and the day after his return Beatrice would marry him.
Beatrice was so excited when she heard the news that she didn’t know what to do with herself. As soon as the Wicked Queen had left her, she ran out into the garden and down to the pond.
“Oh dear little frog!” she exclaimed to Bertie. “All this long while that Bertie has been away, I’ve poured my heart out to you. And now, do you know what? He’s coming back! Yes it’s true ! The Queen told me herself. And in a month’s time we are to be wed ! I’m so excited I just want to laugh and cry, dance and lie down, shout and keep my mouth shut, all at the same time.
“
And that’s how Bertie felt too. You see, he really believed that the wicked Queen had decided to turn him back into a prince so that he could marry Beatrice after all. You see, sometimes, when you really want something to happen with all your heart, you are ready to believe even the most unlikely fibs that people tell you.
When he told the little tadpoles about Bertie’s news, they swarmed around in circles and shouted
Yippeeeee !
Sadie the swan said, “Oh Bertie ! A true fairy tale ending. What on earth shall I wear ?”
And even Colin the Carp said,
“Congratulations”
Which is highly unusual, as he’s normally he’s ever so grumpy . Then he added”
“I don’t suppose any fish will be on the invitation list.”
The month went past terribly slowly for both Bertie and Beatrice. The day before the wedding was due to take place, Beatrice was looking out of her window when she saw a gold carriage and six white horses pull up outside the palace. And out of the carriage stepped Prince Bertie:
“Oh dear dear Bertie!” she said to herself “How I long to run and kiss your sweet face, even if it is a bit froggy like Freddie said.”
But Beatrice had been forbidden to speak to Bertie until the moment of her wedding. Both the King and Queen said it was a strict tradition and if she broke it, it would mean terrible bad luck for their future.
And Bertie also saw the golden coach arrive. And although he couldn’t see Norman step out – Elsa the Palace Cat did. She knows all the palace gossip and never misses a thing. She ran straight down to the pond with the news.
“Guess what Pond Life,” she murred, “The wicked queen has found somebody called Norman who looks just like Prince Bertie. Beatrice is going to marry him tomorrow and she will never know the difference.”
“I thought that something like that would happen,” said Colin. “If the Wicked Queen went to all the trouble of turning Bertie into a frog, why would she want to turn him back in a prince again? I should think that life up in the palace is much less annoying without Prince Bertie around.”
But Bertie wasn’t listening. He did not know what to do, but he knew he had to do something – so he hitched a lift back up to the palace on Elsa’s back, and she took him all the way up to Beatrice’s door. She meowed and the lovely Princess let her in.
“Oh Elsa, “ she said. “You’ve brought me my lucky frog. He probably wants some water. I’ll run a cold bath for him”
But Bertie didn’t fancy a cold bath. Instead, he hopped onto her dressing table and croaked his heart out. Beatrice was quite puzzled. He had seemed to glad when she had first spoken of the wedding, and now that her happiness was almost fulfilled, her frog was upset about something. If only she could understand what all his croaking was about?
That night, she could hardly sleep with excitement. In the morning the maids came in and helped her get into her wedding dress and look at her most radiant and lovely for the wedding. One of them took a broom and tried to shoe Bertie out of the bathroom, but Beatrice just managed to stop her in time before she really hurt the poor little frog. In fact, when she went down to her carriage, she ordered the maid to bring him to the wedding.
“Eee – Yuck ! “ she said as she picked him up.
Bertie had never felt so low in all his life. He felt even sadder than on the day he had been turned into a frog.
Here he was travelling in a golden carriage to his own wedding – only it wasn’t going to be HIS wedding – he was only going to watch his dear princess marry somebody called Norman who happened to look rather like him – and all because of the Wicked Queen !
As Beatrice entered the church, the orchestra played “Here Comes the Bride”. Her great-uncle Prince Evan took her arm and led her down the isle to where Norman and the archbishop were already waiting for her. As she stood side by side with Norman in front of the alter she said ever so softly into his ear:
“Darling Bertie: It’s so wonderful that you are back. All the time you’ve been away, I’ve been wondering one thing:”
“And what was that my dear” whispered Norman, trying as best as possible to sound like Bertie. And princess Beatrice whispered
“Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?”
“I don’t know. Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?”
“Don’t you know? Because he had nobody to go with. … alright then, which ghost has the best hearing?”
“I don’t know my dear. Which ghost does has the best hearing?”
“Why, it’s the eeriest of course!”
Just then, the archbishop cleared his throat to get their attention. And he began the ceremenony. He asked Norman
“Do you, Bertie, take Betrice to be your lawful wedded wife.”
“And do you, Beatrice, take Bertie to love, honour and Obey”
And Beatrice replied.
“No way!”
“Why ever not?” asked the Bishop
“Because he’s not my Bertie. He’s an imposter! Guards Seize him!”
The wicked Queen jumped up and screamed”
“Guards. Do no such thing. My step-daughter’s gone out of her sweet tiny mind!
But the King said,
“No, No No. Guards Do Seize Him. ! She’s right you know – that isn’t Bertie. Whoever he is, he’s an imposter!”
And then speaking to the Queen he said,
“You see my dear: I had an inkling last night over dinner that there was something not quite right with that young man. I couldn’t put my finger on it – but now Beatrice has said he’s not Bertie – I see that she’s spot on. Do you recall him over dinner? I asked him what he had been up to while he was away, and he replied “Father, I wish I could tell you but it’s a secret.”
Well that was pretty strange because if there was one thing Bertie could never keep, it was a secret. And then later on, he only ate one helping of chocolate pudding. That was most unlike himself. I thought he must be off colour – nerves about the big day – but no, now I see that it’s because he’s not Bertie.”
And the wicked Queen was afraid that her secret would be found out. So she let the guards drag poor Norman off the palace dungeons. Later on, he escaped – but only after she turned him into a mouse.
When the guards had hauled the imposter out of the cathedral, there was a huge uproar and loads of confusion among the people. The King made a long speech to calm everyone down – in fact lots of them became very bored and either left or nodded off. While he was doing this, Beatrice spoke to her luck frog:
“Dearest little frog,” she said.
“I knew you were trying to tell me something – only I could not quite understand what it was. It was only when I stood side by side with the supposed “Prince Bertie” that I felt troubled. I sort of felt it wasn’t him. And so to make sure, I asked him two of Bertie’s favourite riddles. He didn’t know the answers – even though Bertie had told them to me thousands of times. Then I knew for sure that he was an imposter.
But it was you, dear frog, who first put me on my guard. I’m so grateful I could kiss you:
And with those works, she began to raise Bertie , sitting on the palm of her hand, to her lips.
Bertie closed his eyes and thought:
“Yes! the Lovely Princess Beatrice is about to kiss me at long last, and I will be turned back into a prince.”
But unfortunately, the Wicked Queen saw what was about to happen and
Kerpow !
She pointed her wand at Bertie and shouted
“Eat Slime” at the very second that Beatrice’s lips touched Bertie’s head.
And that was enough to prevent the kiss working, and poor Bertie didn’t turn back into a Prince – he remained a frog and had to hop off back to his pond.
But that evening he wasn’t too sad – because at least he had prevented a lovely princess marrying the wrong person. And there was still chance that one day he would turn back into the True Bertie and marry his Princess.
