Aurora

### Likes

Romance, her family, strolling in the forest, singing, dancing, animals, daydreaming, picking berries, Phillip

### Dislikes

Being treated like a child, arranged marriages, not seeing Phillip, being alone

## Family information

### Parents

King Stefan (father)
Queen Leah (mother)

### Other relatives

Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather (adoptive aunts)
King Hubert (father-in-law)

### Partner(s)

Philip (husband)

 ―Aurora

***Princess Aurora*** (was also called ***Briar Rose*** by the three fairies) is the titular protagonist of Disney's 1959 animated feature film, *Sleeping Beauty*. She is the daughter of King Stefan and Queen Leah. On the day of her christening, Aurora was cursed to die by the evil fairy called Maleficent. Due to the efforts of the three good fairies, Merryweather was able to alter the curse to instead draw Aurora into a deep sleep that could only be broken with true love's kiss.

Aurora is the third official Disney Princess, alongside her husband, Phillip, who is also the third official Disney Prince. Aurora was significant for being the last princess to be developed in Walt Disney's life.

## Background

### Development

The original drawing for Aurora was made by Tom Oreb, who based the design of Aurora on Audrey Hepburn's thin frame and graceful demeanour. Later, Marc Davis worked on sketches of Oreb to improve the appearance and clothing of the Sleeping Beauty so that they were made to combine the angular forms of background images.

Soon, Davis's wife, Alice, designed some of Aurora's dresses. According to the designer, this was her first job at Walt Disney Studios, in which she became Marc's wife in 1956.

As with some other Disney films, an actress was hired as a live-action model, to guide the animator. Helene Stanley became the model for Aurora. She had previously done this post, being the role of Cinderella.

### Personality

Princess Aurora is a kind, graceful, angelic, elegant, gentle, and loving person, as well as a hopeless romantic. At first, she was slightly shy, and a playful, carefree young woman as a result of being sheltered her entire life. Aurora is also very loyal and honest to her "aunts" and obeys their rules even though she may not be eye-to-eye with them. As she was raised to not talk to any strangers, Aurora was startled when she met Prince Phillip in the forest, wanting to run away at first. But she was then drawn to him before remembering her aunts' rule. She then compromised in arranging to meet him at her cottage, with her aunts' supervision.

Despite her innocence and apparent dependence on others' actions and opinions, Aurora isn't as passive or helpless as she may seem at first sight. For example, she's rather annoyed by how Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, despite Aurora's adolescence, treat her like a small child, which gives a hint that Aurora, in fact, is prone to independence and not willing to rely purely on somebody's opinion. Also, she's actually quite selfless and strong-willed. When Aurora finds out about her real background as a princess and realizes that she can't see her beloved man anymore, she, although deeply upset, shows firmness and loyalty to those that she cares about. Aurora agrees to push her feelings away and do what is right: return home and fulfill her royal duty as a princess, even if she has to marry a man she doesn't love and barely knows in that way. However, upon being awakened by Philip and being saved from the sleeping curse, Aurora is happy to discover the man she loves and her betrothed are the same person, making her become full of sentience and happiness as she embraces her new life as a princess after reuniting with her parents.

### Physical Appearance

Aurora is a beautiful young woman, who was magically blessed with waist-length, wavy, golden hair like sunshine, violet eyes, and lips that shame the red rose. She has a tall, slender figure and her skin is fair and flawless. Unlike the Disney Princesses created before her, Snow White and Cinderella, and even the others created after such as Ariel, Rapunzel and Moana for example, her face is less rounded and more angular and refined, giving her an appearance of maturity rather than youth despite being only sixteen.

As a peasant, she wears a black bodice over a gray long-sleeved calf-length frock with a white petticoat and goes barefoot (wears black ballet flats in the cancelled Disney Princess Enchanted Tales movie, A Kingdom of Kindness). She wears a black headband and carries a purple shawl when going out.

As her princess self, she wears a pink or blue ball gown with a petal overskirt, a ruffled white petticoat, and long triangular sleeves, a golden tiara, and blue or pink shoes. During the original film, Flora and Merryweather fight for the colors of her ball gown either in pink or blue, even at the end of the film where Aurora dances with Prince Phillip in a ballroom dance. The dress is blue for most of the original film, but in later appearances and merchandise, Aurora's ball gown is depicted as pink.

In most media, Aurora is depicted as wearing pink, though she is usually seen wearing blue as to not be confused with Cinderella.

