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* Galadriel is a Noldorin Princess as the daughter of King Finarfin, and the driving force of the plot in ''Characters/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''.

* ''Galadriel is a Noldorin Princess as the daughter of King Finarfin, and the driving force of the plot in ''Characters/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''.

* In ''[[Literature/{{Donkeyskin}} Donkeyskin'', after promising to marry a woman as beautiful as his dead queen, the king tries to marry his own daughter, the princess. She delays her father's insane request by asking for three wonderful dresses and the hide of the kingdom's gold-producing donkey, then becomes the titular Donkeyskin when she flees to another kingdom.

* In ''Literature/Donkeyskin'', after promising to marry a woman as beautiful as his dead queen, the king tries to marry his own daughter, the princess. She delays her father's insane request by asking for three wonderful dresses and the hide of the kingdom's gold-producing donkey, then becomes the titular Donkeyskin when she flees to another kingdom.
* ''Literature/PrincessBelleEtoile'' is the name of the main protagonist of the homonymous fairy tale, the daughter of princess Blondine and granddaughter of Blondine's mother, an impoverished queen.

* ''Literature/Donkeyskin'': after promising to marry a woman as beautiful as his dead queen, the king tries to marry his own daughter, the princess. She delays her father's insane request by asking for three wonderful dresses and the hide of the kingdom's gold-producing donkey, then becomes the titular Donkeyskin when she flees to another kingdom.

* ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': Princess Diana is the heir to the throne of Paradise Island and wins the right to become Wonder Woman.

* Then there’s Kiara in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2SimbasPride'' though she isn’t in the Princess line due to not being human. She’s tye main focus of the film and helps to end the feud between the halves of the pride.

* ''Franchise/{{Barbie}} '': Barbie is a Princess Protagonist in about half of her movies, though she often doesn't discover this until near the end of the film (i.e. ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheNutcracker'', ''WesternAnimation/BarbiePrincessCharmSchool'').

* ''Franchise/{{Barbie}} '': Barbie is a Princess Protagonist in about half of her movies.

* ''Theatre/TheLightPrincess'': Althea is the titular princess and the youngest daughter of the king of Lagobel, who begins to float after her mother's tragic death, and is also unable to cry.
* ''Theatre/OnceUponAMattress'': In this ''Literature/ThePrincessAndThePea'' parody, Princess Winifred the Wobegone, [[TomboyishName aka "Fred"]], endeavors to pass Queen Aggravain's tests so she may marry her son, Prince Dauntless.

* The heroine of ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', Giselle, is an idealistic PrincessClassic from a fairy-tale kingdom who is thrown into the real world of New York by an EvilQueen.

* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Emma Swan learns that she's a fairy tale princess and her people need her to break a curse.

* {{Franchise/Barbie}} plays a princess in some of her movies. Plus some of the dolls are named as though she is a princess, like the [[WinterRoyalLady "Winter Princess"]] line.

* ''Film/ThePrincess2022'': The protagonist is an unnamed WarriorPrincess who must take back her kingdom when its seized along with her parents by an evil foreign prince.

* The ''VideoGame/CuteKnight'' series of ''VideoGame/CuteKnight1'' and ''VideoGame/CuteKnightKingdom'' each have one of these, although it's only revealed in certain story paths. [[spoiler:The GoldenEnding of the first game reveals that the player is the long-lost daughter of the king and queen. The "Star Princess" ending of the second game takes it UpToEleven with the revelation that the player is the long-lost princess of another ''planet''.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'' has Marianne, the crown princess of the fairies, as the protagonist.

* Creator/RobertMunsch's book ''The Paper Bag Princess'' stars the title princess on a quest to save her prince.

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* ''VideoGame/CuteKnight'' and ''VideoGame/CuteKnightKingdom'' each have one of these, although it's only revealed in certain story paths. [[spoiler:The GoldenEnding of the first game reveals that the player is the long-lost daughter of the king and queen. The "Star Princess" ending of the second game takes it UpToEleven with the revelation that the player is the long-lost princess of another ''planet''.]]