In Disney's nearly 100-year history, there has been only one Black Disney princess — Princess Tiana in “The Princess and the Frog,” a 2009 animated feature starring Anika Noni Rose.
Pocahontas Introduced in 1995, Pocahontas is a Native American brown Disney princess. She has remained overshadowed by her white counterparts like Cinderella and Belle. Moanna Moanna is the brown-skinned daughter of a Polynesian island-village chief. This 2016 movie was much-loved by Disney fans.
Academy Award-winner Ariana DeBose will portray the first Afro-Latina princess. The trailer for Disney's latest animation film, Wish, is here, and we're already in love with the leading princess, voiced by West Side Story Academy Award-winning actress Ariana DeBose.
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What race is Elsa?
As for whether Elsa and Anna are white … the Northuldra are modeled on the Sami, an indigenous people scattered across northern Scandinavia and northwestern Russia who have faced a great deal of discrimination, but there's a lot of disagreement about the genetic and linguistic origins of Sami to this day.
Princess Esther Kamatari of Burundi is recognized as France's first Black model and exiled princess who left her home country behind after her father and uncle's assassinations. She spent the majority of her childhood as a royal princess in Burundi before fleeing to Paris to become a writer and model.
From the award-winning writing team of Shannon and Dean Hale and illustrator LeUyen Pham, here is the first in a humorous and action-packed chapter-book series for young readers who like their princesses not only prim and perfect, but also dressed in black. There are 10 books in this series.
Disney characters with brown eyes include Princess Jasmine, Snow White, Tiana, Mulan, Pocahontas, and Moana. Princess Jasmine eye colour is a gorgeous shade of brown so make sure to check out our range of brown coloured contacts if you want to cosplay this classic Aladdin character.
Anika Noni Rose opens up about her legacy as the 1st Black Disney princess. The actor who voiced Princess Tiana in the 2009 animated film "The Princess and the Frog" is opening up about her legacy portraying the groundbreaking character.
Sadé centers on a young African girl named Sadé who, when her kingdom is threatened by a mysterious evil force, accepts her newly discovered magical warrior powers to protect herself and her people.
While some claim Jasmine is Arab because the movie opens with a song called Arabian Nights, others believe that the architecture in Agrabah is clearly based on the Taj Mahal, making Jasmine Indian. It's a debate that has fueled speculation that in Hollywood, Indians and Arabs are interchangeable.
It was Nov. 15, 2009, and the 10-year-old from Mississippi was walking the red carpet at the world premiere of Walt Disney's animated musical The Princess and the Frog. The fifth grader beat out hundreds of girls to land the gig voicing the young Tiana, Disney's first animated African American princess.
Today, Charlotte is remembered as a faithful wife and a tragic figure connected with the king's mental illness. But some see her as noteworthy for another reason—they claim she was Great Britain's first Black or biracial queen.
Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a Black branch of the Portuguese royal house.
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.
