96 Fun Facts About Disney Prince

Which Disney prince was the first to be given a proper name in his own film?

Prince Phillip of Sleeping Beauty (1959) is the first Disney prince named on screen; Snow White's and Cinderella's princes go unnamed in their films, and Eric and Naveen came decades later.

In Disney's 1950 Cinderella, what is the King longing for when he orders the royal ball?

Grandchildren are what the King is pining for, even dreaming of them in his sleep, so he invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom in the hope that his son will choose a bride.

What name does Cinderella's prince go by in the 2015 live-action remake?

Kit is the name the prince gives Ella when they meet in the woods, where he hides his rank by posing as a palace apprentice; she, for her part, never gets the chance to tell him her own name.

Who played the prince in Disney's 2015 live-action Cinderella?

Richard Madden, then best known as Robb Stark in Game of Thrones, played the prince, who meets Ella while out hunting and persuades his father to open the ball to every maiden.

Which TV host provided the prince's singing voice in Disney's 1950 Cinderella?

Mike Douglas was a band singer with Kay Kyser when he sang 'So This Is Love' for the prince, uncredited; William Phipps spoke the lines, and Douglas found fame as a daytime talk-show host a decade later.

What is the name of Prince Eric's shaggy sheepdog in The Little Mermaid?

Max, an Old English sheepdog, sniffs out Ariel on the ship and again on the beach, where he recognises the now-human girl long before his master does.

Under what human disguise does Ursula hypnotise Eric into nearly marrying her?

Ursula takes the form of a dark-haired woman named Vanessa and uses Ariel's stolen voice to hypnotise Eric; the spell breaks when Scuttle's attack shatters the shell holding the voice.

Who plays Prince Eric in the 2023 live-action The Little Mermaid?

Jonah Hauer-King plays Eric opposite Halle Bailey's Ariel; the remake gives him an adoptive mother, Queen Selina, played by Noma Dumezweni.

Whose son is the prince betrothed to Aurora at her christening to unite the two kingdoms?

King Hubert is King Stefan's old friend; years after the betrothal the two fathers are toasting the wedding when Hubert's son rides in to announce he means to marry a peasant girl he has met in the forest.

What do the fairies arm Aurora's prince with?

Flora, Fauna and Merryweather arm the prince with the enchanted Sword of Truth and Shield of Virtue, and he hurls the sword into Maleficent's heart when she becomes a dragon.

Who plays Aurora's prince in the 2014 live-action film Maleficent?

Brenton Thwaites plays the prince; in this telling his kiss fails to wake Aurora, and it is Maleficent's own kiss that proves to be true love.

Which fairy-tale author wrote the 1697 story that Sleeping Beauty is based on?

Charles Perrault published it in 1697; when the Brothers Grimm retold the tale they called it Little Briar Rose, the name Disney's fairies give Aurora while they hide her in the forest.

Who voiced the Beast in Beauty and the Beast?

Robby Benson, a 1970s teen idol, got the growling part, and studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg kept animator Glen Keane from meeting him, for fear the character would end up looking like his voice actor.

By which birthday must the Beast earn Belle's love before the last rose petal falls?

Twenty-first is the deadline the enchantress sets with her rose: cursed for turning her away from his door, the prince stays a beast for ever unless he has loved and been loved before the last petal falls.

Which animal supplied the head and horns in Glen Keane's design of the Beast?

Keane was inspired by a buffalo head bought from a taxidermist, then added a lion's mane, gorilla brow, boar tusks, wolf legs and a bear's body.

What is the one physical feature the Beast keeps when he returns to human form?

Keane insisted the eyes stay human throughout so the audience could read his emotions.

According to a 1998 computer game, what is the Beast's real name as a prince?

Adam is the name a 1998 trivia game, The D Show, gave him; it has turned up on merchandise since, but the films never use it and Disney's own archivist says the prince has no official name.

Who provided the title character's speaking voice in Disney's 1992 Aladdin?

Scott Weinger spoke the part while Brad Kane sang it; Weinger was also D.J.'s boyfriend Steve on Full House, which later sent its cast to Walt Disney World, where D.J. keeps seeing his face on Aladdin.

Which movie star did animator Glen Keane finally settle on as the model for Aladdin's look?

