Disney Princesses vs. Real History 1/2

[@iantempleton313]

“She had a happy relationship with her Prince Charming…” Awww 🥰 “..her maternal uncle…” Wait, what?! 😳

[@chrisgeenadriver1631]

Oh I have missed all the incest in the royal families.

[@Firebender554]

That's royalty for ya

[@dbzgal04]

Very gross indeed, but incestuous marriages were a norm in royalty for centuries.

[@mitsume_slay]

At least they were happy rhioir

[@mediocremaiden8883]

Thats Spanish Habsburgs For Ya, actually

[@thelisapisa]

There is actually a princess much closer related to the real Snow white than Maria Anna of Bavaria. Her name was Margaretha of Waldeck (1533-1554. She was 21 when she died and it was rumored that she was indeed poisoned by orders of her stepmother who couldn't stand her. It's a highly debated theory but quite interesting if you look closely at it.

[@cocoaorange1]

Very sad story all around.

[@chykim1]

Make your own page and then post it....😐

[@KahoriFutunaka]

The stepmother is very unlikely to have ordered Margarethas death as she died years before Margaretha. Margaretha herself thought she was poisoned because future Philip II of Spain had fallen in love with her when he was instead supposed to marry Mary I of England ("Bloody Mary"). The fact that her father wanted her to speak out in favour of pardoning landgrave Philipp of Hesse, who was being held prisoner in Brussels (where Margaretha served as a lady in waiting if I translated it correctly) for opposing Philipp II's father Karl V might also be a motive.

[@susanstorm7910]

Omg yaaaaaas

[@susanstorm7910]

Margaretha is the true rl Snow White

[@geeker6350]

The true story of Pocahontas is so heartbreaking.

[@stacyk123]

It makes me a little angry that she's buried in England. She should be returned and buried in her homeland.

[@symoneayanna3570]

I did a 7000 word essay about her in 6th grade not knowing her true story, I was so sad when I found out the truth as a little girl but her real story had to be told.

[@middlelle]

Most Native American tribes abhor Disney’s depiction of Pocahontas, especially as a Halloween costume.

[@Scarlett59319]

@@middlelleI feel so terrible now, back when I was like 5, my grandma (RIP) had two Pocahontas costumes, one for me a 5 year old and my 2 year old sister. I really didn’t know how awful it was to do that. We just really loved Pocahontas tbh! I would like to say that we are proudly part native Americans, my sister and I just unfortunately aren’t as educated as I guess most people are.

[@kant.68]

@@middlelle A costume is just a costume

[@Green4CloveR]

I always thought Disney was hypocritical to claim copyright over their princesses when they plagiarized them from history and other people’s story books

[@cakt1991]

Most of them are from public domain works, so they’re fair game to adapt, and inspiration is distinct from plagiarism. But it is quite ironic how few of their stories are original, and yet they’re so fiercely protective of their copyright.

[@justinperez2057]

I think they only copyright the specific design of their princesses. If you copy the design, then that is trouble for you.

[@cakt1991]

@@justinperez2057 that’s true. That’s why other companies can do their own versions of popular tales, and adaptations of, say, Cinderella, are so common. A famous example: Shrek and the way it spits in Disney’s face was basically inspired by Jeffrey Katzenberg’s bitter parting with them, but Dreamworks avoided lawsuits because they could argue they were just doing their version of popular public domain fairytale characters.

[@FireCat34]

It's an unhappy truth hypocritical and big business hand and hand.

[@davidstenow5055]

I think it’s very important to keep strict claims on intellectual property, but especially for a company like Disney. Creating expensive animated features is risky af and they rely on the exclusive rights to their likenesses in merchandising. I think we’ve all seen some atrocious bootleg Disney toys etc, and just imagine how it would be if Disney didn’t have an army of lawyers to protect their IPs. Of course, they don’t claim copyright for the literary characters of Snow White or historical persons like Pocahontas.

[@rilianelucifen876]

Honestly, it's not hard to find potential parallels to Belle in history. Plenty of historical princesses ended up married to old or ugly men that they initially hated, but eventually grew to love; Mary II is my personal favorite example.

[@sophielophey8686]

The Beauty and the Beast and other folktales like it seem to have been originally told to young girls to prepare them for arranged marriages in which there was no guarantee that they would find their husbands attractive or loving.

[@zarathustra642]

William III found dead 🤣💀🤣💀

[@dianaolivia2947]

Emperor Alexander III of Russia and his wife Marie Feodorovna were other examples of beauty and the beast

[@Scarlett59319]

@@sophielophey8686wow that is so true!! 😅

[@cocoaorange1]

There were princes and noble men, who married homely women too, due to wealth.

