I’ve been waiting, for a long time, for a Disney princess to truly embrace, a princess who seems relevant to actual, modern girls. I think I finally found her. Her name is Merida, and she’s the ...

The heroine of “Brave” is a princess, but the animated comedy/adventure goes to great lengths to assure us she’s not your typical Disney princess. Although her mother constantly nags her about ...

There are so many rules for a Disney princess. Too many for Disney’s newest princess, the Scottish heroine Merida in “Brave,” to remember. “A princess does not doodle,” her mother lectures in a light ...

For little girls, princesses hold roughly the same value that tulips did for the Dutch back in the 1500s, and that princess mania is sure to get a boost with the new Pixar movie Brave, which stars a ...