Thanks Niya… a new Bertie story is coming up VERY soon !!!
hi Bertie could you write a storynory about u and Beatrice going to the fair and ask Natasha to read it please???
please answer back?
ih bertie kood you write a storynory about the all of the us
please answer back?
Thanks Eunice, maybe a solution
Dear Prince Bertie, I know that if StoryNory were to tell how you turned back into a prince the Bertie storie would have to end. I was thinking that there could be more stories after that if they were Prince Bertie telling stories about his life in the pond to his children. Of course it wouldn’t be as suspenseful, but it could still give all of us who are pining to know how you were turned back into a prince.
-Eunice M.
I LOVE IS STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear S person Bertie lover, that is such a nice idea. I will think about it..
Hi Bertie I would like it if you replied to this one.
Can you make a story about Beatrice finding out that you are a frog, but since she cannot turn you back, you just become friends, and that is the way that it goes on…and on…and on… Dot dot dot. I just want Beatrice to become friends with you and know that you are Bertie.
When is prince bertie turning back
Dear Nightwolf, many thanks for your comment. Yes it’s true that I have been short of ideas for a Bertie story recently. I think your suggestion that one should focus on Beatrice is brilliant ! Thank you. I am about to write one about an April Fool on the pond, but I WILL take up your idea and do the Beatrice one next.
dear bertie,
ive been listening to story nory for about 7 years now and i dont think there has been any bertie storys for… a long time. So could you make more bertie storys?
I think this one should be about how princess Beatrice grew up and i think that the story should be about beatrice rather than bertie not that i dont like you bertie but you havent done any storys about purely beatrice except for the sweetest princess contest so could you make a story like that thank you bertie for all your wonderful storys PLEASE REPLY!!!!!
Heleryes, I am sorry Bertie, I hate the wicked Queen don’t you
Heleryes, I am sorry Bertie, I hate the wicked witch don’t you
Asome,Weird,Great.Liked the story aaaaaaaaaaa
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Asome,Weird,Great.Liked the story aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Dear cindy, one day, maybe, I will marry princess Beatrice. Let’s hope!
Please hurry i’ve waiting for an aneswer!
PLEASE!!!!!! answer back please!!!! please!!!! please!!!! and please let prince bertie get married to princess beatrice [please answer soon!!!]
Bertie, can you write?
Dear Bertie,
Can you please add me in a Bertie story?
I really want to be in your website, and by
the way, I LOVE your stories.
They are so creative.
Hope I can have answers soon.
Your biggest fan, Princess Dimond [Cynthia]
How old r u ? And how old is norman
best Bertie story ever so imaginative and mysterious and want to hear more Bertie stories.
bartie pls replay i love your storys. emma
love it. and i love storynory. it is the best. i tray to lisen to it as much as i ken.
i wish ter wer more ten 1 story a week. but i do not layk songs.
so no more songs pls.
Bertie is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thankyou for the story
Why Bertie didn’t became a prince?
I loved this story. Since I have listened to it I’ve been wondering how
princess Beatrice understood what the croaking was all about.
I Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
O.M.G it’s so clever.100% well thought out.
I love you Bertie:):):)::):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It all started like this. Bertie was sitting on his lily leaf in the sun thinking that life as a frog wasn’t all that bad, when he saw Princess Beatrice walking in the palace garden with – another man !
Right away, he recognised the scoundrel as the smarmy Prince Boris. He liked to call himself Boris the Brave, and now Bertie heard his smarmy voice saying:
“And did you ever hear about the time I fought a seven-headed sea monster?”
“Er, no.” said Beatrice. “But I suspect that I’m going to now..”
Boris started to tell a story which Bertie was certain was untrue, because anyone who has really fought a sea monster would know that they have nine heads, not seven – unless somebody had already cut two of them off, which seemed a bit unlikely.
“Oh dear,” said Bertie. “If the lovely Beatrice marries Boris, I won’t have any reason to go on living. I might as well just hop off and die.”
His only comfort came from Colin the Carp who was swimming by.
“I shouldn’t worry,” said Colin. “Beatrice looks bored silly by that Prince Boris the Boaster.”
A couple of weeks went by, and one evening Bertie saw Beatrice walking in the garden with yet another man. This time it was Prince Freddie from the next door Kingdom. Freddie was terribly brainy at maths, and he had known Beatrice since they were both little. In fact, he used to help Beatrice with her maths homework. Bertie knew this, and he was just a tiny bit jealous that another prince had been her friend for so long.
“Freddie dear” said Beatrice.
“Ah-oh” thought Bertie. “She called him ‘dear’”. Beatrice went on:
“Do you see that frog sitting on a lily leaf? It’s very strange, but sometimes when I see his funny little face, I can’t help thinking of my long lost Prince Bertie”.
Freddie chuckled when he heard this: “Indeed my dear, “ he replied. “How right you are. Bertie always was a bit froggy in the face.”
Bertie was outraged when he heard this. “See here!” he called out. “When I was a prince. I didn’t look in the least bit like a frog.”
But Beatrice and Freddie couldn’t understand what he was saying. All they could hear was “croak! Croak!”, and Freddie remarked:
“Now look– you’ve hurt the little frog’s feelings because you said he looked like Prince Bertie!”
Beatrice smiled for a moment, and then said, “Oh Freddie, don’t be so cruel. You know how dear Prince Bertie is to my heart.” And they both ambled back to the palace.
For the next couple of weeks or so, Bertie didn’t see any princes stepping out into the gardens with Beatrice, and he stopped worrying about Freddie and Boris. But up in the Palace, the Wicked Queen was plotting a royal wedding for her step-daughter. As usual, she had her own devious reasons. The King had recently put up taxes, and the royal family was becoming rather unpopular. The wicked Queen thought that a royal romance followed by a fairy-tale wedding would be just the trick to boost the royal ratings and make them popular with the people again.
“Now dear,” she said to the lovely princess Beatrice as she was brushing her hair one morning. “It’s high time you found a nice rich young prince and got married.
“But your Majesty,” cried Beatrice “Prince Bertie has disappeared and nobody knows where he is.”
“Prince Bertie!” spluttered the Queen. “You’re not still hankering after that old flame are you? Since the day he vanished, he hasn’t so much as sent you a postcard. Don’t you see that he’s forgotten all about you?”
“Forgotten me?” said Beatrice with tears in her eyes. “Oh, no he can’t have. My dear Bertie would never do that.. He’s on a top secret mission to save the country. He can’t let anyone know a thing about it. That’s what think, and I won’t believe anything different.”
“Poppycock!” cried the Queen. “Why don’t you just marry Prince Freddie. He’s got lots of money.”
“But, but Freddy’s boring.”
“Well what about Prince Boris.? He’s handsome and rich”
“But Boris boasts and tells fibs ! No, I won’t marry anyone but my dear Bertie. Not ever. I’ll wait a hundred years for him if needs be.” And with that, Beatrice got up and ran out into the garden.
The queen was furious, because she hated Bertie, and she certainly did not have any plans to turn him back into a prince and suffer him as her son-in-law.
“He’ll be telling those unfunny jokes of his over breakfast, oh no no no, we can’t have that. And riding around on that awful skateboard. Ugh! Its so unroyal ! And besides, he doesn’t approve of my wicked spells. Bertie… He’s out of the question… But Beatrice won’t let him out her thoughts. Poor deluded girl.”