[@ramonaa8962]

While she’s speculated to be the inspiration of the Ballad of Mulan, I’d love to believe that Fu Hao was part of what sparked that legend. She was the second Queen Consort of King Wu Ding during the Shang Dynasty, the High Priestess of the kingdom, and an acclaimed military general. She is also the first woman to be written down in Chinese history before her death in 1200 BC.

[@Hoejfeld]

Ariel can both be set in Denmark and the Caribbean. Denmark had a colony in the Caribbean consisting of the islands Saint Thomas, Saint John, and Saint Croix (Denmark sold them to the US in 1917) but they were under Danish rule and monarchy at the time where Hans Christian Andersen wrote the fairytale.

[@zerotodona1495]

Literally is based of his white wife. She isn’t a black.

[@cacovie]

@@zerotodona1495 Mermaids aren't real, also he was gay.

[@LaneyEP]

@@zerotodona1495the story is actually about him ! Ariel is Hans and amid his rejection from a man he wrote Little Mermaid hope this helps

[@6FreedomFighter6]

If Hans was gay , he was madly in love with a woman that was a beautiful famous opera singer at the time . History is complicated.

[@6FreedomFighter6]

Jenny Lind was her name and she was a redhead 👩‍🦰 and was pursued by many famous male personalities at the time . The Little Mermaid 🧜🏻‍♀️ live remake was awful and complete flop . People wanted to see the original story portrayed by actors and an entertaining plot like the original. Disney produced a woke piece of junk , period !

[@1sara566]

When talking about a real life Mulan I always have to think of Milunka Savic. She is no Princess and was from Serbia, but her story is so similar During the First Baltic War, her brother was recruited for the army but for unkown reasons Milunka went in hie place. She climbed the ranks of the army until the Second Baltic War, in which she was shot and discovered to be a woman. Stunned the military personnel was confused ob how to handel this situation, as she was a great soldier. They decided to let her stay in the army and she eventually joined the iron squadron, one of the toughest of the squadrons. She fought in WW1 and became the most decorated female soldier if the war, receiving awards from Serbia, Russia, France and many more. After the war, she lived in Poverty and was manly forgotten about. That was until a half a century later a remembrance ceremony was held, where she showed up having more medals than most of the men

[@NK-pr9xy]

That sounds exactly like Mulan, and she's an actual real person (whereas it's quite likely Mulan is not). Thanks for sharing.

[@annafirnen4815]

Didn't you mean BALKAN wars not Baltic?

[@egleprasceviciute2787]

Baltik wars? Thers no such thing in that period of time. Balkan wars maybe

[@1sara566]

@@egleprasceviciute2787 You are right, I meant to say Balkan wars. I must have misremembered

[@lilacgirl-z8w]

Never heard of her but interested in her life's story.

[@anastasia_editz]

1:31 Snow White 3:14 Cinderella 7:40 Aurora 11:01 Ariel 15:10 Belle 18:07 Jasmine 21:26 Pocahontas 24:57 Mulan

[@LiliannEnder]

Epic

[@fangirldreamer748]

In Urdu and Arabic the name would be, called Yasmine I instead of “Jasmine” .

[@theyearofdarian]

“The color of a cast member’s skin is not what will make or break so called historic accuracy.” A mic drop if I’ve ever heard one.

[@emilypresleysee]

Playing devil's advocate here: for a lot of people, it's not about historical accuracy, it's about feeling like something you love is being replaced, ergo, it was "wrong", "bad", or "not good enough" in the first place. Quite frankly, I think it's lazy of Disney to recycle older princess movies they've already done and just change the princess' race. They should invest time and money in creating new movies for kids of today to fall in love with and leave the older ones in the past. Is it wrong to let everyone have their own instead of taking from one to give to the other?

[@spareaccount1969]

@emilypresleysee Disney hasn’t repeated any princess films? Unless you are talking about filming live actions. Which would be absolutely ridiculous to call that lazy. It takes an inane amount of love & work to take something as whimsical & unrealistic as an animation and then put it into a live action whilst successfully capturing the same fairytale vibe. Look at the sheer amount of work that went into the Disney Aladdin Live Action remake. Creating Live Actions was a smart move, both for brand longevity and also generally because it allows future generations to enjoy these stories whilst also updating them so they are palatable & enjoyable for people in modern times where our values & understanding of the world is different than decades ago. It’s only natural that the old animations will become outdated as time passes / even though they are beloved classics - after all, who still watches the originals such as Betty Boop and OG Mickey Mouse… Nobody. I love all of the animated movies dearly - however turning them into live actions was special, it took massive amounts of creativity - it’s not “Lazy”. It really amazing to see the evolution as a now adult, who grew up with the animated films.

