The story is a myth. In fact the story about the King and the Star and other similar myths originated in the offices of the National Denmark America Association (NDAA) where a handful of Danish nationals opened a propaganda unit called "Friends of Danish Freedom and Democracy", which published a bulletin called "The Danish Listening Post". This group hired Edward L. Bernays, "The father of Public Relation and Spin", as a consultant. Whether Bernays was the inventor of the story about the King and the yellow star is not known.