### Abilities

In *Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams*, Aurora was given a magic wand from Merryweather to use, and Aurora was able to wield its magical powers such as making two stacks of papers pick themselves up, transforming her nightgown into a ball gown with a dazzling necklace, matching earrings, and a jewelled tiara. She summoned chickens and cows and temporarily turned a farmer into a duck. Later in the story, Aurora fixed her problems and gave away the remaining cows to peasants. At the end of the story, she returned the wand to Merryweather, having learned she shouldn't have taken the easy way out.

In the original film, despite Aurora having been enchanted by Maleficent, Aurora's willpower combined with shouts from the fairies temporarily gave her the strength to regain control of herself for a few seconds before pricking her finger on the spinning wheel's spindle and falling into a deep sleep.

## Appearances

### Sleeping Beauty

Aurora's parents have named her after the Roman goddess of the dawn because she filled the King and Queen's lives with sunshine. A few days after her birth, she was presented at the christening, where she was then betrothed to Prince Phillip, son of King Hubert. There were also three good fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, who bestow blessings on the princess. Flora and Fauna give Aurora the gifts of beauty and song. But before Merryweather could tell her gift, the evil Maleficent arrives. She was enraged that she was not invited to the christening. With this, Maleficent puts a curse on Aurora, saying that on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die. Maleficent then disappears, leaving everyone worried for Aurora's doomed future. Though she can not lift the curse, Merryweather changes it somehow. Instead of dying, Aurora would fall into a deep sleep and only to be awakened with true love's kiss.

Meanwhile, King Stefan has every spinning wheel in his kingdom destroyed in an attempt to prevent the curse. But still fearful for her safety, the three fairies negotiated with her parents and hid Aurora as a peasant for sixteen years. They take the baby princess to a cottage in the forest and disguise themselves as "aunts" and renaming her to Briar Rose. On Aurora's sixteenth birthday, her aunts send her into the forest to pick berries so they can prepare he party in secret. While Aurora is picking berries, she has a talk with her animal friends and dreams of meeting her prince, she then sings "Once Upon a Dream". For the first part, she was singing to herself, but then meets Phillip who has followed her enchanting voice. Not knowing who Phillip is, or of their betrothal, she at first believes him to be a stranger and attempts to leave. However, she dances with him for a bit and ends up falling in love. When he asks for her name, she then leaves, due to realizing she isn't allowed to give her name to strangers. She does, however, tell him where she lives and asks him to meet her there that night.

Meanwhile, Briar Rose comes home to a splendid birthday party. She tells her aunts about the young man that she met, but gets confused when they are not happy for her. Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather reveal Briar Rose's true identity as Princess Aurora, as well as the fact that she has been betrothed. The fairies sadly explain that she can never see the young man again, not knowing that he was actually her betrothed. Heartbroken, Aurora breaks into tears as she heads upstairs to weep on her bed. She doesn't speak again for the rest of the film (even her love interest Phillip does the same thing). The fairies bring the brokenhearted Aurora back to her father's castle, but in disguise with a hood and cloak to avoid anyone seeing her until the proper time. Before she can see her parents, they take her to a room where they conjure a crown and place it on her head to help her realize her royal identity. However, a heartbroken Aurora begins to cry and the fairies decide to leave her alone to grieve. While they are gone, Maleficent places the princess in a trance and leads her up an abandoned tower staircase. Just then, at the top floor of the empty room, Maleficent conjures a spinning wheel. The fairies realize that Aurora's in trouble due to their mistake of leaving her alone and frantically run up the stairs to stop her, but before they can, Maleficent forces the girl to prick her finger on the spindle, invoking the curse. When the fairies arrive too late to find Aurora, Maleficent mocks them for their failed efforts of trying to stop her by revealing the sleeping princess before vanishing, cackling maniacally in triumph.

Disappointed about their failure, the fairies place Aurora, now in an enchanted slumber, upon a bed at the top of the highest tower. Knowing that everyone would be heartbroken and disappointed if they had discovered this news, the fairies decide to put everyone to sleep until Aurora awakens. While putting all the residents in the kingdom to sleep, the fairies discover that Phillip has been the man that Aurora met all along after overhearing King Hubert speak of his son meeting a peasant girl before he falls asleep with everyone else. So the fairies go to the cottage to get Phillip, but are then prompted to go to the Forbidden Mountain, Maleficent's domain, after discovering that Maleficent has captured and imprisoned the prince. They rescue Phillip from the dungeon and arm him with the Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue. After fending off Maleficent's minions, they finally exit the Forbidden Mountain just in time and head for Stefan's castle. Just then, Maleficent tries to prevent Phillip from doing so by assaulting him with her magic in various ways, culminating it by creating a forest of thorns in front of the castle, though Phillip manages to hack through the thorns with little effort. Angered at this, Maleficent suddenly appears in their way and transforms herself into a dragon. After defeating Maleficent in her dragon form with some help from the fairies, Phillip enters the castle and walks up the staircase to the tower room, where Aurora is still sleeping. He gives her a kiss, true love's kiss, which finally awakens Aurora and breaks the curse. Aurora smiles after she realizes that her betrothed and her love are the same person. Thanks to Phillip, all the royals in the kingdom also awaken from their indefinite sleeping curse.

