During his visit to Paige's family home, the Prince is asked to name some famous people from his country of Denmark.  One of the names he mentions is Kierkegaard.

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), a renowned philosopher/theologian, once likened the Incarnation of Jesus Christ to a fairytale.  He described it as such:

"Suppose there was a king who loved a humble maiden.  The king was like no other king. Every statesman trembled before his power.  No one dared breathe a word against him, for he had strength to crush all opponents.  And yet, this mighty king was melted by love for a humble maiden.  How could he declare his love for her?  If he brought her to the palace and crowned her head with jewels and clothed her body in royal robes, she would surely not resist -- no one dared resist him. But would she love him?

She would say she loved him, of course, but would she truly?  Or would she live with him in fear, nursing a private grief for the life she had left behind?  Would she be happy at this side?  How could he know?  If he rode to her forest cottage in his royal carriage, with an armed escort waving bright banners, that too would overwhelm her.  He did not want a cringing subject.  He wanted a lover, an equal.  He wanted her to forget that he was a king and she a humble maiden and to let shared love cross the gulf between them.  For it is only in love that an unequal can be made equal."

John Eldredge writes of this quote, "The king clothes himself as a beggar and renounces his throne in order to win her hand. The Incarnation, the life and death of Jesus, answers once and for all the question, 'What is God's heart toward me?' "*

Obviously, whoever wrote the screenplay, The Prince and Me, must have been familiar not only with Kierkegaard, but his famous "fairy tale" as well.

*As quoted in The Sacred Romance by John Eldredge.