Tom Cruise replaced Michael J. Fox as the model once the first, boyish Aladdin was judged too slight a match for Jasmine, so Keane made him older and broader in the shoulders.

Which rapper did animator Glen Keane draw on when designing Aladdin's outfit?

MC Hammer's billowing stage trousers were Keane's guide for Aladdin's baggy pants and for the way they move on screen.

What is the name of Aladdin's father, who left when Aladdin was an infant?

Cassim left to find a fortune that would lift his family out of poverty and lost them instead; the 1996 sequel reveals him as the King of Thieves, leader of the Forty Thieves, voiced by John Rhys-Davies.

Prince Naveen in The Princess and the Frog comes from which fictional country?

Maldonia's king and queen have cut their eldest son off from the family fortune, so Naveen lands in 1920s New Orleans broke, in love with jazz and looking for a rich bride.

Who voices Prince Naveen in The Princess and the Frog?

Bruno Campos, a Brazilian actor best known as the Carver on Nip/Tuck, voices him; the year after the film came out he enrolled in law school, and he now practises law instead.

Why does Tiana and Naveen's last kiss as frogs finally break the spell?

She is a true princess after marrying him: only a princess's kiss can break the spell, and by wedding Naveen as a frog Tiana becomes one, just after the Mardi Gras 'princess' ran out of time at midnight.

What is Flynn Rider's real name in Tangled?

Eugene Fitzherbert borrowed his alias from a swashbuckling storybook hero; the character returns in the short Tangled Ever After and the TV series Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure.

Who voices Flynn Rider?

Zachary Levi made 'I See the Light' his musical debut; he decided to audition once he knew he would provide the character's singing voice too.

In Tangled, what has the thief Flynn Rider stolen just before he hides in Rapunzel's tower?

A crown; Rapunzel then blackmails him into taking her to see the floating lanterns for her eighteenth birthday.

What is Kristoff's job in Frozen?

Ice harvester Kristoff lives in the mountains with his reindeer Sven, and at the end of the film Elsa gives the job a grand title: Arendelle's official Ice Master and Deliverer.

In Frozen, Kristoff's design draws on which traditional culture?

Sámi culture shaped Kristoff's look, and the film nods to it from its first notes: the opening chant, 'Vuelie', is by the Sámi composer Frode Fjellheim and draws on traditional joik.

Who voices Kristoff in Frozen?

Jonathan Groff, a Broadway lead from Spring Awakening, got only the brief 'Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People' in the first film; Frozen II made up for it with the power ballad 'Lost in the Woods'.

Hans of the Southern Isles cannot inherit his own kingdom because he is what?

Thirteenth in line behind twelve older brothers, Hans has no hope of a throne at home, so he courts Anna to marry into Arendelle's instead; the scheme only surfaces after she has accepted him.

Who voices Hans in Frozen?

Santino Fontana was spotted in Billy Elliot on Broadway by a Disney casting director; the year Frozen came out he was also earning a Tony nomination as the prince in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.

Which Disney archetype was Hans explicitly designed to overturn?

Critics have read his reveal as a warning about falling in love at first sight.

Who provided Captain Li Shang's singing voice in Mulan?

Donny Osmond sang 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' for Shang while BD Wong spoke the lines; Osmond had earlier auditioned to voice Disney's Hercules and missed out.

Which Hollywood star voiced Captain John Smith in Pocahontas?

Mel Gibson voiced Smith, and Christian Bale voiced Thomas, the young settler he hauls out of the sea in a storm; ten years later Bale returned to the story as John Rolfe in The New World.

Who plays Prince Edward of Andalasia in Enchanted?

James Marsden plays him as a cheerful send-up of the type; his stepmother Queen Narissa loses her throne the day he marries, so she keeps him busy hunting trolls.

Who voiced the adult Simba in The Lion King?

Matthew Broderick spoke the grown lion's lines but did not sing them: the adult Simba's singing voice belongs to Joseph Williams, lead singer of the rock band Toto.

Simba's story is often compared with which Shakespeare tragedy?

Hamlet, too, has a prince whose uncle kills the king and takes the throne; the parallel was built in when the villain, first written as an unrelated rogue lion, was rewritten as Simba's uncle.

In Disney's 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, how does the Prince first encounter Snow White?

He overhears her singing and falls in love; the following spring he kisses her in the glass coffin, breaking the Sleeping Death.