The couple goes down to the ballroom to meet Aurora's parents and Phillip's father, who are also freed from the sleeping curse by Phillip’s true love kiss on Aurora. She reunites and hugs her parents to embrace them, and kisses Hubert on his cheek before sharing a dance with Phillip. While the couple dances, Merryweather and Flora reignite their rivalry once again on their respective colors as the two bickering fairies relentlessly change the color on her dress with their magic. Aurora's ball gown keeps changing colors as she and Phillip continue dancing and share another kiss, with the final words in the book, below the illustration of the couple romantically kissing (and the color of Aurora's ball gown still changing between blue and pink) "and they lived happily ever after".

### Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams

In this film, Aurora appears in the story, "Keys to the Kingdom". In this story, Phillip, King Hubert, King Stefan, and Queen Leah go off for a Royal Conference for two days. In this time, with the help from her father's major-domo, Lord Duke, Aurora is in charge of her Kingdom until her parents return. Throughout the segment, Aurora attempts to stay calm during hectic situations, which proves to be quite a challenge. Soon, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather leave the castle to give back King Hubert's forgotten speech, but before they left, Merryweather hands Aurora her magic wand to use on harsh times but the Duke reminds Aurora they have much work to be done. At first, Aurora thinks of this as an easy way to avoid stress, ignoring her vow to stay calm. That night, Aurora looks out of her window before she sleeps and sees the brightest star and misses her husband, but before she sleeps, she turns her nightgown into a ball gown, with jewels, and a tiara.

The next day, Aurora accidentally uses the wand to cause more trouble than before, having her result to her previous plans, which prevails. Aurora then succeeds with getting the chickens, cows, and pigs out before Phillip, Hubert, King Stefan, Queen Leah, and the three good fairies arrive. In their return, they enjoy a banquet she prepared, until a giant chicken leg falls.

Mary Costa, original voice actress, was not fond of this story.

### House of Mouse

Aurora makes plenty of cameo appearances in *The House of Mouse* always in her peasant dress from her years as Briar Rose.

In her notable appearance in the episode "House of Genius", Aurora and Phillip were waiting to be welcomed by Donald, but as he was sleeping on the job, she commented: "*And they call me Sleeping Beauty!*".

In "Ask Von Drake", during Ludwig Von Drake's song, Aurora slept at her table, having Ludwig leave an alarm clock by her side.

In "Jiminy Cricket", she was advised by Jiminy to use a sewing machine as opposed to a spinning wheel.

In "Donald and the Aracuan Bird", when Donald attempts to shoot the Aracuan Bird with the dart gun, he ends up inadvertently shooting everyone in the audience except for Aurora, causing everyone, including Prince Phillip, to fall asleep, much to her dismay and annoyance.

She also appears in *Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse* and briefly in *Mickey's House of Villains*, where she, Cinderella and Belle are harassed by the Fates before the Queen of Hearts beheads the Fates soon after.

In the series, Aurora is voiced by Jennifer Hale, who is also the current voice actress for Cinderella.

### Sofia the First

Princess Aurora appears in Season 1 Christmas Special episode, "Holiday in Enchancia". She is the first princess to not sing on the show and simply gives Sofia advice by talking to her. She is seen in her redesign look along with a winter cape.

In "Forever Royal", when Sofia battles Vor in the amulet, Aurora appears in spirit form, along with the other summoned princesses.

### Ralph Breaks the Internet

In *Ralph Breaks the Internet*, Aurora is a netizen who lives and works with the other Disney Princesses in Oh My Disney, where they meet their fans. When Vanellope glitches into the princesses' dressing room to hide from the First Order Stormtroopers, Aurora is seen taking a nap on the couch while holding the rose she held when she was under Maleficent's curse. Mistaking Vanellope as a threat, the princesses charge at her with various weapons; Aurora wields the spindle of the cursed spinning wheel, holding it like a dagger or knife. Vanellope explains that she's a princess as well to assure the girls she means them no harm, which prompts Pocahontas to ask what kind of princess she is, as they are unsure if she's being honest with them. Aurora and Tiana (while the former is being pulled away from the cursed spinning wheel by the latter) ask Vanellope if she has been cursed, which she denies.