The Wicked Queen thought and thought about the problem for six whole days – but still no solution came to mind.
On the seventh day, she was having her breakfast with the King when he exclaimed:
“Oh Gosh. Oh Golly. For a moment I thought that was Bertie back from the dead!”
And he tapped his newspaper. The queen looked over his shoulder and saw a picture of Bertie – only it wasn’t actually Bertie – it was somebody else who looked just like him.
His name was Norman Crompton and until recently he lived in a castle. The newspaper reported that he had just sold his ancient home including the beautiful deer park that surrounded it. The company that had bought Crompton Castle planned to knock it down and build a multi-storey car park in its place.
The picture showed Norman cracking open a bottle of champagne. You see, the property company had paid him a lot of money for his castle.
“His heart seems to be in the right place” remarked the queen.
“Yes, in his wallet !” laughed the King.
Later that day, the Queen asked her chief spy to find Norman Crompton’s mobile phone number for her. When he reported back with the number, she sent him a text message;
“Hi Norman. How would you like to marry the lovely Princess Beatrice and inherit the Kingdom? All you have to do is pretend to be Prince Bertie. Yours, the Wicked Queen.”
Norman texted back right away:
“No kidding? Of course I would – just so long as Bertie doesn’t turn up.”
And the queen replied:
“Don’t worry. He’s with the fishes.”
By which Norman understood that Bertie had met a watery grave – because how could he have guessed that he had been turned into a frog? That was the Queen’s closely guarded secret.
That evening, she took Beatrice into a quiet corner of the palace and whispered some very important news to her. Only it wasn’t true news, it was a pack of fibs that she had made up. She claimed that Bertie was about to come back from his top secret mission. She said that this had been told to her that morning by her chief spymaster. He was due back in exactly a month’s time, and the day after his return Beatrice would marry him.
Beatrice was so excited when she heard the news that she didn’t know what to do with herself. As soon as the Wicked Queen had left her, she ran out into the garden and down to the pond.
“Oh dear little frog!” she exclaimed to Bertie. “All this long while that Bertie has been away, I’ve poured my heart out to you. And now, do you know what? He’s coming back! Yes it’s true ! The Queen told me herself. And in a month’s time we are to be wed ! I’m so excited I just want to laugh and cry, dance and lie down, shout and keep my mouth shut, all at the same time.
“
And that’s how Bertie felt too. You see, he really believed that the wicked Queen had decided to turn him back into a prince so that he could marry Beatrice after all. You see, sometimes, when you really want something to happen with all your heart, you are ready to believe even the most unlikely fibs that people tell you.
When he told the little tadpoles about Bertie’s news, they swarmed around in circles and shouted
Yippeeeee !
Sadie the swan said, “Oh Bertie ! A true fairy tale ending. What on earth shall I wear ?”
And even Colin the Carp said,
“Congratulations”
Which is highly unusual, as he’s normally he’s ever so grumpy . Then he added”
“I don’t suppose any fish will be on the invitation list.”
The month went past terribly slowly for both Bertie and Beatrice. The day before the wedding was due to take place, Beatrice was looking out of her window when she saw a gold carriage and six white horses pull up outside the palace. And out of the carriage stepped Prince Bertie:
“Oh dear dear Bertie!” she said to herself “How I long to run and kiss your sweet face, even if it is a bit froggy like Freddie said.”
But Beatrice had been forbidden to speak to Bertie until the moment of her wedding. Both the King and Queen said it was a strict tradition and if she broke it, it would mean terrible bad luck for their future.
And Bertie also saw the golden coach arrive. And although he couldn’t see Norman step out – Elsa the Palace Cat did. She knows all the palace gossip and never misses a thing. She ran straight down to the pond with the news.
“Guess what Pond Life,” she murred, “The wicked queen has found somebody called Norman who looks just like Prince Bertie. Beatrice is going to marry him tomorrow and she will never know the difference.”
“I thought that something like that would happen,” said Colin. “If the Wicked Queen went to all the trouble of turning Bertie into a frog, why would she want to turn him back in a prince again? I should think that life up in the palace is much less annoying without Prince Bertie around.”
But Bertie wasn’t listening. He did not know what to do, but he knew he had to do something – so he hitched a lift back up to the palace on Elsa’s back, and she took him all the way up to Beatrice’s door. She meowed and the lovely Princess let her in.
“Oh Elsa, “ she said. “You’ve brought me my lucky frog. He probably wants some water. I’ll run a cold bath for him”
But Bertie didn’t fancy a cold bath. Instead, he hopped onto her dressing table and croaked his heart out. Beatrice was quite puzzled. He had seemed to glad when she had first spoken of the wedding, and now that her happiness was almost fulfilled, her frog was upset about something. If only she could understand what all his croaking was about?
That night, she could hardly sleep with excitement. In the morning the maids came in and helped her get into her wedding dress and look at her most radiant and lovely for the wedding. One of them took a broom and tried to shoe Bertie out of the bathroom, but Beatrice just managed to stop her in time before she really hurt the poor little frog. In fact, when she went down to her carriage, she ordered the maid to bring him to the wedding.
“Eee – Yuck ! “ she said as she picked him up.
Bertie had never felt so low in all his life. He felt even sadder than on the day he had been turned into a frog.
Here he was travelling in a golden carriage to his own wedding – only it wasn’t going to be HIS wedding – he was only going to watch his dear princess marry somebody called Norman who happened to look rather like him – and all because of the Wicked Queen !
As Beatrice entered the church, the orchestra played “Here Comes the Bride”. Her great-uncle Prince Evan took her arm and led her down the isle to where Norman and the archbishop were already waiting for her. As she stood side by side with Norman in front of the alter she said ever so softly into his ear:
“Darling Bertie: It’s so wonderful that you are back. All the time you’ve been away, I’ve been wondering one thing:”
“And what was that my dear” whispered Norman, trying as best as possible to sound like Bertie. And princess Beatrice whispered
“Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?”
“I don’t know. Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?”
“Don’t you know? Because he had nobody to go with. … alright then, which ghost has the best hearing?”
“I don’t know my dear. Which ghost does has the best hearing?”
“Why, it’s the eeriest of course!”
Just then, the archbishop cleared his throat to get their attention. And he began the ceremenony. He asked Norman
“Do you, Bertie, take Betrice to be your lawful wedded wife.”
“And do you, Beatrice, take Bertie to love, honour and Obey”
And Beatrice replied.
“No way!”
“Why ever not?” asked the Bishop
“Because he’s not my Bertie. He’s an imposter! Guards Seize him!”
The wicked Queen jumped up and screamed”
“Guards. Do no such thing. My step-daughter’s gone out of her sweet tiny mind!
But the King said,
“No, No No. Guards Do Seize Him. ! She’s right you know – that isn’t Bertie. Whoever he is, he’s an imposter!”
And then speaking to the Queen he said,
“You see my dear: I had an inkling last night over dinner that there was something not quite right with that young man. I couldn’t put my finger on it – but now Beatrice has said he’s not Bertie – I see that she’s spot on. Do you recall him over dinner? I asked him what he had been up to while he was away, and he replied “Father, I wish I could tell you but it’s a secret.”
