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The dishonest merchant Dhana from Hastināpura swindles the king of Śrāvastī by offering to weave a supernatural garment that cannot be seen or touched by any person of illegitimate birth. When the king is supposedly wearing the garment, his whole court pretends to admire it.
Two swindlers pull a fraud on him by telling him and his court that they will tailor an outfit that can only be seen by the wise. This results in nobody admitting that the emperor is, in fact, naked, up to the very end of the story, when a boy exclaims that “The Emperor Has No Clothes.”.
The Emperor's New Clothes A translation of Hans Christian Andersen's "Keiserens nye Klæder" by Jean Hersholt. Info & links. Many years ago there was an Emperor so exceedingly fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on being well dressed.
Having said this, they brought forth the elephant, seated the naked king upon it, and started him on his procession throughout the city. But the seven men took goods from his house and went away. And the foolish king remained without clothes.
In Juan Manuel's story, the clothes could only be seen by the true son of the man who was wearing them, so the king and his "sons" all pretend that they can see the non-existent clothes because confessing otherwise would prove that they are not of true royal descent.
Any moron should know that they are naked no matter what they are being told. The 11 year old: If you can't tell you are naked, you should not be king. Let the kid be king.
In the "Naked King" play by Eugeny Shwartz, which borrows plot elements from several of Andersen's stories, including this one, the "con-men" are heroes on a quest to rescue the princess from being force-married to the king, who's a moronic Nazi-esque tyrant.
