Who is the author of the fairy tale "The Emperor's New Clothes"?

"The Emperor's New Clothes" is a short tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about two weavers who promise an emperor a new suit of clothes that they say is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent – while in reality, they make no clothes at all, making everyone believe the clothes are invisible to them. When the emperor parades before his subjects in his new "clothes", no one dares to say that they do not see any suit of clothes on him for fear that they will be seen as stupid. Finally, a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!" The tale has been translated into over 100 languages.

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Marianne Frederick Halterman

My favorite fairy tale! HCA was amazing! Highly recommend the Danny Kaye movie about him!

joycekingsmith

Our Emperor in the White House is naked except for his orange tan.

Tobias Cordingley

The King was in his altogether, his altogether .... love the Danny Kaye film on Anderson’s life.

Cujo

Nobody knows this. Nobody knows my tailor. Did you know? Nobody knew. The best clothes ever. Including history. I've done more for fashion than anyone. Maybe even Lincoln and that hat.

Wendy Tubbs Motz

joycekingsmith, I've often thought of this fairy tale in relation to the orange one!

Chris Zwolinski

joycekingsmith, I though the Great Orange oen wrote the tale.... He's old enough. But I now realize, he's living the dream.

Monika M

joycekingsmith, 🤭🤔

Charli Robinson

joycekingsmith, ...isn't it funny that you can refer to the president as "orange" w/no repercussion but if Obama had been referred to as "black" then one becomes an instant RACIST even though he is black! Yeah, funny how that works.

Irene Townsend

Marianne Frederick Halterman, Agree and Loved the song that he sang about it in the movie

Dominique

I read this to my 2 year old boy

Char

tesla alset, I got it too

Char

dsneed, he's been opening up for ages just not all the time

Char

I remembered it

Corey Taylor

Seeing a tale like this, one must be glad that when it came to Anderson's stories, Disney only made movies based on "The Little Mermaid" and "The Snow Queen"(FROZEN)!