But the prince wasn’t happy. Although his parents showered him with golden toys every day – clockwork golden mice, golden swords and golden bicycles – and even offered to extract all of his teeth to replace them with golden ones just like they had (“A golden smile is a royal smile!” his father always reminded him), yet in his heart of hearts – though he would never have dared to admit it when his parents were around, yet he knew that gold wasn’t the most important thing in the world.