
There were plenty of princesses, but whether they the right princess he had great difficulty in discovering; there was always something which was not quite right about them.

Every time he found someone who said she was a princess he took her to the bedroom and laid her on twenty mattresses. In the morning he would ask how she slept. If she responds, "WHY ARE YOU IN MY BED!" then she was not the princess for him.
The Duke is Mine -- Eloisa James