The Disney Princess brand began when executive Andy Mooney saw girls in generic princess costumes at what event?

A Disney on Ice show full of girls in non-Disney princess costumes showed Mooney, newly arrived from Nike, a demand going unmet, so the next morning he set his team to work on what became a multibillion-dollar brand.

In Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Aurora's prince fights Maleficent in which world?

Enchanted Dominion is the game's Sleeping Beauty world; the fairies free the prince and the Keyblade master Aqua from Maleficent's dungeon, and the two of them fight her together when she turns into a dragon.

Who originated the role of Prince Eric in the 2007 Broadway musical of The Little Mermaid?

Drew Seeley later played the part; on stage it is Grimsby's job to find Eric a bride after his father's death.

Who sang for the title character in Disney's 1997 Hercules, while Tate Donovan spoke the adult lines?

Roger Bart sang 'Go the Distance', the film's Oscar-nominated ballad, as the teenage Hercules while Josh Keaton spoke those scenes; two years later Bart won a Tony playing Snoopy on Broadway.

Under what fake princely name does Aladdin court Jasmine after using his first wish?

Prince Ali Ababwa arrives with a parade and a feathered turban, but on the magic-carpet ride Jasmine works out that he is the boy from the market, and he lies again, claiming he only dresses as a commoner.

In The Princess and the Frog, cut off from his family's fortune, Prince Naveen plans to marry whom for money?

Charlotte La Bouff is Tiana's wealthy best friend, and her father throws a masquerade ball in Naveen's honour; the 'prince' who courts her there is an impostor, the real one having just been turned into a frog.

In The Princess and the Frog, what is the name of Prince Naveen's scheming valet, who falls in with Dr. Facilier?

Lawrence lets Dr. Facilier turn him into his master's double, using a talisman charged with Naveen's blood, so that the impostor can marry an heiress and the witch doctor can take her family's fortune.

In Andersen's original The Little Mermaid, what does the prince do that Disney's hero never does?

Marries someone else: the prince takes a neighbouring princess for the girl who saved him, and their wedding is announced at once. The mermaid is left to dissolve into sea foam.

Aurora and her prince's duet in Disney's Sleeping Beauty reuses a ballet waltz by which composer?

Tchaikovsky wrote the Garland Waltz for his 1890 ballet The Sleeping Beauty, and Disney's songwriters put words to it as Once Upon a Dream.

Which lyricist joined Alan Menken to write the prince's sea ballad in 2023's The Little Mermaid?

Lin-Manuel Miranda stepped in for the late Howard Ashman, lyricist of the 1989 film. Wild Uncharted Waters was the first of the remake's new songs to be written.

Simba, cub prince of Disney's The Lion King, has a name that simply means lion in which language?

Swahili also gave The Lion King its carefree motto, hakuna matata, which means no worries.

Which Star Trek actor plays Cinderella's Prince in Disney's 2014 film of the musical Into the Woods?

Chris Pine performs the duet Agony at an artificial waterfall at Virginia Water Lake, a location director Rob Marshall found online.

Which Disney Princess film has no prince, because its heroine wins her own hand at archery?

Brave has Merida outshoot the three clan heirs competing to marry her, announcing that as her own clan's firstborn she may enter the contest too.

Which Disney animal is born heir to the Great Prince of the Forest and inherits the title himself?

Bambi learns that the stag who leads him home after his mother's death is his own father. He ends the film watching over the woods as the new Great Prince.

How does the prince finally kill the giant Ursula at the climax of Disney's 1989 The Little Mermaid?

Rams her with a ship: he commandeers a wreck and drives its splintered bowsprit through her, just as she is about to kill Ariel.

In Disney's The Little Mermaid, the prince's shaggy dog Max, who sniffs out Ariel, is which breed?

Old English Sheepdog Max is the only character in the human world who senses what the prince's hypnotic bride really is, growling at her on the wedding ship.

Which actor and musician voices the adult Simba in Disney's 2019 remake of The Lion King?

Donald Glover voices the grown lion prince opposite Beyoncé as Nala, while James Earl Jones returned as Mufasa from the 1994 film.

In Disney's Beauty and the Beast, what act of cruelty gets the prince cursed by an enchantress?

Turning away a beggar who asked for shelter from the freezing cold is his undoing. He shuns her for her appearance, and she reveals herself as an enchantress.

