When the older princess arrived, the talk of the court was such that the queen of all the islands feigned illness in order to avoid meeting her and sent her home.
The mother obeyed and warned her daughter to stay inside for six months, to avoid the queen's magical powers.
The next day, a great fleet arrived, and the Prince of the Emerald Isles appeared, telling her that he had been the dog, and then the old man, but now a benevolent fairy had freed him.
The original tale, titled La Reine de l'isle des fleurs ("The Queen of the Island of Flowers") was published without attribution of authorship in a volume of Le Cabinet des Fées, a French compilation of literary fairy tales, first published in the 18th century.
[2] However, scholarly research points the authorship to Le Chevalier de Mailly,[3][4] who published anonymously the book Les Illustres Fées.