Well that was pretty strange because if there was one thing Bertie could never keep, it was a secret. And then later on, he only ate one helping of chocolate pudding. That was most unlike himself. I thought he must be off colour – nerves about the big day – but no, now I see that it’s because he’s not Bertie.”
And the wicked Queen was afraid that her secret would be found out. So she let the guards drag poor Norman off the palace dungeons. Later on, he escaped – but only after she turned him into a mouse.
When the guards had hauled the imposter out of the cathedral, there was a huge uproar and loads of confusion among the people. The King made a long speech to calm everyone down – in fact lots of them became very bored and either left or nodded off. While he was doing this, Beatrice spoke to her luck frog:
“Dearest little frog,” she said.
“I knew you were trying to tell me something – only I could not quite understand what it was. It was only when I stood side by side with the supposed “Prince Bertie” that I felt troubled. I sort of felt it wasn’t him. And so to make sure, I asked him two of Bertie’s favourite riddles. He didn’t know the answers – even though Bertie had told them to me thousands of times. Then I knew for sure that he was an imposter.
But it was you, dear frog, who first put me on my guard. I’m so grateful I could kiss you:
And with those works, she began to raise Bertie , sitting on the palm of her hand, to her lips.
Bertie closed his eyes and thought:
“Yes! the Lovely Princess Beatrice is about to kiss me at long last, and I will be turned back into a prince.”
But unfortunately, the Wicked Queen saw what was about to happen and
Kerpow !
She pointed her wand at Bertie and shouted
“Eat Slime” at the very second that Beatrice’s lips touched Bertie’s head.
And that was enough to prevent the kiss working, and poor Bertie didn’t turn back into a Prince – he remained a frog and had to hop off back to his pond.
But that evening he wasn’t too sad – because at least he had prevented a lovely princess marrying the wrong person. And there was still chance that one day he would turn back into the True Bertie and marry his Princess.
joy says:
May 26, 2008 at 1:44 pm
the story is very interesting.my daughter doesn’t fall asleep untill the story is end.
Dear Princess beatrice Bertie Natasha and everyone at storynory u guys are curative
U have the best story I am very eger to hear the next story
XoXo Fatima
Dear Bertie,
U r going 2 kill us me michell everyone with the ? Will u get marred please answer.
I’ll tell Natasha for you Anya Rose, but she is quite a peaceful type, and not likely to kill anyone, even the wicked queen.
PLEASE!!!!!! answer back please!! please!! please!!
and please tell natasha to kill the wicked queen or to tell the king to send the wicked queen away
ANSWER ME BACK SOON!!! :)
why doesn’t the king get rid of the wicked queen then bertie can marry Princess Beatrice? tell me because i will always wonder! :)
Dear Simone, My age depends on which story I am in. We love holidays here ! School…. well have too… my favourite thing in the pond is green slime.
Dear Bertie, My name is Simone and I am 8 years old. I wrote 2 times. I have a few questions for you. By the way, I LOVE YOUR STORIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1. How old are you?
2. Do you celebrate holidays with the kingdom?
3. Do you go to school?
4. What is your favorite thing to do in the pond?
Love, your #1 fan,
Simone
P.S. Please answer back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Bertie, I have a question: Are you going to get back at the queen and marry Beatrice? Please answer back, Simone
Storynory is so fun. When I’m bored I go on the computer to listen to it. I especially like Bertie’s double because it is funny. Long live storynory!!
e=hey this story is rubish LOL
I LOVETHIS BOOK IT IS SO FUNNY!
good story
the one who wrote the whole story thing before me was an imposter he/ she copied my first name. **** u
nice story~
I LIKE THIS STIORY EVRY MUCH! THANK YOU
wooooow such a wonderful fairytale
Natasha,
If Prince Bertie turned into a prince, then he wouldn’t have any cool stories to tell! But turning back for awhile would help. I really think storybooks and stuff put me to sleep, and I like yours.
Thank you!
Dear Bertie,
Thank you for answering my question.
Regards,
Zainab
Dear Zainab, thank you for being such a loyal listener. It’s really great to know that you have been following for so long. I’m afraid the King is a bit of an old fuddy-duddy and doesn’t listen to Storynory yet, so he has no idea what is going on. Keep listening !
Hello Bertie,
I really like your stories and I want to appreciate your talent. I’ve known this website since about 5 years ( including the times my mother read them to me ) and will never regret my luck since this website is like a vessel of knowledge to absorb. And last of all, if you don’t mind me asking, does the king know that you are a frog? And isn’t he wondering about where you have been? Doesn’t he suspect the Wicked Queen? Once again, I appreciate your efforts and would like to give you a big thank you!
Xoxo,
Zainab
P.S: Please Answer
please reply
Dear Beartie
I’m Lily’s brother,
and I would like to know when your going to kiss Beartrice
from Leon
please reply
sorry Bertie mean beartrice
dear Bertie,
when are you going to get married, and kiss lovely princess Beartris
when is Bertie turn back in to a human
Dear Bertie,
My name is Angie and I am 11 years old. Most of the kids my age are usually using Facebook or Skype at this time, but I’m enjoying my time reading your educational and entertaining stories. When I read your stories, I feel like I’m part of them. I was surfing the internet one day when I was 8 years of age and I found this website, I was honoured when I found it. It’s suprising how some of my comments are still here! I will never regret or forget what this site has done to me.
Lots Of Love
Angie xx
I love this story
Dear Milly, I’m glad you liked the story. I don’t know when I will turn back…. oh dea.
i really loked the story and can you tell me when are you going to be turend into prince.please reply me bertie please.
lovely story. So sad Bertie was not turned into prince
lol lol lol lol poor jab i just feel so sorry for the little frog.curse that witch
so so so so so so so funny lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
That was a very nice story
I LIKED THAT STORY SOOO MUSH!
Hello
Bertie double is a chapter in the Bertie series where we see
Bertie trying to escape being mistaken for someone else. For a Royal Prince can only have one true identity.
Thanks for listening to the Bertie series
Bye Bye
N*
we loved it!
my little sister was listaning and she loved and i found it quite interesting aswell!
DID PRINCE BERTIE GET MARED TO THE PRINCESS
Dear Lily did you catch Bertie in Siberia?
Hi,
I really like these stories!
My dad reads these stories to me every night!
But we’ve been waiting for the next one for ages!
i like this story but jenny is right. why can’t
bertie turn back into a prince? i don’t want the stories to end but it would be nice if we could have some more when bertie is a prince, not a frog.
please reply
REALLY LONG…good for bed times thou <3 I liked it hope you do to Enjoy <3
love love love
I want that Bertie turns into a prinss
i wahnt
This good story
I want Bertie to turn into a prince and he can marry Beatrice!
i like this story it was so funny and halarious.
Bertie I’m getting a little impatient !
This is booooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring!!!!!!!!!!,
Will Bertie ever turn back into a prince?
I love bertie’s double ! Will Bertie ever turn back into a prince?
oh my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my my. Woah that was hard saying all those things. BUT I JUST CANT STAY PATIENTLY UNTIL BERTIE IS A PRINCE AGAIN. So I only have one request : could the wicked queen please turn the frog back in to a P-R-I-N-C-E. Only the person who write the story has the power to do it. RIGHT EVERY BODY. NOW LETS HEAR A CHEER FOR p-r-i-n-c-e- B-e-r-t-i-e. Oh yeah so please grant my first but LAST WISH Thank you
Goooooooooooood
Prince Bertie! You have not answered my question! I am getting slightly impatient and a little angry! Pleeeeeaaaase answer my former comment/question!!!!!!!!! R.S.P.V.