In Disney's Beauty and the Beast, which room of his castle does the Beast give to Belle as a gift?

The library wins over the book-loving Belle, and as their friendship grows the Beast learns kindness and manners from her.

Which Disney villain stabs the Beast on his castle rooftop, then loses his footing and falls?

Gaston strikes moments after the Beast, roused by seeing Belle return, has chosen to spare his life.

In Disney's Aladdin, how does the hero spend his last wish rather than make himself a prince again?

Frees the Genie: Aladdin keeps an early promise, even though the Genie himself urges him to wish his royal title back and marry Jasmine.

In Disney's Tangled, which royal guard horse pursues the thief Flynn Rider before becoming his ally?

Maximus ends up helping the thief he was chasing to break out of jail, then carries him back to Rapunzel's tower.

In Disney's Tangled, what of Rapunzel's holds enough magic to bring the dead Flynn Rider back?

Her tear still carries some of the golden flower's magic, even though her hair has just lost its power.

Which character in Disney's Frozen has his side of every conversation voiced by Kristoff?

Sven got his borrowed voice because director Jennifer Lee talks for her cat at home. Co-director Chris Buck admitted he does the same for his dog.

In Disney's Frozen, which creatures raised Kristoff and try to marry him off to Anna in song?

Trolls brought Kristoff up in the wild, which is why he lacks social graces. Their song Fixer Upper insists his values are sound all the same.

In Disney's Pocahontas, which warrior, too serious for her taste, is the heroine expected to marry?

Kocoum is shot dead by the young settler Thomas after attacking John Smith, and it is for that death that Smith is sentenced to die at dawn.

Which Frozen II solo for Kristoff parodies 1980s power ballads, down to its music-video staging?

Lost in the Woods was inspired by singers such as Bryan Adams and Jon Bon Jovi, and its sequence was animated to resemble music videos of their era.

Which Frozen duet for Anna and Hans sounds romantic but was written to double as a villain song?

Love Is an Open Door took on its double meaning once the writers turned Elsa into a tragic hero, which left Hans free to become the film's villain.

Which actor spoke Li Shang's lines in Disney's Mulan, a role Jackie Chan took for the Chinese dubs?

BD Wong voices the young officer who drills Mulan's unit, turning raw recruits such as Yao, Ling and Chien-Po into trained soldiers.

Which Titanic actor voices the diplomat John Rolfe in Disney's Pocahontas II?

Billy Zane's Rolfe is sent to bring Chief Powhatan to England, falls for his daughter instead, and stands up to King James on her behalf.

Which exiled lion, trained as an assassin, falls for Simba's daughter in The Lion King II?

Kovu is raised by his mother Zira to kill Simba so she can usurp the throne, but he starts to rethink the mission as he grows close to Kiara.

Which Wicked star plays Nancy, the New Yorker who marries Prince Edward in Disney's Enchanted?

Idina Menzel's Nancy is a fashion designer who starts the film as the lawyer Robert's girlfriend and ends it married in fairy-tale Andalasia.

Which actor voiced both Prince John and his brother King Richard in Disney's 1973 Robin Hood?

Peter Ustinov voices both lion brothers, the cowardly Prince John and the rightful King Richard, and he dubbed Prince John himself for the German version of the film.

Prince Ben, son of Belle and the Beast, is about to be crowned king in which Disney Channel film?

Descendants has Ben invite four children of banished villains off the Isle of the Lost to attend school in his kingdom.

In Disney's 2015 live-action Cinderella, what does the prince claim to be when he first meets Ella?

A palace apprentice is his cover story when Ella rides into the royal stag hunt, so she gets to know him without learning who he is.

Which Hellboy star voices a Stabbington brother, one of the crooks Flynn Rider betrays in Tangled?

Ron Perlman's crook and his brother are double-crossed by Flynn after the palace theft, so they later strike a deal with Mother Gothel to hunt down Rapunzel.

In Disney's Tangled, what does the dying Flynn Rider use to cut off Rapunzel's magic hair?

A shard of glass does it. He cuts the hair rather than let Rapunzel trade her freedom for his life, and Gothel withers away once its magic is gone.

In Disney's 1950 Cinderella, which official is ordered to try the glass slipper on every maiden?

The Grand Duke nearly fails: the stepmother trips his footman so the slipper shatters, and only Cinderella producing its twin saves the day.

