The best thing that Andrea Lynn says here is that the Fourth Story can stand on its own as a standalone story (instead of a subplot)...
There's this distant princess who is so clever and smart... she would only marry a man who could respect that. She wanted a man who would speak when spoken to, and not just stand there and be grand and stupid, but interesting!
So one day a man shows up, of course not to impress her, but just because he's heard how clever she is and he wants to listen to her and hear her cleverness... So she's like "this is my guy, this is what I want in a man," and she marries him!
I think that story is so great just on its own.
... there, thinking maybe Kaye was this man that the princess married; ... So they get there, they find out that the prince is not Kaye, but the princess is super generous, and she's like: "I respect what you're doing here; take my golden carriage, good luck on your journey!"
So next she encounters this group of robbers ...
(Nothing said about the prince and princess being in foreign countries on honeymoon)