Awful,Bertie. i feel so sorry for you
what a long story whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo what smart people
I love,love,love you fairy tale!
sooooooooooooo goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood love
yeah i kind off liked it but not so much
thank you so much … It is really exciting listen
good luck
and best regards .. Ahmed
hello natasha this was a great story!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just lllllllllllllooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeee iiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttt
hi
it is good and it is awesome
hi !
its awesome , i never read that type of story ever
hi !
thats awesome inever read story like that
Wow, I liked The part The Lovely Princess Beatrice asked the riddles! Ha! He didn’t have a clue, THAT was funny!
dear madam or I see this story is very nice really Ilike it
hai bertie please post more novels and katie;s stories and also post the story named heidi
Bertie, even when you have made a story about the reunion with Princess Beatrice, I hope you continue making “Prince Bertie stories!”
R.S.P.V.
That story is worth a MILLION!!!
girllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll let,s go rock on
you rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Bertie!
When will you marry Beatrice?!
could you ever be a prince to marry beatrice so the whole story would be over. please do so
I love this story
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
:arrow: well got to go bye bye
:arrow: wow this is fun :arrow: :arrow: :arrow:
berty
why dont you have natash tell bertris :???: :?:
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Bertie’s Double
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Storynory’s Bertie – in doubleThe Lovely Princess Beatrice has stayed true to her long lost prince Bertie for many a long day. But there was a time when she was seen walking in the Palace Gardens with another prince! Still worse, the Wicked Queen was determined to hold a Royal Wedding to boost the popularity ratings of the Royal Family. Bertie the Frog’s hopes of being turned back into a prince and marrying Beatrice were almost dashed into a million tiny pieces.
Read by Natasha. Duration 25 minutes.
It all started like this. Bertie was sitting on his lily leaf in the sun thinking that life as a frog wasn’t all that bad, when he saw Princess Beatrice walking in the palace garden with – another man !
Right away, he recognised the scoundrel as the smarmy Prince Boris. He liked to call himself Boris the Brave, and now Bertie heard his smarmy voice saying:
“And did you ever hear about the time I fought a seven-headed sea-monster?”
“Er, no.’ said Beatrice. “But I’m suspect that I’m going to now..”
Boris started to tell a story which Bertie was certain was untrue, because anyone who has really fought a sea monster would know that they have nine heads, not seven – unless somebody had already cut two of then off, which seemed a bit unlikely.
“Oh dear,” said Bertie. “If the lovely Beatrice marries Boris, I won’t have any reason to go on living. I might as well just hop off and die.”
His only comfort came from Colin he Carp who was swimming by.
“I shouldn’t worry,” said Colin. “Beatrice looks bored silly by that Prince Boris the Boaster.”
A couple of weeks went by, and one evening Bertie saw Beatrice walking in the garden with yet another man. This time it was Prince Freddie from the next-door Kingdom. Freddie was terribly brainy at maths, and he had known Beatrice since they were both little. In fact, he used to help Beatrice with her maths homework. Bertie knew this, and he was just a tiny bit jealous that another prince had been her friend for so long.
“Freddie dear” said Beatrice.
“Ah-oh” thought Bertie. “She called him ‘dear’”. Beatrice went on:
“Do you see that frog sitting on a Lilly leaf? It’s very strange, but sometimes when I see his funny little face, I can’t help thinking of my long lost Prince Bertie”.
Freddie chuckled when he heard this: “Indeed my dear, “ he replied. “How right you are. Bertie always was a bit froggy in the face.”
Bertie was outraged when he heard this. “See here!” he called out. “When I was a prince. I didn’t look in the least bit like a frog.”
But Beatrice and Freddie couldn’t understand what he was saying. All they could hear was “croak! Croak!”, and Freddie remarked:
“Now look– you’ve hurt the little frog’s feelings because you said he looked like Prince Bertie!”
Beatrice smiled for a moment, and then said, “Oh Freddie, don’t be so cruel. You know how dear Prince Bertie is to my heart.” And they both ambled back to the palace.
For the next couple of weeks or so, Bertie didn’t see any princes stepping out into the gardens with Beatrice, and he stopped worrying about Freddie and Boris. But up in the Palace, the Wicked Queen was plotting a Royal Wedding for her step-daughter. As usual, she had her own devious reasons. The King had recently put up taxes, and the Royal Family was becoming rather unpopular. The wicked Queen thought that a Royal Romance followed by a fairy tale wedding would be just the trick to boost the royal ratings and make them popular with the people again.
“Now dear,” she said to the lovely princess Beatrice as she was brushing her hair one morning. “It’s high time you found a nice rich young prince and got married.
“But your Majesty,” cried Beatrice “Prince Bertie has disappeared and nobody knows where he is.”
“Prince Bertie!” spluttered the Queen. “You’re not still hankering after that old flame are you? Since the day he vanished, he hasn’t so much as sent you a postcard. Don’t you see that he’s forgotten all about you!”
“Forgotten me?” said Beatrice with tears in her eyes. “Oh, no he can’t have. My dear Bertie would never do that.. He’s on a top secret mission to save the country. He can’t let anyone know a thing about it. That’s what think, and I won’t believe anything different.”
“Poppycock!” cried the Queen. “Why don’t you just marry Prince Freddie. He’s got lots of money.”
“But, but Freddy’s boring.”
“Well what about Prince Boris.? He’s handsome and rich”
“But Boris boasts and tells fibs ! No, I won’t marry anyone but my dear Bertie. Not ever. I’ll wait a hundred years for him if needs be. “ And with that, Beatrice got up and ran out into the garden.
The queen was furious, because she hated Bertie, and she certainly did not have any plans to turn him back into a prince and suffer him as her son-in-law.
“He’ll be telling those unfunny jokes of his over breakfast, oh no no no, we can’t have that. And riding around on that awful skateboard. Ugh! Its so unroyal ! And besides, he doesn’t approve of my wicked spells. Bertie… He’s out of the question… But Beatrice won’t let him out her thoughts. Poor deluded girl.”
The Wicked Queen thought and thought about the problem for six whole days – but still no solution came to mind.
On the seventh day, she was having her breakfast with the King when he exclaimed:
“Oh Gosh. Oh Golly. For a moment I thought that was Bertie back from the dead!”
And he tapped his newspaper. The queen looked over his shoulder and saw a picture of Bertie – only it wasn’t actually Bertie – it was somebody else who looked just like him.
His name was Norman Crompton and until recently he lived in a castle. The newspaper reported that he had just sold his ancient home including the beautiful deer park that surrounded it. The company that had bought Crompton Castle planned to knock it down and build a multi-story car-park in its place.
The picture showed Norman cracking open a bottle of Champaign. You see, the property company had paid him a lot of money for his castle.
“His heart seems to be in the right place” remarked the queen.
“Yes, in his wallet !” Laughed the King.
Later that day, the Queen asked her chief spy to find Norman Crompton’s mobile phone number for her. When he reported back with the number, she sent him a text message;
“Hi Norman. How would you like to marry the lovely Princess Beatrice and inherit the Kingdom? All you have to do is pretend to be Prince Bertie. Yours, The Wicked Queen.”