[@made-line7627]

Well said 👏🏻​@@spareaccount1969

[@happygolucky9004]

​@@spareaccount1969I completely disagree, it was creatively lazy to create all those live action remakes. They didn't want to take a risk on new material and relied on nostalgia from their base customers. They did pour money into it but it was more of a sure things that people would go, if only for curiosity. However, a lot of the writing was bad, casting not great, and the animation not the best. The animations were already masterpieces and the live actions didn't have the same impact. I would have preferred they make new movies based on different fairytales.

[@shelbysittig1047]

@@spareaccount1969it is laziness to take an established character and turn them into a black character. There are plenty of stories of mermaids in Africa that could have been better told with a black character. Atlantis was a Greek telling not an African retelling. To me that is laziness. Gaining money off of established characters just changing the color of their skin is a slap in the face to those that have kept the history and the story alive for so long. 🤔

[@Elphaboy]

I can not even begin to describe how much I appreciate that you called Belle’s gowns “prom dresses” 👏👏👏👏👏👏 thank you that’s exactly what they were!

[@Laura.hrtmnn]

There are actually 2 different theories by German historians about Snow-whites origins: According to Eckhard Sander, Snow White can be equated with Margaretha von Waldeck, who was born in Hesse, Germany in 1533. She lived near a mine, in which children were often used to explore the narrow corridors. Those children would develop deformities and growth disorders, due to the lack of sunlight and stay small throughout adulthood. The girl had a love affair with Philip II of Spain, which the court hindered in order to enforce an agreed marriage. The connection was made possible by some miners who belonged to the Spanish court. In order to get married in Brussels, she had to travel through the "Siebengebirge" (Seven-Mountain Range). She died there in 1554 and rumor has it that she was poisoned. According to researcher Karl-Heinz Barthels, Snow White can be equated with Maria Sophia Margaretha Catharina von Erthal, who was born in Lohr in 1725. She was the daughter of a magistrate of the Kingdom of Saxony. The man lost his first wife and then married a woman who wanted to benefit from her husband's position in order to bring power to her firstborn. Her contempt for the young Maria was so great that she once left her in a forest near some mines where small people or children worked. The family also owned a factory that manufactured glass and mirrors. The girl died of smallpox and the population's dislike of the stepmother turned the event into a folk tale.

[@susanstorm7910]

Margaretha von Waldeck is Snow White, like how can anyone think otherwise 😊

[@symoneayanna3570]

Very interesting thanks for the insight!

[@KahoriFutunaka]

I am afraid you got some details about Margaretha von Waldeck wrong: She was born at Schloss Altenwildungen in Hesse, close to a city which today is called Bad Wildungen. She had to travel through the Siebengebirge to GET TO Brussels, where she did die in 1554, believing she was poisoned because future Philip II of Spain had fallen in love with her when he was instead supposed to marry Mary I of England ("Bloody Mary"). The fact that her father wanted her to speak out in favour of pardoning landgrave Philipp of Hesse, who was being held prisoner in Brussels for opposing Philipp II's father Karl V might also be a motive. But I am so glad someone mentioned her. For us Hesse fairytale enthusiasts Margaretha IS Snow White and Bad Wildungen offers tours guided by an actress dressed as Margaretha who explains the connections between history and fairytale. Margaretha also had a stepmother, but according to historical notes she was a very nice woman who treated Margaretha and her siblings well. Someone once tried to claim the stepmother was the one having Margaretha sent to Brussels to be murdered there (so people would not suspect her as the culprit), but the stepmother died years before Margaretha did, ruling her out as a suspect.

[@Laura.hrtmnn]

@@KahoriFutunaka Interesting! I'm gonna edit the Comment!

[@nessierey6721]

I read that she supposedly paid a forester to kill Maria on her woodland Walk. She escaped using a mountain trail and got to a village where they made glass. Got married & died later.

[@nuotatorre8741]

This is such a great idea for a video. It's often just their original, often Grim(er), stories that get dug up, but making a video about their somewhat real life couterpart is quite genius.

[@LindsayHoliday]

Thank you!

[@v-town1980]

Genius? Lol.

[@cocoaorange1]

I agree, nice change of pace.

[@mediocremaiden8883]

@v-town1980 Oh sorry, Genius means: exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability. As defined by Webster's Dictionary. It's another word for "Smart" no worries buddy, you'll pick up reading in no time 😉

[@lilacgirl-z8w]

I've come across several candidates for cinderella.

