"Yes, it's only in my dreams. But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true, and I've seen him so many times." - Princess Aurora hoping her dreams of meeting her dream prince come true
Princess Princess Aurora is a character in the 1959 animated feature film "Sleeping Beauty" produced by Walt Disney Pictures. She is the third official Disney Princess and the last to be developed during Walt Disney's lifetime.
Background
Appearance
Princess Aurora is a beautiful young lady, who was magically blessed with Beautiful Wavy "Golden" Blonde hair, Violet eyes, and lips "that shame the red rose". She has a tall, slender figure and her skin is fair and flawless.
In her peasant attire she wears a gray skirt with a white petticoat underneath it, a black bodice over a light gray blouse with long sleeves, also wearing a black headband and carries a purple shawl. After discovering her status as a princess, she wears a royal gown that is infamous for changing Blue and Pink due to Flora and Merryweather's disagreeing on the gowns color.
Personality
Princess Aurora is a sweet, sarcastic, and shy lady. At first, she is seen as a naive and carefree young woman due to being sheltered for most of her life. Princess Aurora is loyal to her aunts and almost always obeys their rules respectfully. Since she was raised not to talk to strangers, she was naturally startled and apprehensive when the Prince Phillip appeared in the forest. Though, she was drawn to him and she danced with him but soon after remembered her aunt's rule about not talking to strangers. Princess Aurora then decided to talk to him by arranging him to meet at her cottage, under the supervision of her aunts.
Disney History
Sleeping Beauty
Princess Aurora's blue gown.
Princess Aurora's parents named her after the Roman goddess of the dawn because she filled their lives with sunshine. Soon after she was born, she was presented to the kingdom at a christening, where she was betrothed to Prince Phillip, the son of King Stefan's good friend, King Hubert. Announced by the head messenger, Lord Duke, the three good fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, also came and bestow blessings on the newborn princess. Flora and Fauna give the infant princess the gifts of beauty and song, respectively. However, before Merryweather has the opportunity to give her gift, the evil fairy Maleficent arrives and angrily blames King Stefan and his people for not inviting her. To get back at the kingdom, she places a curse on Baby Princess Aurora. According to Maleficent, before the sun sets on Princess Aurora's sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. Maleficent cackles and disappears, leaving everyone shocked and horrified. Though she is unable to undo the curse, Merryweather could soften it. Instead of death, she would remedy the situation by placing Princess Aurora into an enchanted sleep, only to be awakened by true love's kiss if this was to happen.
Still fearful for the princess's safety, the three good fairies agree to hide the princess as a peasant for 16 years until the danger has passed. They take the baby to a cottage in the forest and raise her, disguising themselves as her mortal aunts and renaming her Briar Rose.
On Princess Aurora's sixteenth birthday, her "aunts" send her out into the forest, so that they can prepare for her birthday party in secret. While Princess Aurora is out, she dreams of meeting a handsome prince, while singing "Once Upon a Dream". At first, she is singing with her forest friends. But she soon meets Prince Phillip, who had followed her melodic voice. Not knowing who Phillip was, or of their betrothal, she believes him to be a stranger and attempts to leave. However, she dances with him for a bit and ends up falling in love. When he asked for her name, she then left, realizing she wasn't allowed to give her name to strangers. She does, however, tell him where she lives and asks him to meet her there that night.
At home, Briar Rose comes home to a splendid birthday party. She tells her aunts about the young man that she met, but is confused when they aren't happy for her. Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather reveal Briar Rose's true identity as Princess Princess Aurora, as well as the fact that she is betrothed. The fairies sadly explain that she can never see the young man again, not knowing that he was actually her betrothed. Heartbroken, Princess Aurora breaks into tears as she heads upstairs to weep on her bed.
The fairies bring the upset Princess Aurora back to her father's castle, take her to a room, and decide to leave her alone for a time. They conjure a crown and place it on her head so that she can eventually come to realize her royalty. While they are gone, Maleficent enchants the princess and leads her up an abandoned tower staircase. At the top floor within the empty room, Maleficent conjures a spinning wheel. The fairies realize the danger and frantically run up the stairs to stop Princess Aurora, but before they can, Maleficent forces the girl to prick her finger on the spindle. The fairies arrive but they were too late. They gasped as they found Maleficent, who mocks their inability to defeat her by revealing the fallen princess, and vanishes.
Heartbroken about their failure, the fairies place the sleeping Princess Aurora on a bed at the top of the highest tower and the decision was made to place a sleeping curse on everyone else in the kingdom until the spell on Princess Aurora is undone. While putting everyone else in the castle to sleep, Flora learned from Hubert that Phillip had been the man that Princess Aurora met. So the fairies go to the cottage to get Phillip, but are prompted to go to Forbidden Mountain, Maleficent's domain, after discovering that Maleficent and her goons have captured the prince. They rescue Phillip from the dungeon and arm him with the Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue. Then, they have to fend off Maleficent's minions before finally exiting the Forbidden Mountain and head for Stefan's castle, but Maleficent conjures a forest of thorns to prevent further entrance which is hacked through by Phillip's sword. Angered at this, Maleficent suddenly appears in their way and transforms herself into a dragon. After defeating the dragon with help from the fairies, Phillip enters the castle and walks up the staircase to the tower room where Princess Aurora is still sleeping. He gives her a kiss, true love's kiss, which finally awakens Princess Aurora, who smiles after she realizes that her betrothed and her love is the same person and breaks the curse, waking everyone else in the kingdom, including Stefan, Leah, Hubert, Sir Minstrel, and Lord Duke.
The pair go down to meet Princess Aurora's parents and Phillip's father, and Princess Aurora kisses King Hubert on his cheek before sharing a dance with Phillip. While the couple dance, Flora and Merryweather reignite their rivalry on their respective colors as the two bickering fairies relentlessly change the color on her dress with their magic. Princess Aurora's dress keeps changing colors as she and Phillip continue dancing and share another kiss, with the final words in the book, below the illustration of the couple romantically kissing (while the color of Princess Aurora's dress still changing from blue to pink) "and they lived happily ever after".
Appearances
• Keys To the Kingdom
• Sofia the First "Holiday in Enchancia"
• Maleficent
Songs
- I Wonder
- Once Upon a Dream
- Keys to the Kingdom (and Reprise)
- When You Love Someone
- If You Can Dream
- Waiting for my Prince (Disney Princess Tea Party CD)
- My Birthday Wish (Disney Princess Party CD)
- A Rose is a Rose (The Princess and the Frog: Tiana and her Princess Friends CD)
- Christmas with my Prince (Disney Princess Christmas Album)
- Beauty of the Season
- Christmas is coming (DPC Album)
- The Twelve Days of Christmas (DPC Album)
- The Princess Dance (Disney Princess Tea Party)
Gallery
Trivia
- She is the only true blonde Disney Princess, while Cinderella is a strawberry-blonde and Rapunzel is a natural brunette.
- She has violet eyes, and is the only princess with an abnormal eye color.
- Princess Aurora was the first Disney Princess to have a live-action remake, being featured in Maleficent.
- She is the first princess to have both parents alive, though they died in Maleficent, making her the only Disney Princess to have her parents alive in the original but deceased in a live action remake.
- Princess Aurora was the last princess to be created by Walt Disney.
- The definitive color for Princess Aurora's dress was supposed to be blue, however, when the Disney Princess franchise was created in 1999, they decided that her dress should be pink so they could differentiate her from Cinderella whose dress was changed from silver to blue.
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