Norman texted back right away:
“No kidding? Of course I would – just so long as Bertie doesn’t turn up.”
And the queen replied
“Don’t worry. He’s with the fishes.”
By which Norman understood that Bertie had met a watery grave – because how could he have guessed that he had been turned into a frog? That was the Queen’s closely guarded secret.
That evening, she took Beatrice into a quiet corner of the palace and whispered some very important news to her. Only it wasn’t true news, it was a pack of fibs that she had made up. She claimed that Bertie was about to come back from his top secret mission. She said that this had been told to her that morning by her chief spy-master. He was due back in exactly a month’s time, and the day after his return Beatrice would marry him.
Beatrice was so excited when she heard the news that she didn’t know what to do with herself. As soon as the Wicked Queen had left her, she ran out into the garden and down to the pond.
“Oh dear little frog!” she exclaimed to Bertie. “All this long while that Bertie has been away, I’ve poured my heart out to you. And now, do you know what? He’s coming back! Yes it’s true ! The Queen told me herself. And in a month’s time we are to be wed ! I’m so excited I just want to laugh and cry, dance and lie down, shout and keep my mouth shut, all at the same time.
“
And that’s how Bertie felt too. You see, he really believed that the wicked Queen had decided to turn him back into a prince so that he could marry Beatrice After all. You see, sometimes, when you really want something to happen with all your heart, you are ready to believe even the most unlikely fibs that people tell you.
When he told the little tadpoles about Bertie’s news, they swarmed around in circles and shouted
Yippeeeee !
Sadie the swan said, “Oh Bertie ! A true fairy tale ending. What on earth shall I wear ?”
And even Colin the Carp said,
“Congratulations”
Which is highly unusual, as he’s normally he’s ever so grumpy . Then he added”
“I don’t suppose any fish will be on the invitation list.”
The month went past terribly slowly for both Bertie and Beatrice. The day before the wedding was due to take place, Beatrice was looking out of her window when she saw a gold carriage and six white horses pull up outside the palace. And out of the carriage stepped Prince Bertie:
“Oh dear dear Bertie!” she said to herself “How I long to run and kiss your sweet face, even if it is a bit froggy like Freddie said.”
But Beatrice had been forbidden to speak to Bertie until the moment of her wedding. Both the King and Queen said it was a strict tradition and if she broke it, it would mean terrible bad luck for their future.
And Bertie also saw the golden coach arrive. And although he couldn’t see Norman step out – Elsa the Palace Cat did. She knows all the Palace Gossip and never misses a thing. She ran straight down to the pond with the news.
“Guess what Pond Life,” she murred, “The wicked queen has found somebody called Norman who looks just like Prince Bertie. Beatrice is going to marry him tomorrow and she will never know the difference.”
“I thought that something like that would happen,” said Colin. “If the Wicked Queen went to all the trouble of turning Bertie into a frog, why would she want to turn him back in a prince again? I should think that life up in the palace is much less annoying without Princes Bertie around.”
But Bertie wasn’t listening. He did not know what to do, but he knew he had to do something – so he hitched a lift back up to the Palace on Elsa’s back, and she took him all the way up to Beatrice’s door. She meowed and the Lovely Princess let her in.
“Oh Elsa, “ she said. “You’ve brought me my lucky frog. He probably wants some water. I’ll run a cold bath for him”
But Bertie didn’t fancy a cold bath. Instead, he hopped onto her dressing table and croacked his heart out. Beatrice was quite puzzled. He had seemed to glad when she had first spoken of the wedding, and now that her happiness was almost fulfilled, her frog was upset about something. If only she could understand what all his croaking was about?
That night, she could hardly sleep with excitement. In the morning the maids came in and helped her get into her wedding dress and look at her most radiant and lovely for the wedding. One of them took a broom and tried to shoe Bertie out of the bathroom, but Beatrice just managed to stop her in time before she really hurt the poor little frog. In fact, when she went down to her carriage, she ordered the maid to bring him to the wedding.
“Eee – Yuck ! “ she said as she picked him up.
Bertie had never felt so low in all his life. He felt even sadder than on the day he had been turned into a frog.
Here he was travelling in a golden carriage to his own wedding – only it wasn’t going to be HIS wedding – he was only going to watch his dear princess marry somebody called Norman who happened to look rather like him – and all because of the Wicked Queen !
As Beatrice entered the Church, the orchestra played “Here Comes the Bride”. Her Great-Uncle Prince Evan took her arm and led her down the isle to where Norman and the arch Bishop were already waiting for her. As she stood side by side with Norman in front of the alter she said ever so softly into his ear:
“Darling Bertie: It’s so wonderful that you are back. All the time you’ve been away, I’ve been wondering one thing:”
“And what was that my dear” whispered Norman, trying as best as possible to sound like Bertie. And princess Beatrice whispered
“Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?”
“I don’t know. Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?”
“Don’t you know? Because he had no body to go with. … alright then, which ghost has the best hearing?”
“I don’t know my dear. Which ghost does has the best hearing?”
“Why, it’s the eeriest of course!”
Just then, the Achbishop cleared his throat to get their attention. And he began the ceremenony. He asked Norman
“Do you, Bertie, take Betrice to be your lawful wedded wife.”
“And do you, Beatrice, take Bertie to love, honour and Obey”
And Beatrice replied.
“No Way!”
Why ever not? Asked the Bishop
“Because he’s not my Bertie. He’s an imposter! Guards Seize him!”
The wicked Queen jumped up and screamed”
“Guards. Do no such thing. My step-daughter’s gone out of her sweet tiny mind!
But the King said,
“No, No No. Guards Do Seize Him. ! She’s right you know – that isn’t Bertie. Whoever he is, he’s an imposter!”
And then speaking to the Queen he said,
“You See my dear: I had an inkling last night over dinner that there was something not quite right with that young man. I couldn’t put my finger on it – but now Beatrice has said he’s not Bertie – I see that she’s spot on. Do you recall him over dinner? I asked him what he had been up to while he was away, and he replied “Father, I wish I could tell you but it’s a secret.”
Well that’ was pretty strange because if there was one thing Bertie could never keep, it was a secret. And then later on, he only ate one helping of Chocolate Pudding. That was most unlike himself. I thought he must be off colour – nerves about the big day – but no, now I see that it’s because he’s not Bertie.”
And the wicked Queen was afraid that her secret would be found out. So she let the guards drag poor Norman off the palace dungeons. Later on, he escaped – but only after she turned him into a mouse.
When the guards had hauled the imposter out of the cathedral, there was a huge uproar and loads of confusion among the people. The King made a long speech to calm everyone down – in fact lots of them became very bored and either left or nodded off. While he was doing this, Beatrice spoke to her luck frog:
“Dearest little frog,” she said.
“I knew you were trying to tell me something – only I could not quite understand what it was. It was only when I stood side by side with the supposed “Prince Bertie” that I felt troubled. I sort of felt it wasn’t him. And so to make sure, I asked him two of Bertie’s favourite riddles. He didn’t know the answers – even though Bertie had told them to me thousands of times. Then I knew for sure that he was an imposter.
But it was you, dear frog, who first put me on my guard. I’m so grateful I could kiss you:
And with those works, she began to raise Bertie , sitting on the palm of her hand, to her lips.