[@MysticDojo]

12:15 just want to correct when you said none of the Caribbean islands had monarchs of their own, Haiti had a short lived monarchy with Jean-Jacques Dessalines as emperor after a slave uprising from France as the enslaved outnumbered the french 10-1. And Henri Christophe was installed as the ruler of the kingdom of Haiti. Not to mention the Taino spread out into various tribes that were considered kingdoms within the Caribbean and followed matrilineal succession. One famous princess Anacaona, became ruler of one of the 5 kingdoms of Hispaniola (which includes modern day Haiti & Dominican Republic), she initially cooperated for peace with the spanish but eventually her people would be subjected to colonization and disease. I do love your content Lindsay Holiday! So I feel it's important to share the real history of many of these peoples who faced oppression with much of their history and culture all but erased and who built their own genuine societies.

[@laetitia-borgia]

Mulan looks more like Serbian Milunka Savic, Balkan Wars and World War 1 veteran, most-decorated female combatant in the recorded history of warfare. A girl who pretended to be a boy and went to war instead of her sickly brother in order to protect him. Sabaton made a song in her honour, Lady of the dark. I hope one day they'll make a series or film about her.

[@literaterose6731]

This was delightful! The only thing I kind of wished you’d acknowledged is that the mermaid of The Little Mermaid was almost certainly an avatar for Hans Christian Andersen himself, as a queer analogy. I realize he doesn’t fit the structure of this lovely, imaginative piece-not being a princess and all 😉-but it’s meaningful to remember that his anguish for an unrequited love inspired the story.

[@zerotodona1495]

Stop ruining history with your lies

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

I have always wondered why rather than saying gay, people say "queer".

[@uhoh4409]

@@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ cause it’s a broader term. just cause andersen could’ve been gay, doesn’t erase the fact that we don’t know for certain(for example, he could have been bisexual or questioning), so it’s much better to use a blanket term than to throw a guess out there and hope we’re right

[@losingmymind611]

As an additional plug to anybody wanting a deep dive into either Pocahontas or Mulan, I recommend History Calling's video on Pocahontas (and literally every other video she's ever made) and Xiran Jay Zhao's videos on Mulan!

[@CrisSelene]

Xiran Jay Zhao's videos on the connection between the Chinese cultural significance and pop culture and their videos on Wu Zetien are top tier. Highly recommend!

[@grtlyblesd]

Her old stuff is good, but she’s gotten snippy lately. She seemed happier in the older videos.

[@rowennoonan6716]

I agreed with most of the princess matchings except for one: Snow White. I think a better choice would’ve been Hedwig Jagiellon, who was a polish princess in the 1400s. After the death of her royal mother, her father remarried to a woman around her age named Sophia. When Sophia had a son, there was a power struggle between Hedwig and her stepmother, which resulted in the princess’s poisoning.

[@ruyfernandez]

The story matches better, but she's Polish, not German, like the movie seems to suggest.

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

So basically Rhaenyra Targaryen versus Alicent Hightower.

[@rowennoonan6716]

@@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ pricisely

[@--enyo--]

Thanks, interesting!

[@kaelyn1925]

History and Disney= my two favorites!!! So glad you thought to post this! So creative 🤩

[@sokawai5]

Ye😌

[@finland4ever55]

I loved this video! I would love to see one for non disney princesses like Anastasia, Thumbelina, Irene from the Princess and the Goblin, the Princess Bride, Fiona, Odette, Kaguya, and Amalthea. And of course the Barbie princesses.

[@angelcaldwell4190]

Oh My God yes!!!!!!

[@mediocremaiden8883]

Wow that's quite a long request 😳

[@shkodranmaksutaj6904]

I love Oedtte so much I want to see her in disney swan lake

[@KrisRN23935]

Amalthea from The Last Unicorn!?

[@finland4ever55]

@@KrisRN23935 I'm just biased maybe because I love the movie I guess... Unicorns don't exist sadly

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks for this! Been a longtime fan of disney and huge fan of yours! This is the PERFECT crossover! You're the princess of story tellers😊😊😊😊❤❤❤

[@LindsayHoliday]

Thank you!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

@@LindsayHoliday always ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@QueenSharotto]

16:23 “If you ignore Belle’s prom dresses” lmao 😂

[@payrysdoscs4903]

Can you please do a part 3 and include other characters that are sometimes associated with/reffered to as Disney Princesses (Sofia, Elena, Megara, Kida, Esmeralda, Mirabel, Giselle, Vanellope, Tink, Jane from Tarzan, Alice, etc.)

