Hua Mulan was a brave female soldier who lived between AD 420 and AD 589 in the Northern and Southern dynasties. Disney's Mulan also follows a similar storyline. However, she dresses as a man to join the army.
Pocahontas is a Disney classic. But, her real story holds tragedy. She was kidnapped from her tribe, used as a bargaining chip for food, and converted to Christianity. Later, she married an English man named John Rolfe. She took her last breath in England.
Leah Chase is a renowned chef and owner of a famous restaurant in New Orleans. She inspired the look of Tiana from The Frog And The Princess. Things changed for her when Leah met her husband, Dooky Chase. Until then, she worked as a waitress.
Princess Merida from Brave resembles Flora Macdonald, an activist and royal princess. She assisted the escape from the Battle of Culloden and got involved in the American Revolution.
Catherine, the real-life Belle from Beauty and the Beast, was the daughter of a court servant. She met Petrus Gonsalvus, who had werewolf syndrome. The couple has seven children, four of which developed the same genetic condition.
Saint Barbara, the real-life Rapunzel, was a holy virgin. Many men desired to visit her tall tower asking for marriage. But she dedicated her life to God. Later, her father beheaded her for creating a window for the Blessed Trinity.
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Margaretha von Waldeck was a German countess born in 1533. She had ruby lips and fair skin. But unlike Snow White, Waldeck had blonde hair. Her stepmother sent her to Brussels when she was 16, where she met her husband, Philip II, the King of Spain. She died in 1554. People speculate that her stepmother poisoned her.
Strabo, an Egyptian writer, describes the Rhodopis. However, the Egyptian Cinderella had no evil stepsister. Her story includes an eagle who snatched up her sandal as she was washing her clothes. Later, the bird dropped the sandal in the king's lap and helped him find her.