Bertie closed his eyes and thought:
“Yes! The Lovely Princess Beatrice is about to kiss me at long last, and I will be turned back into a prince.”
But unfortunately, the Wicked Queen saw what was about to happen and
Kerpow !
She pointed her wand at Bertie and shouted
“Eat Slime” at the very second that Beatrice’s lips touched Bertie’s head.
And that was enough to prevent the kiss working, and poor Bertie didn’t turn back into a Prince – he remained a frog and had to hop off back to his pond.
But that evening he wasn’t too sad – because at least he had prevented a lovely princess marrying the wrong person. And there was still chance that one day he would turn back into the True Bertie and Marry his Princess.
89 Responses to “Bertie’s Double”
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Bertie says:
December 22, 2008 at 11:55 pm
I believe that Gryla is still in Iceland – so if you ever go there, you had better watch out for her.
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Michelle says:
February 2, 2009 at 4:27 am
**Answer me Bertie!!!!!**
When are you going to be turned back into a prince?
Oh! And what is going to be the last Bertie story ever?
Loyal fan
Michelle^^
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Bertie says:
February 2, 2009 at 9:03 am
Michelle, honestly, I don’t know the answers ! We’ll just have to wait and see.
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Nina says:
February 4, 2009 at 1:39 am
Dear Bertie,
When are you going to marry Beatrice?
Nina
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Molly says:
February 14, 2009 at 2:25 am
berties double is awsome!
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mary says:
February 20, 2009 at 10:27 pm
please make a story where Bertie terns back into a prince!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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NAME says:
March 28, 2009 at 10:27 am
but bertie why dont they make a story after you become a prince again? then you could come back and live with the lovely princess
beatrice.
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goldfish says:
July 2, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I’m not a grumpy carp. I’m just a fish in a tank.
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Anonymous says:
July 3, 2009 at 2:32 pm
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james says:
July 30, 2009 at 8:37 pm
bertie are you in iove with princess beatrice iove the story
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Kevan says:
July 30, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!The offical tornameant between Bertie and Norman!!!!
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Princess Emma says:
July 30, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Dear James, Yes~! Bertie is fall in love with Princess Beatrice.
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allison says:
August 19, 2009 at 10:29 pm
will prince Bertie turn back into a prince again
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Phoebe says:
September 30, 2009 at 10:53 am
Bertie, How do you write so good?Do you have a sercret how to write so good?
^^Phoebe^^
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Bertie says:
September 30, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Hi Phoebe, Thanks for the compliment about my writing. It’s really nice. As for tips, I think it’s important to know your characters, and to have a simple structure that builds slowly up to the most exciting part. But I sometimes which that I was better at atmosphere and verbal fireworks !
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Kevan says:
October 28, 2009 at 10:32 am
About you turning into a Prince,Bertie,I was thinking mayby we could have storys about you and Beatrice!!
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Kevan says:
October 28, 2009 at 10:34 am
Can I fight “Not so Prince Freddy?”
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Kevan says:
November 5, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Please!!!!!!!!!!:D ;-)
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Kendra and Kayla says:
November 26, 2009 at 5:22 am
Bertie, when are you turn into a prince again. Hope you marry Princess Beatrice soon.
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Lisa says:
December 2, 2009 at 3:19 am
This story was awesome. I really look forward to hearing about how Prince Bertie will turn back in to a prince.
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Alabama says:
December 2, 2009 at 11:01 pm
love this story its really good!!! (p.s. dont make fun of my name)
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Lillian says:
December 12, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Does Bertie the frog ever turn back into a prince?
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Abigail says:
January 7, 2010 at 2:51 am
Bertie how do you type ? Make Natasha tell the pond life that you are a prince and trip the queen for ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOYAL FRIEND,
Abiagil
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alaa says:
January 15, 2010 at 11:12 pm
really cool,and fun listening to storynory stories at bedtime!!!!!!!!!!!
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Cattien says:
January 17, 2010 at 8:11 am
bet u cant solve this:Little Miss Twindle has one eye and a tail.Whenever she goes through a teeny hole, a pice of her tail is left behind.
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susie says:
January 18, 2010 at 10:18 pm
I love your stories
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Will says:
February 9, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Astropup is AUASAME
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Kiley says:
February 19, 2010 at 11:43 pm
natasha has a wonderful voice
for telling stories.
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Kiley says:
February 19, 2010 at 11:43 pm
natasha has a wonderful voice
for telling stories.
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toni says:
February 27, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Why doesn’t princess Beatrice listen to storynory ’cause if she does she will know that Bertie is a frog and then she will kiss him and they will live happily ever after.
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Bertie says:
February 27, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Toni, if only somebody would give that princess an iPod !
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toni says:
February 27, 2010 at 11:06 pm
dear Bertie
Does princess Beatrice’s father know about the wicked stepmothers spells
PLEASE ANSWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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toni says:
February 28, 2010 at 12:21 am
PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gladys says:
February 28, 2010 at 8:54 am
reply i luv u Bertie
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Bertie says:
February 28, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Dear Toni, Beatrice’s father found out long ago about his Queen’s spells. It’s now rather a complicated family situation.
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Sam Woods says:
March 21, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Please make a story where Bertie turns back in to a prince.
Sam
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Lolita says:
May 27, 2010 at 11:20 pm
I like how – should I use her royal name? I don’t want to. Oh well. I like how “The Lovely Princess Beatrice” fools Norman. I’m glad “The Lovely Princess Beatrice” doesn’t marry Norman. He’s not nice. And if Bertie doesn’t turn back into a human prince, i’ll die.
Lolita
P.S I hope I didn’t offend Bertie by not wanting to say “The Lovely Princess Beatrice”
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micki says:
June 11, 2010 at 6:01 am
how old were you when you were terned into a frog and how meany years were you know :?: :???: :-?
:lol: :lol: :lol: :LO: oops :oops:
oh ya SO SAD :cry: :( :cry: :( :cry:
why i hate the wiked quin i want to kill her why berty why give me adress so i can slis her up
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micki says:
June 11, 2010 at 6:03 am
and ppl if you want to know how to do that do this : L O L : see :lol: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL
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and ppl if you want to know how to do that do this : L O L : see :lol: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL
how old were you when you were terned into a frog and how meany years were you know :?: :???: :-?
:lol: :lol: :lol: :LO: oops :oops:
oh ya SO SAD :cry: :( :cry: :( :cry:
why i hate the wiked quin i want to kill her why berty why give me adress so i can slis her up
I like how – should I use her royal name? I don’t want to. Oh well. I like how “The Lovely Princess Beatrice” fools Norman. I’m glad “The Lovely Princess Beatrice” doesn’t marry Norman. He’s not nice. And if Bertie doesn’t turn back into a human prince, i’ll die.
Lolita
P.S I hope I didn’t offend Bertie by not wanting to say “The Lovely Princess Beatrice”
Please make a story where Bertie turns back in to a prince.
Sam
Dear Toni, Beatrice’s father found out long ago about his Queen’s spells. It’s now rather a complicated family situation.
reply i luv u Bertie
PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dear Bertie
Does princess Beatrice’s father know about the wicked stepmothers spells
PLEASE ANSWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Toni, if only somebody would give that princess an iPod !