[@Firepuma27]

Sleeping Beauty (1959) was inspired by illuminated manuscripts written during the middle ages and had new colors created to give it a jeweled tone. The most well known is the Book of Kells.

[@ignisgalaxia5825]

Oh heck yeah! Historically accurate Disney princesses are one of my favorite things ever! Really looking forward to this series!

[@emilybrowne3890]

I was surprised to see Empress Eugenie in this line up! I'm from England, and I went to school in her home, Farnborough HIll - I was so lucky to get to be surrounded with historical architecture and beautiful grounds where she and Queen Victoria had once walked! Great video, as always :)

[@RachelDeRosier010894]

This reminds me of a novel series I had in mind where a history major student investigates a curse that affected the historical figures that influenced the fairy tales we know of today, which explains the magical elements to their stories.

[@Disneyfilmily]

Did you ever work it out? It sounds fascinating!

[@RachelDeRosier010894]

@@Disneyfilmily It's one of the stories I have in mind that I never really put the time into materializing. To me, it sounds too similar to Grimm and Once Upon a Time. Plus, I barely have any free time as a new mom.

[@AccaShini]

Omg it sounds so cool! if you do publish this story one day, do let me know I'd be so happy to read it 🙏

[@medusagorgon9]

This is wonderful! I do appreciate your words on the Little Mermaid. Logic, over emotionally charged opinions and thoughts. Can't wait until part 2.

[@marshavilkas3512]

Amazing video as always:) One small correction: at 2:35 you said Archduke Charles II was the younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. Archduke Charles II was actually a son of Ferdinand I.

[@ManikPanik2113]

I always thought that the little mermaid made sense with the context of the Greek and Danish royal family. Maybe the years are off, but a Scandinavian family came to live and rule over mediterranean greece around the time the little mermaid is set.

[@milliehaagen7526]

I was never terribly interested in disney princesses as I was a tomboy growing up, but I am still mad at them for not including Kida in their princess list.

[@schneeroseful]

...or Esmeralda!

[@whathell6t]

Actually! Kida is the Queen of Atlantis since her father died.

[@milliehaagen7526]

@@whathell6t by that logic exclude Cinderella, snow white, and the little mermaid. They were queens at the end of their stories too.

[@whathell6t]

@@milliehaagen7526 Do you actually have citations in MLA or APA format to back your counterpoint that those princesses ended up being Queens?

[@somewhatsecret]

I LOVE this video! You should do one on the real life counterparts from Game of Thrones characters!

[@briannebogle8008]

Hi Lindsey! I always thought Beauty and the Beast was set in Alsace-Lorraine, which went between Germany and France for 100s of years. It was a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire via Maria Therese’s consort. It then became part of the dowery of Marie-Antoinette (if I’m not mistaken.) Anyways, Belle would most certainly not have been based on any of Louis XV’s beautiful daughters , as you put forward here. They were all royal born! However, it may be based on a story set in Alsace-Lorraine. There they speak both French and German . The clothes and century would make sense there.

[@jamiefraser0]

The Beauty and the Beast is a "true" story, more or less. She told a part at the beginning of the the video section. Consalvus (the young man with the hairy condition) and his wife, who was pressured to marry him without ever seeing him before, fell in love with him. But the one of their children who had the same condition as him were send to different royal courts as presents. And one of them was the royal court in France. A noble lady heard the story from one of the children and wrote it down as a fairy tale with magic and stuff. She thought it was romantic. So this fairy tale is not a folk tale but an "Kunstmärchen" with an real author.

[@msdanielsjd]

I just love your storytelling…. Humorous and witty but truthful and direct

[@ant_one]

Disney has confirmed multiple times that 1989’s Little Mermaid is set in Southern Europe, Ariel’s home is the Mediterranean Sea and Eric’s kingdom is in Italy. The whole story takes place between Italy and Greece ❤

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

As French. I couldn’t agree more. It’s obviously either between Italy and Greece. Mermaids are mystical Greek creature

[@KB-jv9hk]

I remember learning the true story of Pocahontas and could never look at the cartoon the same after that. They straight up lied and watered down her story for sure.

[@dbzgal04]

Disney has always been notorious for sugarcoating stories.

[@ArtGeek2817]

That’s why I can’t stand the Pocahontas movies .

[@angyliv8040]

It's not an english story but about a spanish nobel man. Stop erasing our history.

[@dmbalsam]

I spoke to an animator on a Disney tour. He was doing a scene of Pocahontas at the top of a water fall. I mentioned there are no waterfall in the tidewater area. Response was literary license. Disney is famous for their liberal use of literary License. However, they are one of the few companies that consistently produced quality children’s movies.