After declaring Vanellope an official princess, Aurora and the princesses admire her "gown" and change into more comfortable modern clothes to match made by Cinderella's mice. Aurora wears sleepover attire that consists of a pink headband, a striped long-sleeved pajama top with pink and deep pink stripes and a graphic that reads "Nap Queen" in gold letters with a crown on the letter "N", dark pink pants and pink ballet flats, and is seen lounging on an ottoman while sipping a can of lemon-lime soda. After hearing Vanellope's song about the steering wheel she needs to fix her video game *Sugar Rush*, Aurora gives Vanellope an awkward look. When C-3PO enters the room to tell the princesses to get ready for another quiz, Aurora says goodbye to Vanellope. Merida tries to give Vanellope advice in an unintelligible Scottish accent, to which Aurora makes an awkward face.

In the climax of the film, Aurora and the princesses witness Ralph about to fall to his death, and they work together to save him. Aurora uses the spinning wheel to spin Rapunzel's magic hair into ropes. After Ralph is safe, the princesses introduce themselves as Vanellope's friends and befriend Ralph as well.

## Live Action Appearances

### Maleficent

Aurora appears in the feature film as Maleficent's secret rival and good friend, portrayed by actress Elle Fanning while Angelina Jolie's daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt portrays her as a 5-year-old. Out of all other little girls, Vivienne was the only child that wasn't afraid of her own mother in costume since the other kids in casting would run away in fear of Angelina's appearance. Unlike her animated counterpart, here Aurora has more screen time and plays a much larger role in the overall story.

As an infant, she was out of vengeance cursed by Maleficent that before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday she would prick her finger on the spindle of a Spinning Wheel and fall into an eternal slumber like death. To keep her safe she was taken into hiding.

Over the next sixteen years, she comes across Maleficent many times as she grows up and comes to believe the wicked fairy is her fairy godmother. Aurora was nicknamed "Beastie" by Maleficent in their first interaction. She is secretly cared for by Maleficent and Diaval since the Pixies are incapable of doing so. Even as a toddler she has no fear of being near Maleficent at all, especially when she hugs her and lets her pick her up.

When Aurora is fifteen, Maleficent brings her to the Moors and two eventually develop a mother-daughter relationship but remains unaware that the fairy she claims to be her fairy godmother is the one who had cursed her as an infant. She wishes to stay in the Moors with Maleficent but after learning the truth of her past and Maleficent's identity from the Pixies, she angrily returns to her father. Unfortunately, she was not supposed to return until the day after her sixteenth birthday, and as the sun begins to set, the curse calls to her and follows a whispering voice to the dungeons where all the spinning wheels in the kingdom were burnt. She approaches one spinning wheel that repairs itself, and she slowly reaches out for the spindle. She pricks her finger and falls into her eternal deathlike slumber.

Maleficent brings Phillip to her, the prince she met in the forest, hoping his brief meeting with her will be enough to break the spell but unfortunately it does not. So sad and ashamed of what her hatred has brought upon her dearest friend, she gives her a motherly goodbye kiss on the forehead and just before she can walk away a miracle happens: Aurora wakes up happy to see her fairy godmother. Maleficent's close and intense motherly love for Aurora was enough to break the curse.

As they try to flee the castle, Maleficent gets captured by Stefan's guards. Aurora tries to save her, but she is overpowered and told to run. She finds her way to a room where she finds Maleficent's fairy wings, and they're still alive. Aurora manages to free them, and they emerge with Maleficent, giving back her ability to fly once again. She allowed Maleficent to kill her deranged father once and for all.

In the last scene, Aurora is crowned Queen of both the human and fairy kingdoms and is reunited with Prince Phillip who both smile at each other as her fairy godmother Maleficent leaves to enjoy flying once again with Diaval. The narrator of the film concludes the tale by revealing that she is, in fact, an elderly Aurora retelling the whole story.

