Prince Michael lived long ago in the land of Hungary, in the east of Europe. His family's huge estate was out on the vast plains, where they gained their wealth from breeding and selling fine horses. At last the time came when Michael reached the age to get married.
“A wealthy young man like you should marry a noble lady,” said his mother. “A princess from the great city would be suitable. I will make enquiries.”
A few weeks later, Prince Michael's mother, the Grand Duchess Irma, said that there were two suitable princesses and two suitable great ladies living in the city of Golden Walls. She looked carefully at her son.
“You must have two new suits of clothes made and buy some jewellery as presents and call on the young ladies to see which of them you like best,” she said.
Prince Michael shook his head. “I don't think that is a good idea,” he said.
"If the young ladies know I am looking for a wife, they are sure to be on their best behaviour. I shall not see what they are really like at all. I will not go calling," continued the prince. “I will disguise myself as a poor boy and ask the servants and common folk how the princesses and great ladies behave to them.
The Arora is a community of the Punjab region closely related to the Khatri community. Aroras were mainly concentrated in West Punjab in modern Pakistan along the banks of the Indus River and its tributaries; in the Malwa region in East Punjab in India, although not greatly in what became the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 1901; in Sindh (mainly as Sindhi Aroras but there were many Punjabi and Multani speaking Aroras as well); in Rajasthan (as Jodhpuri and Nagauri Aroras/Khatris); and in Gujarat. In post-independence India, Aroras mainly reside in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Gujarat.