[@user-bg7nm4ez3i]

How did Disney lie to you, people always criticise Disney for changing the historical accuracy of their films but you got to remember that these movies are for kids and most of the fairytales and historical events they use aren’t suitable for kids also with any film they’re always going to be some liberalities taken not just with Disney, so if you want accurate information research it and not rely on movies to give that to you.

[@abbymoore9215]

This is such a good video ❤ this made the little girl in me who was obsessed with Disney sooo happy

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Amazing video as always! Your range and dedication is always appreciated girl! Keep going! Your work is among the very best and an inspiration!

[@bifa5414]

For me Elsa and Anna are actually Maria and Jadwiga of Anjou. Two sisters who inherited two kingdoms next to each other as teenagers (Hungary for Maria and Poland for Jadwiga). There is even similar story with how older sister was planned to be a monarch of one kingdom but got different kingdom instead and how younger sister who wasn't planned to be crowned also got her own kingdom. Or just like Anna/Elsa they also couldn't see each other for many years while growing up (since Maria was 13 and Jadwiga 10, till they were in late teens). Even Jadwiga's love life is kinda similar to Anna's, with being engaged to one guy but later marrying different guy. And I see even more similarities. The only big difference is time period because Maria and Jadwiga lived five centuries earlier.

[@cinnow]

Elsa and Anna aren't even in the Hand Christian Anderson story The Snow Queen! They're the creation of Disney script writers and for you to then find similarities with real life princesses is a bit creative.

[@L.E.C.S_85]

This video was so much fun to watch! Thank you Lindsay for another awesome piece of work👍🥰

[@cakecrumb095]

Oh my gosh I’m hyped for this series. Also I’m glad you’re including all the princesses in this. I can’t tell you how often these Disney Princess videos leave out some of them.

[@jabes3615]

I kinda appreciate how the English smeared John Roalfe, a commoner, for marrying Pocahontas, a royal. Even though she was seen as a "curiosity" and was initially considered a savage, they still respected her status as a royal of her tribe.

[@persephonestudy]

I just finished my last essay before the vacations. This is the kind of reward I need ❤

[@loverrlee]

Wow I love this!!! I've always wondered who the Disney Princesses would be most like. I can't wait for part 2! Also, your bathroom is beautiful! Fit for a real life princess! 👑💖✨

[@haven_lady675]

I love the research you put in to find the most likely inspiration for each Disney Princess 😊

[@crystalschweitzer7625]

I love pocahontas. She's always been my favorite, but my parents also taught me her true story when I was a little kid. We actually had a book about her. So I grew up knowing the movie was not her actual story.

[@lisakilmer2667]

What a fun historical "treasure hunt". I'm impressed by your research! Here's a piece of tiny trivia: you mentioned that Maria Anna of Bavaria wore "austere and religious" black. Actually, black was an early vanity color - it was very difficult and expensive to produce before synthetic dyes were created. Another bit of trivia: powdered pearls were also used to whiten skin, and I've seen it somewhere. Pearl imparts an iridescence that is very pretty and maybe more Snow White-ish than lead.

[@scarlottyyy]

Lindsay I love this concept!!

[@carrieaung5419]

Yay! You finally uploaded a Disney Princess video!

[@grace5033]

11:02 I was just about to say that the Denmark theory is untrue. Disney did confirm that the animated movie is set in Italy and the remake is set somewhere in the Caribbean. I was gonna come here and say it, but you did already put ("or Mediterranean or Caribbean" so it's still fine, so thank you)

[@ruyfernandez]

I would say that Empress Josephine is closer to Cinderella than Empres Eugenie. The first came from an impoverished family, while the second was a spanish countess in her own right. Another possible match, quite similar to Empress Eugenie, would be Maria Victoria dal Pozzo, Princess of Cisterna d'Asti. She married Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, who then briefly became king of Spain. The fact that they are not French is not such a big deal, because early 18th century Piedmont was culturally quite close to France. However, Victoria was the sole heiress of a very wealthy and old Piedmontese noble family, and was a princess in her own right, although not a reigning one. In fact, her wealth and ancient nobility was the main reason why King Victor Emmanuel II ended up agreeing to declare Prince Amedeo and Princess Victoria's match dynastic, while in normal circumstances it would have been considered morganatic. Other (relatively) poor women who married kings or emperors and rose to power would include empresses Catherine II and especially Catherine I of Russia, but both are way too early, and are not in France.

