Is Mulan a princess?

[Tink561]

She's not included in a lot of the princess items. A lot of people I've met through our adoption process look high & low for Mulan princess stuff. There are some princess items that include Mulan but...she wasn't really a princess, right? I mean she's a heroine and all but at no point in the story did marry a prince did she?

So I wonder why she is included in some princess lines and not others?

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

good question i didn't think she was a princess either
Just like tink and she's sometimes included on the stuff too!

 

[TinkerbellLuvr7]

I think if you would mention "princesses" that she would be included but I think the movie came out after the "princesses" were "named" thus not including her. If you notice, the latest princess in the bunch is Jasmine which the movie came out in the early 1990s and Mulan wasn't until much later which makes her perhaps a "princess" but always included in the group with the others. Perhaps the movie wasn't a success as the others and so she is forgotten easily?

 

[Narnian_Princess]

She should be a princess... after all, I am a tough martial artist too and I'm still a princess!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

I was just discussing this with dh yesterday!!! We dont see how she is a princess but she is included in some of the princess merchandise and is in some of the princess stuff at the parks. I watched the movie very closely and I didnt get it.

BTW I LOVE this movie!!!

 

[AngieBelle]

She is not a princess in the movie, but she's sometimes included with the princesses to add ethnic diversity to the princess line. At least, that's my guess.

 

[SandraVB79]

She was in the Disney On Ice-Princess Classics show, so I guess Disney considers her as a princess (note: Alice, Pocahontas, ... were not in the show. Especially Pocahontas is weird, because as a historical person, she WAS a princess!)

ETA: Mulan was also there at the Princess dinner at DCA! And she talked French

 

[U2_rocks!]

She was never a princess. Even the guy she married in the end wasn't royalty - he was just leader of the Army (on his father's death). She's a heroine though, that's for sure!

 

[CheshireVal]

I thought I read somewhere that Mary Poppins sometimes shows up at princess breakfasts in the park. I'd consider Mulan a princess before Mary Poppins!

 

[JunieJay]

She's always been my favorite of the "princesses". In fact, along with Belle, she is really the only one of the princesses I actually like.

 

[Pixie Tales]

Not Technically, Although she IS at the princess breakfast in Epcot.

 

[MomofKatie]

Technically, the true Princesses (i.e, born or married into royalty) are:

-Snow White- StepMom was the Evil Queen, married the Prince
-Cinderella- born a commoner, married Prince Charming
-Aurora- Dad is King Stefan, married Prince Phillip
-Belle- born a commoner, married Prince (Beast)
-Pocahontas- Indian "Princess"- her father was the Great Chief of her tribe
-Ariel- her father is King Triton, married Prince Eric (so she's a Princess under the water and on land!)
-Jasmine- her dad is the Sultan, equivalent of the King in Agrabah. Married Aladdin, who wished to become Prince Ali (did he stay a Prince, though?)

Any others? I may have missed some.

 

[grlpwrd]

No, the true Mulan was not a princess either.

She is definitely a heroine and a role model.

 

[Tink561]

No, the true Mulan was not a princess either.

She is definitely a heroine and a role model.

I knew the true Mulan wasn't a princess I just wondered why Disney considers her a princess sometimes and not others.

I love finding Mulan stuff for my little girl and I have several books about the true Mulan. I'm just glad there is a Chinese heroine for little girls.