Tiana is another one of the oldest Disney princesses, though that's the case at only 19. Although her story ended in romance like most other Disney princesses, her main prize throughout the movie was furthering her career by opening a restaurant.
Bruno Campos as Prince Naveen, the prince of Maldonia. Naveen is a 20-year-old musician and playboy who has been cut off from his family's riches until he learns the value of responsibility. Randy Haycock served as the supervising animator of Naveen in both human and frog form.
Cinderella was a more mature 19 years old when she met her Prince Charming. Tiana, who was the first African Disney Princess, was 19 years old. Ariel is 16 years old when she decides she knows better than her father in The Little Mermaid. Rapunzel is 18 years old in Tangled.
Although multiple sources have claimed over the years that the character is 17, Henn estimated Belle to be in her early 20's. In an interview for Vanity Fair, Paige O'Hara stated to believe that Belle was the only Disney princess to be in her 20's.
They were given an official number in the franchise line-up based on the chronological order in which their films were released, starting with Snow White as the first and original Disney Princess, with Cinderella being the second, followed by Aurora and so on.
The next biggest age gap is between Hercules and Meg, with Hercules thought to be 18 and Meg 28 in the 1997 film. Although Meg continually rejects Hercules throughout the film, she relents at the end!
At only 15 years of age, Jasmine is already more resourceful than her two immediate predecessors, while sharing their same preference for assertiveness and empowerment over passiveness, traits echoed by several other Disney Princesses introduced throughout the decade.
Moana's age, 16, is less of an issue in her story as it doesn't include a romantic plot, but it still relies on a young girl to overcome dangerous challenges and save the world. Disney princesses have always had an age problem, with characters as young as 14 falling in love, defying parents, and getting married.
His skin is brown, but he isn't African-American. "A lot of moms had issues with that," Coleman said. "It felt like it was a slap in the face to black men." Coleman asked a Disney executive if Prince Naveen was Creole and was told that his background was made up; he's whatever ethnicity they have in fictional Maldonia.
The Fenner Brothers told Tiana she was "outbid" by someone, but considering it's unlikely that someone would bid on the mill in the same week Tiana placed her bid after twenty years of it being untouched, it is possible the Brothers just made that up in an attempt to avoid selling it to her.
Pin for Later: 21 Disney Prince Facts You Never Knew as a Kid Prince Naveen is the only prince to have a non-American accent. He is from the fictional kingdom of Maldonia, and voice actor Bruno Campos ad-libbed the accent as a combination of Portuguese and French.
For a rundown, the 11 characters of the official Disney Princess franchise are Snow White (age 14), Jasmine (15), Ariel (16), Aurora (16), Mulan (16), Merida (16), Belle (17), Pocahontas (18), Rapunzel (18), Cinderella (19) and Tiana (19).
Ariel's interests and desires are all relatable experiences for teenage girls, which is why she was portrayed as being 16 years old in the animated tale, with her love interest roughly the same age too.
Although Flynn Rider never mentions how old he is on-screen, the animators behind Tangled have confirmed (via Showbiz Cheat Sheet) that Flynn is 26 years old in the movie. When he meets the likable Disney princess Rapunzel in her tower, she's 17 years old with her 18th birthday right around the corner.
The original Aladdin story was actually set in China. Aladdin is one of the stories compiled in The Thousand and One Nights — a collection of Middle Eastern and Indian folk tales, however, it did not appear in the original Arabic text.
A recent The Mary Sue article even pointed out that Princess Jasmine from Aladdin is only 15 years old. In fact, a key part of the movie revolves around the fact that she must marry a prince before her next birthday, which happens to be three days away…and she is not on board.
We now learn why Hakeem is so broken and feels so powerless at times. To make a long story short, he and Tiana were expecting twins at one point, Prince and Princess. But only Prince made it because the nurse ignored Tiana's pain in the hospital and didn't do enough to get her help. The baby girl died.
The ninth Disney princess and the first of African-American heritage, Tiana dreams of opening her own restaurant, but an adventure in the New Orleans bayou awaits.
According to Sara Franks-Allen of ScreenCrush, Meg was excluded from the official Disney Princess franchise due to Hercules' underperformance in theaters, describing her as a "forgotten Disney princess".
During the course of his life, Heracles married four times. Heracles waged a victorious war against the kingdom of Orchomenus in Boeotia and married his first wife Megara, daughter of Creon, king of Thebes.
In their first meeting in the episode Hercules and the Aetolian Amphora, Meg wants to forget all about her ex-boyfriend (later shown to be Prince Adonis) and shows very little to no remorse, but manipulate the young Hercules into helping her steal a jar of Lethe water.
