Disney’s
"Cinderella" is riding high at the box
office, and Belle is primed for a 2017 resurgence,
but not every Disney heroine with a crown gets to be an official princess.
In fact, the
rules for that 15-year-old club are as exclusive as the are confusing. Here’s
everything you need to know about the young women who occupy one of Disney’s
most lucrative franchises.
Since 2000, Disney princesses are now, technically,
their own franchises, marketed separately from the films that spawned them. Not
every princess from a Disney film or TV show is an official member of the
princess franchise. And at least one official Disney princess isn’t even royal.
The original characters to be officially crowned
Disney princesses were Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine,
Pocahontas, Mulan, and Peter Pan fairy, Tinker Bell
Each princess has her own official number in the
Disney franchise lineup. Snow White is the first and original Disney princess,
followed by Cinderella and Aurora, in that order.
After Tinker Bell left her throne, she was replaced by
Tiana, heroine of 2009’s "The Princess and the Frog."
All of the original Disney princesses are royal by
blood, or have married into royalty, except for one: Mulan.
In 2011, Rapunzel joined the official Disney princess
lineup. Though her 2010 film "Tangled" had CGI effects, she looks
more like a traditional cartoon in official princess merchandising
Though she’s based on a German fairy tale, Rapunzel
enjoyed her official Disney coronation in high British style at Kensington
Palace, now the official home of Prince William and Kate of Cambridge.
Disney’s first official princess from the Pixar film
lineup is Merida. The heroine from "Brave" made the list in 2013, a
year after her film debuted.
The main character from the Disney TV series
"Sofia the First" is definitely royal … but Disney does not list her
as an official princess.
Neither Elsa nor Anna, from the mega-smash 2013 film
"Frozen," is an official part of the Disney princess franchise.
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