[@ilonat8373]

Catherine II was a German aristocrat whose mother was related to the King of Sweden and her marriage was basically arranged. So she wasn't a commoner marrying into royalty.

[@ruyfernandez]

@@ilonat8373 indeed, but within royalty, her father, the Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, who was originally a younger son and only later inherited the principality from his brother, was considered a nobody. When Tsarina Elizabeth asked Frederick II of Prussia an advice for a bride for her nephew, Frederick proposed Sophia (later Catherine), among many others, because her father had been serving as one of his generals for a living, so much so that she was born in a rented flat in Stettin, where the prince was serving at the moment. Catherine herself, in her memoirs, admitted she did not receive a great education, since she was expected to marry one day some other minor german prince. Finally, when Christian August of Anhalt-Zerbst died, Catherine was allowed to mourn her father for only 8 days. On the 8th, Tsarina Elizabeth ordered Catherine to stop mourning, since her father "was no king to mourn him for more than 8 days". Of course Catherine was much higher born than a commoner, but still her ascension to the thone was quite exceptional at the time.

[@ruyfernandez]

@@tahirhasan1056 this sounds similar to Josephine, don't you agree? Her family too used to be noble, if I remembre well, before becoming poor.

[@pjwilliams2646]

I cant actually express how much I enjoyed this video, always loved everything Disney and to know find that there are some tethers to a less than Disney reality is great. Cant wait for the next episode

[@aggienatl]

By far, my favorite video from you. Thank you so much for creating this content.

[@the_amazing_vix]

This is really cool! Can't wait for part 2!

[@TheErinandTeeyaShow]

I thought they found the gravestone of “snow white”-not real name, but actual person who had a stepmom she didn’t get along with, lived alone & never married. I recall reading about it a few years ago, just wish I recalled the details.

[@verttikoo2052]

This was a fantastic video 🎉 Can’t wait for the part 2 🥳

[@Idkidkidkidk806]

Lindsay i love your channel so much!! i really want to see more history about Asia, South America, The carribean, and africa because i find it super intresting(i ofc love europe but i am intrested to learn more about other areas of the world) i adored this video so much thank you!!!!!!

[@tylishaqueenoceanriver1676]

Thank you Miss holiday. You’re a great teacher. I love your videos.

[@theglamnerd1128]

I have never been this early! I love both real and Disney Princesses

[@thehomeschoolinglibrarian]

This is going to be a great series. My 4 year old daughter is really into Disney princesses especially Belle and Rapunzel.

[@jyf.7551]

Love this idea Lindsay, can’t wait to see more like it

[@rue...whenwasthis]

Now this is QUALITY content, subbed and liked

[@juintevrucht6079]

Your choices of real royalty matches to Disney princesses looks spot on.

[@lassebirkhenriksen]

That is such a great idea for a video series!!! So interresting!

[@sallyjohnson]

One of my favorite videos you've ever done. So interesting

[@MadiMikay]

I love the respectful nod to Halle! ❤️ amazing video as always!

[@emilyandbeth5605]

I love your channel❤Keep doing what you do!

[@maciegoodspeed9670]

I love this idea Lindsay. So excited for the next video

[@jaydiarie]

The whiplash I got from you saying she had a happy relationship with her maternal uncle LOL. I forgot what time period we were dealing with for a brief second!

[@MotDoiAnLac258]

Wow! Thank you for sharing this.

[@mediocremaiden8883]

@10:37 should point out that, that is not Catherine of Valois' corpse it is her old,broken wooden effigy from her funeral

[@NK-pr9xy]

😂 I was wondering if anyone was going to tell her.

[@marthamariaomeany7033]

Hi! I loved this video. I especially loved the analysis you did with Ariel and her counter-part. I also love mermaids in general plus learning history. Do you by chance have a video looking into all the historical stories of mermaids compared to how they are depicted in tv shows/ movies of today? If you don’t, would you be willing to make this video(s)? Thank you for all the great videos you make. ❤

[@sierra1101]

I loved this! I’m so excited to see your next video

[@liliancui5163]

I would like to say as a Chinese reading the original script of ballad of Mulan she revealed her identity by putting the flower decoration in the middle of her forehead not a yellow flower, the word "huahuang" in Chinese's literal meaning is flower yellow but actually it means the little piece of decoration ancient women wore. And she's based on a real woman of the same name.

[@PerfectlyImperfect93]

This is great thank you Lindsay!🩷

[@keishahill9496]

Thank you Lindsay for this

[@jencookie2920]

This is such a cool series and I’m so excited to see more!! - from a longtime fan :)

[@wiskerpatrol1636]

Wonderful video. Thank tou for sharing. I like how you addressed both versions of Ariel. 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏽‍♀️

[@l.m.2404]

I am of the thought that Hans C. Anderson took the story of Melusina and made it Danish. If so, the story is French with a version from either Lichtenstein or Luxembourg. I always enjoy your content, and this episode was very fun.