Why doesn’t princess Beatrice listen to storynory ’cause if she does she will know that Bertie is a frog and then she will kiss him and they will live happily ever after.
natasha has a wonderful voice
for telling stories.
natasha has a wonderful voice
for telling stories.
Astropup is AUASAME
I love your stories
bet u cant solve this:Little Miss Twindle has one eye and a tail.Whenever she goes through a teeny hole, a pice of her tail is left behind.
really cool,and fun listening to storynory stories at bedtime!!!!!!!!!!!
Bertie how do you type ? Make Natasha tell the pond life that you are a prince and trip the queen for ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOYAL FRIEND,
Abiagil
Does Bertie the frog ever turn back into a prince?
love this story its really good!!! (p.s. dont make fun of my name)
This story was awesome. I really look forward to hearing about how Prince Bertie will turn back in to a prince.
Bertie, when are you turn into a prince again. Hope you marry Princess Beatrice soon.
Please!!!!!!!!!!:D ;-)
Can I fight “Not so Prince Freddy?”
About you turning into a Prince,Bertie,I was thinking mayby we could have storys about you and Beatrice!!
Hi Phoebe, Thanks for the compliment about my writing. It’s really nice. As for tips, I think it’s important to know your characters, and to have a simple structure that builds slowly up to the most exciting part. But I sometimes which that I was better at atmosphere and verbal fireworks !
Bertie, How do you write so good?Do you have a sercret how to write so good?
^^Phoebe^^
will prince Bertie turn back into a prince again
Dear James, Yes~! Bertie is fall in love with Princess Beatrice.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!The offical tornameant between Bertie and Norman!!!!
bertie are you in iove with princess beatrice iove the story
I likyyyyyqhgruuhghgrq
I’m not a grumpy carp. I’m just a fish in a tank.
but bertie why dont they make a story after you become a prince again? then you could come back and live with the lovely princess
beatrice.
please make a story where Bertie terns back into a prince!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
berties double is awsome!
Dear Bertie,
When are you going to marry Beatrice?
Nina
Michelle, honestly, I don’t know the answers ! We’ll just have to wait and see.
**Answer me Bertie!!!!!**
When are you going to be turned back into a prince?
Oh! And what is going to be the last Bertie story ever?
Loyal fan
Michelle^^
I believe that Gryla is still in Iceland – so if you ever go there, you had better watch out for her.
Angie, I suppose you mean back into a prince, but thank you. Yes, sadly, still a frog. But on the bright side, that means more stories to come yet!
I really wish Bertie turns into a frog.
Bertie are you still a frog?
Natasha why was Bertie sad?
Angie
I am still true to Princess Beatrice, even though I’m living in the pond with the fishes and the tadpoles.
Bertie are you still with princess Beatrice?
Bertie where did Gryla go?
Angie, That’s really nice of you to say so. We are really pleased you like our stories.
Dear Natasha and ofcourse prince Bertie I really love your stories and I wana proof my love to you guys but how can I.Look guys I really want to thank you …A LOT!!
I will always read your fantastic books.
I like that story very much . I wish Bertie turn back to a frog .
Dear Jemma
Many thanks for your comments. The wicked Step mother is very good at doing things when people aren’t looking
Bertie How did everyone not see or
hear the wicked step mother?
im not together with prince beatrice
The story is very good! I like stories about Prince Bertie.
That’s alright Norman, I’ll let you off this time, but don’t try again to marry her or I might have to fight you.
no no no no no no no no no no no
that story was bad
ps.get a life
dear bertie sorry i was about to marry betreis
luved it ;-) :-)
oh thank you princess pearl
dear bertie i agree with pearl please make a story like that then you instead of making storys of yourself you can make storys of tim the tadpole or saddie the swan certainly not colin the carp.
i love this story
do you remember me, Bertie ?
if i was a witch too i would turn the queen into a frog and she would see how is the life of a frog.I think Princess Beatrice is quite smart
i love your stories
Daniela
this storys is so cool i love this story like bertie lol.
Hello Princess Pearl Thank you for writing the plot of “How Bertie Got Turned into a prince again” – it sounds very exciting, but it would be the last ever Bertie Story, so we we might have to wait for it a while.
bertie, in one of your storys, could you put me in and my name be,”princess pearl” and tell that I was a wizard and tell that I turned you back into a prince again and after that I was betries best friend and I married prince freddy and the name be”how bertie got turned Into a prince again ” and after that…..there be an II.
i like this story ther is lots of story but very nice i like all of them very nice n cook storyssssssssssss.
bye bill siso.
first, I don’t live in UK.
second, my tips for making the wicked queen learn.
1. call the wicked queen premium rate(collect as name”barny”)(at about 300£ per minute) and play your birddy story . after listening to your audio, she will rack up a phone bill of over 1100£. learn and turn birddy back into a prince poor woman.
birddy, please send me the link to the mp3 file for that music in the story .
QUE LARUITOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Dear Stephanie
Good question. Frogs have sticky tongues, and when a bug or a fly goes past, they stick it out and catch them. For vegetables they eat green slime off the pond. On special occasions they eat worms.
sorry I made a mistake when I was typing it should be what do frogs eat?
I love the story but I really want to know why don’t frogs eat?
Hi Annabelle
Poor Norman was a mouse for a few weeks, and almost got eaten by the Palace cat. But the Wicked Queen didn’t say the spell quite right, so it wore off eventually, and now he’s back to being normal Norman.
what happened to norman is he still a mouse?
oh, now my father told me “I like birddy”.
birddy, sorry to disapoint you but my father sayd “exnay, birddy” meaning he a. doesn’t want to listen to birddy storys and b. he doesn’t like birddy.
rubish stroy
Dear Bill the best way to find out all about me is to listen to my stories – it all began when I fell foul of a wicked queen with magical powers
Yours Bertie
hi birddy. this is Bill. please responde? I heard about this story service from my friend. please tell me a little about you.
Dear Lauren…. I only wish I could tell you..
hi um, i jut wanna know exsactly when is bertie turning back to a prince?
please answer back natasha
thanks!
Dear Sherilyn
One day there may well be a Bertie double II, but I think Jenny’s right (see above) we can only do that story when we’ve run out of Bertie! and that would be tricky for storynory – so all the Bertie stories end slightly in suspense about his future
it is unusual story. usually tales has happy endings but this ending is still a mystery.
Can you kindly please make the story Bertie’s Double 2 because it is not yet been answer the question when is he turning back into a prince and when is Princess Beatrice going to marry prince Bertie.
Thanks
Dear Maddi, I’ve lost track of the time – there aren’t any clocks or callenders here on the pond – so I can’t remember exactly how long I’ve been a frog.
Bertie, this story is wonderful! But how long exactly have you been a frog? Please tell me!
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Very vveerryy nice and interesting story.
lovely story
Hi Jenny
I only wish I knew when I’m when I’m going to turn back into a prince. There will come a time when there have been enough Bertie stories, but we used to have a saying in the palace when chocolate pudding was on the menu – too much is never quite enough.
I liked the story, but I have a question:When is Bertie relly going to turn back into a prince? I know it’s when people have heard enough bertie stories, but when is enough? Please answer back, Natasha.Thanks
I loved the storynory!
Hannah
the story is very interesting.my daughter doesn’t fall asleep untill the story is end.