In Disney's Sleeping Beauty, what does Maleficent conjure around the castle to stop the prince?

A forest of thorns surrounds King Stefan's castle until the prince hacks through it. The studio's Xerox process was partly used to animate the sequence.

In Disney's The Little Mermaid, which loyal steward is charged with finding the prince a bride?

Grimsby has no stomach for the sea and scoffs at sailors' tales of merpeople, yet he grows fond of the mute girl from the beach and nudges the prince her way.

In Disney's The Little Mermaid, which birthday present for the prince ends up in Ariel's grotto?

A statue of him in a dramatic pose is commissioned by his steward, and the prince plainly dislikes it. Flounder later gives it to Ariel as a gift.

Which superhero did the voice of The Little Mermaid's prince go on to play in a 1990s cartoon?

Spider-Man was voiced through the 1990s animated series by Christopher Daniel Barnes, who had recorded Disney's seafaring prince while still a teenager.

In Disney's 1992 Aladdin, which haughty suitor of Jasmine shoves Aladdin into a mud puddle?

Prince Achmed is riding to the palace when Aladdin steps in to protect two street children who cross his path. Jasmine turns him down all the same.

Which singer, later Curly in Broadway's Oklahoma!, voiced the Prince in Disney's 1937 Snow White?

Harry Stockwell won the part in 1936 after Kenny Baker had been considered, and his sons Dean and Guy both grew up to be actors.

Which number does the Prince perform in Disney's Snow White, a tune Dave Brubeck later recorded?

One Song is heard four times in the film, and its melody was most likely inspired by a piano piece by the Polish-Russian composer Henryk Pachulski.

Which actor took over as Aurora's prince for Disney's 2019 sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil?

Harris Dickinson stepped in because the first film's actor had scheduling conflicts. The sequel makes his prince the son of King John and Queen Ingrith of Ulstead.

Which actor first played the Beast, opposite Susan Egan, in Broadway's 1994 Beauty and the Beast?

Terrence Mann got something the animated Beast never had, a solo of his own: If I Can't Love Her was added to make him a fuller character.

Which light-opera performer was picked from twenty singers to voice Disney's Sleeping Beauty prince?

Bill Shirley made audition records with Mary Costa, the voice of Aurora, so that Walt Disney could judge whether their voices complemented each other.

In early story outlines for Disney's Snow White, what was the Queen going to do to the Prince?

Lock him in her dungeon: she would have made the skeletons of earlier victims dance for him, before Snow White's bird friends helped him escape.

Which actor played Rapunzel's Prince in Into the Woods and Prince Anders in Disney's 2019 Aladdin?

Billy Magnussen only landed the first of those roles because Jake Gyllenhaal dropped out, and the second was a suitor newly created for the remake.

Which new solo did Alan Menken and Tim Rice write for the Beast in Disney's 2017 live-action remake?

Evermore was written only after Menken gave up his plan to reuse If I Can't Love Her, the Beast's number from the Broadway show.

In Disney's Frozen Fever, what chore is Prince Hans doing when a giant snowball knocks him flat?

Cleaning out the stables is his lot back in the Southern Isles. The snowball, launched when Elsa sneezes into an alphorn, pitches him into a cart of manure.

In Disney's Pocahontas, John Smith is wounded shielding Chief Powhatan from whose musket shot?

Ratcliffe fires even though both sides have just stood down, and his own settlers turn on him for hurting their comrade.

In Disney's 2025 live-action Snow White, what is the new love interest who replaces the Prince?

A bandit leader played by Andrew Burnap, he is caught stealing in the castle, and Snow White frees him after the Queen has him tied to the palace gates.

In Disney's Enchanted, which chipmunk, Prince Edward's travelling companion, cannot speak once he reaches New York?

Pip regains his ability to speak only on returning to Andalasia, where he writes an autobiography about his time in the real world.

In Tangled Ever After, which chameleon loses the rings at Rapunzel and Flynn Rider's wedding?

Pascal is one of two ring bearers, and the short follows their frenzied search to get the rings back before the ceremony needs them.

The boy who voiced cub Simba in Disney's 1994 The Lion King was then starring in which sitcom?

Home Improvement cast Jonathan Taylor Thomas as middle son Randy Taylor from 1991, and he left the sitcom in 1998 to concentrate on his studies.