"Somebody Else's Prince" belongs to a collection of short stories, named The Other Side of the Sun, written by Evelyn Sharp (1869–1955) in 1900.

The King and the Queen built the wall higher whenever the princess grew to prevent her from seeing over it.

They thought it clever and wise to prevent the young princess form seeing the world that lay on the other side of her garden.

His name was Prince Amaryllis and he belongs to the Kingdom that lay on the other side of Princess Gentianella's wall.

His Kingdom had become invisible when the Prince's great-grandfather forgot to ask the Witch to dance with him.

A King's son must spend a full year in this garden and try to make the flowers grow.

Even after the day was over and the Prince would go back over the wall, they would remember more things that they forgot to talk about.

Prince Amaryllis explains to Princess Gentianella that if he had somehow made the flowers grow that he would have to marry the Witch's daughter, Anemone.

She could hear the voices of the kingdom shouting their excitement at the sudden flowers in the garden.

The wymp pointed out that now Prince Amaryllis can now marry Anemone, the Witch's beautiful daughter.

The Princess is once again saddened by the news, but the wymp reassures her.“'Don't you fret about that, my little dear,' he cried.

[7] The Princess meets various characters along the way, including a lamb, a woodcutter, a fish, a sea-serpent and an old woman, whom aid her in her journey after they are warmed by her kindness.

During her travels through the invisible kingdom, the Princess stumbles through a landscape of every season, apparently because “it is no use being particular about the time of year when there is no one to see what kind of weather you are having”.

[8] The Princess meets the old woman, who is running an experiment to see if there is anyone who is so brave of heart that the thistles do not hurt them.

The Princess helps to pick thistles which cannot bear to hurt so gentle of hands as hers.

As she continues, she meets a beautiful girl in the woods who is crying bitterly because her mother wants her to marry a prince when she is already somebody else's Princess.

It turns out that the beautiful girl is the witch's daughter, Anemone, who is in love with the Princess’ brother, Hyacinth.

Princess Anemone: The beautiful daughter of the Witch who is fed up with her mother's experiments.

Evelyn Sharp's characters are named after flowers She often talks of nature and gardens in her stories (see The Lady Daffodilia)