[@terrysilva6430]

Loved this video and can't wait for the next one

[@jacobgutierrez8134]

My mom’s last name is Montijo (never took my father’s name) and never heard of Empress Eugenie before. And have never have only met a handful of other Montijo’s outside my family and have considering adding my moms last name for years. I am absolutely obsessed

[@andypham1636]

Empress Eugenie's last name was actually Palafox y Kirkpatrick. She is often called Eugenie de Montijo because her father was Count of Montijo.

[@bylotte5963]

I loved this Lindsay, thank you! Keep up the good work❤

[@lexiwirth6811]

Thank you so much for doing this series! I loved watching!!!

[@ajerjavec4723]

Fun fact about Disney’s Pocahontas, at the beginning, they did want to be more historically accurate well as much as you can make a fairytale version but Jeff Katzenberg made her more mature to get another Oscar nomination for Disney also, the crew did want to make Pocahontas mom a character because they were sick of the no mom trip at the time but after learning that her dad basically just impregnate women and then gave the girls a Way for alliances and they decided to just go with a trllell for one more movie

[@theladyprincess]

I find it sort of fascinating that disney wanted this film to be nominated for best picture, and it didn't work out yet other historically inaccurate films of that decade (like braveheart, elizabeth, and shakespeare in love to name a few) were able to gather some nods and wins and two of them even won best picture later on

[@angiekelley2416]

I think putting the story in a concrete time period takes away from the fact that the story is a fairytale and doesn't need to be taken literally.

[@emilykranking9996]

What is fantastic is that Ariana Austin Makonnen literally went to my high school (Class of '01). So great to see her get recongized and have her compared to one of my faves (Tiana)!

[@adhiambogwengwalchen]

In my head, the Prince had been sent to one of their Caribbean colonies as a governor, which is where he met Ariel! ❤ Denmark *did* have a colonial presence in the Caribbean. From the top of my head, the Danish Crown had sugar plantations, which paid for some of the surrounding palaces in Copenhagen.

[@JBee369]

I disagree with Cinderella. The earliest records were of a real woman who was a princess of Egypt named Rhodepis. She even had silk slippers which is what Cinderella originally had. Not glass.

[@hopegalloway578]

Jasmines clothes reflect like ancient Indian garb I think. Like early Vedic texts pre first dynasty. It doesn’t go with what the rest of the story would indicate for sure

[@garveyneal1672]

Can you do Disney Villains vs. Real History?

[@johnnzboy]

Superb research and deliciously wry observations - the imaginative and varied subjects of your videos never cease to engage, entertain and edify :)

[@LindsayHoliday]

Thank you!

[@ucky9675]

Personally I think the real life story of Bathilde of Frankia is closer in relation to cinderalla. In the 7th century she was went was sold into slavery and made forced to serve the may of the palace of Nuestria. King Clovis II fell in love with her at first sight and made her his Queen. Also I love your work but I do have to add in that Hans Christian Anderson’s wrote the fairy tale versions of of the little mermaid not the original. The original story was Undine by Frederick de la Motte Fouque’. And it’s based of the legend of water sirens that would woo men from ships or the shore. In the green version it was to drown sailors but in the European version it was to wed men and gain a soul of their own.

[@cocoaorange1]

Why would the evil mermaids want the sailors to drown?

[@troncat.t]

one of my favorite videos i’ve ever watched

[@anonbye]

Yeeeeees 🗺️ this is a P E R F E C T birthday gift! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS 😍💜 seriously they’re amazing! THANK U!

[@ChaiKitty7779]

I like to think actually that Sleeping Beauty takes place in Modern Day Switzerland, an in between place of Germany and France, because of the Grim Brother’s and the popular opinion.

[@bieassialaw6832]

As always, another great video 😊❤

[@ifemdifechiegwuenu]

I'm a Nigerian and the way you pronounced Mami Water was funny but still amazing job on the videos

[@shekinah533]

I just enjoyed the history the Disney matches was a creative plus💞. I love your channel and your voice. Thank you for the history lesson💞🫶🏽

[@arianazavala9959]

15:45 - 16:05 LOL I'M DEAD (loved the video)

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

You manage to pack SO much amazing info into your content. It’s awesome! I always look forward to your content. You're one of a kindl! I could hear you talk about grass and still have a great time!