Many fans wondered why Anna wasn't made a Disney Princess, considering she fits the bill: she's human, comes from royalty, is heroic, and even has an animal sidekick in Sven. However, Frozen 2 turned her into the queen after Elsa abdicated, so perhaps the studio always knew Anna wouldn't be a princess for long.
Shang and Mulan are both not royalty, just high-ranking members of the Imperial Army. This means that Mulan is not technically a princess, yet she is considered one when Disney lists their princesses.
Jane Porter at one point was considered to be part of the Disney Princess franchise, but she was later removed because her dress color scheme was likely too similar to Belle's. Also, the qualifications for being a Disney Princess changed over time, and Jane wasn't on the list.
She was once an official Disney Princess, until 2004. She was removed because her sales were financially disappointing. Along with it, Disney found it difficult to market her to younger children, due to the fact that she is represented with more mature themes in comparison to the other princesses.
Moana was not added to the Disney Princess list until 2019. She's the second princess to be a completely original character and story (Merida is the first).
Tinker Bell enjoyed only a brief reign as an official princess before abdicating. She's now part of a separate Disney Fairies franchise started in 2005. (Another consolation prize: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.)
However, the reason why Anna and Elsa are not part of the group of official Disney princesses is quite simple: they are extremely popular on their own, so they both have been given their own franchise, which also features the other Frozen characters.
Tinker Bell
Per Disney lore, this was because she committed an act of bravery worthy of a princess, but in reality, it was so the Mouse House could add a popular character to its lucrative line of toys. Commercial reasons were also behind Tinker Bell's removal as a princess.
Snow White is a fictional character and the protagonist from Disney's 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, as well as an official Disney Princess. Snow White is a princess of noble birth who is forced into servitude by her jealous stepmother, the Queen.
She is the daughter of a Native Chief, just like Princess Pocahontas. But because in Peter Pan animation movie she plays a secondary role, Tiger Lily is not considered an official Disney princess.
In the Disney film adaptation, Anna is depicted as the princess of Arendelle, a fictional Scandinavian kingdom, and the younger sister of Elsa (Idina Menzel), who is the heiress to the throne and possesses the elemental ability to create and control ice and snow.
Elsa, princess of Arendelle and heiress to the throne, is born with the ability to create and control ice and snow. As a child, she uses her abilities to create a winter wonderland to play in with her younger sister and best friend, Princess Anna. One night, Elsa accidentally harms Anna with her powers.
Elena de Avalor is Disney's first Latina princess.
Pocahontas was the first Disney Princess to have a visible tattoo!
She's not a princess, and she's not a villain." Egan believes that Meg undergoes "a much larger arch than the Disney princesses" as she experiences a change of heart, describing her as flawed and feeling that Disney not crowning her a princess makes her "more relatable".
Sleeping Beauty (French: La belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest; German: Dornröschen, or Little Briar Rose), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome ...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came out in 1937, debuting the very first Disney princess with Snow White herself. Voiced by Adriana Caselotti, she's incredibly of her time (i.e. dated af). Her whole deal is she's, like, really pretty.
Disney reveals first Hispanic princess, Princess Elena of Avalor.
Age 14: Snow White. Age 15: Jasmine. Age 16, Ariel, Aurora, Merida, Moana and Mulan. Age 17: Belle.
Lilo isn't an official Disney Princess, but she has the most tragic backstory of all, which the audience often ignores.
Inspired by Polynesian mythology, Moana is depicted as the strong-willed daughter of a chief of a Polynesian village, who is chosen by the ocean itself to reunite a mystical relic with the goddess Te Fiti.
The reason she is a queen is because her parents died and she was the first born. Aurora is crying because she was just told she has to marry a man she thinks she's never met.
Although Elsa's disability is encoded as a magical ice power, the language the film uses to talk about her condition maps on to the experiences of people with physical, mental, and intellectual disabilities in recognizable ways.