Which Disney princess was added to the official lineup in 2011?

Rapunzel was the Disney princess added to the official lineup in 2011.

Rapunzel first appeared in Disney’s 2010 computer-animated musical Tangled, a modern retelling of the classic German fairy tale. In the film, she is the lost princess of Corona, kidnapped as a baby and confined in a tower by Mother Gothel, who wants to exploit Rapunzel’s magically restorative hair.

Disney formally inducted Rapunzel as the franchise’s tenth princess on October 2, 2011, at a coronation event at Kensington Palace in London. The timing can cause confusion because Tangled had already been released the previous year; joining the Disney Princess merchandising lineup was a separate step from debuting in a film.

Rapunzel was also notable as the first computer-generated princess in the official lineup. She is sometimes confused with later additions Merida, Moana, and Raya, but those characters joined in 2013, 2019, and 2022, respectively.