### *Maleficent: Mistress of Evil*

Aurora (as Queen Aurora of the Moors) returns in the sequel, and in the five years since King Stefan's death, Aurora has reigned as Queen of the Moors and eventually accepts Phillip's proposal, when the prince gets the courage to get down on one knee and asked for her hand in marriage. Maleficent, her godmother advises her against the union, though Aurora insists she will be proven wrong. At the dinner she attends with her future in-laws, King John suddenly falls into a deep slumber seemingly cast by Maleficent. Aurora doesn't believe Maleficent when she proclaims that she did not curse him. Aurora eventually grows disillusioned with being an Ulstead noblewoman but is happy that the Moor denizens are invited to the royal wedding. She discovers that Queen Ingrith hates all Moor fairy folk, bitterly resenting their prosperity during a time when her kingdom had suffered and believing they killed her brother. Aurora also learns that it was Queen Ingrith who cursed King John, using Maleficent's old cursed spindle. When Maleficent eventually shows up to fight Queen Ingrith and her army, Aurora pleads with her godmother to not kill Ingrith. She appeals to Maleficent's humanity to spare her and declares that only Maleficent is her mother. With Maleficent distracted, however, the Queen fires her crossbow. Maleficent sees this, and saves Aurora, but is struck by the arrow instead. She then dissolves into ashes. As Aurora's tears fall on the ashes, Maleficent is reborn as a Phoenix. Terrified, Queen Ingrith throws Aurora off the tower, prompting Maleficent to save her.

When Prince Phillip manages to forge peace between the fairies and humans, the Ulstead soldiers stand down. Maleficent reverts to her fairy form and gives Aurora and Phillip her blessing. After Aurora and Phillip are wed, Maleficent returns to the Moors with the other Dark Feys. She promises to return when there is a christening.

## Video games

### *Kingdom Hearts* series

In *Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep*, Aurora's backstory is more or less the same as it was in the film. By the time Terra arrives at the Enchanted Dominion, Aurora has already been placed in a deep slumber under the influence of the curse laid by Maleficent. When Terra reaches the tower and meets Maleficent, she uses the darkness in his heart to temporarily take control of his body as well his mind and forces him to take Aurora's heart. Her heart was kept in Maleficent's castle until Ventus comes to retrieve it with the three good fairies. Although her heart returned, the curse is not broken. Prince Phillip eventually escapes with Aqua's aid and reaches the tower where he kisses Aurora and breaks the spell.

During the ending credits, she and Prince Phillip are seen dancing in the audience chamber of the castle, just like at the end of the movie.

In *Kingdom Hearts*, she is known to be a Princess of Heart and is among the seven to be captured by Riku and Maleficent, most likely by Maleficent herself after recovering from her defeat by Aqua and Phillip and gaining the support of the Heartless, consigning Enchanted Dominion into the Realm of Darkness in the process. She plays a small but important role in the story. Aurora is placed in another deep sleep with the other princesses until Sora, Donald Duck, and Goofy rescue them and Aurora tells them about Ansem. She and the other princesses help open the keyhole and along with the other princesses, she also gives Sora the power of fire. Later, she tells Sora further information about Maleficent. Afterward, she returns to her home as it is restored following the sealing of the Door To Darkness and defeat of Ansem in End of the World.

Her name is part of the password to enter Tron's world, in *Kingdom Hearts II*.

### *Kinect: Disneyland Adventures*

Aurora appears in the game as a meet-and-greet character outside the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Fantasyland. She assigns a few tasks to the player, including helping her prepare a party for the Good Fairies and searching for bird songs. She also participates in the *Mickey's Soundsational Parade* and *Princess Fantasy Faire* mini-games.

### *Disney Heroes: Battle Mode*

***Disney Prince Wiki*** has an individual article based on ***Aurora***.
Aurora made her first appearance in the game as a playable character, she is automatically unlocked by logging in every day, although she does not have any basic attacks, her protective fairies defend her from enemies.

## Trivia

* Aurora's name means "sunrise" or "dawn" in Latin.
	+ On a related note, she is also the first Disney Princess to have an alias not mentioned during her film, except for the title. However, in Disney Princess merchandise, Aurora is usually referred to as Sleeping Beauty rather than by her name.
	+ Her real name, Aurora, which is mentioned a few times in the film, is often unused or even unknown by some fans; by them, she is only called Sleeping Beauty. This is notable in the *House of Mouse* episode "Jiminy Cricket", in which Jiminy Cricket addressed Aurora with "Sleeping" and "Beauty" as her first and last names respectively, reflecting on this.
* She is the only princess that has never talked with the villain of her film.
* Out of all Disney Princesses, she has the least amount of screen time, 18 minutes to be exact. She is followed by Tiana who has the second least screen time as a human (19 minutes).
* Aurora says only 18 lines and remains silent in the second half of the film, even after being awoken with the kiss.
	+ This makes her, out of all the Disney Princesses, to have the least amount of lines. Her first line is delivered 19 minutes into the film, and her last line is delivered 39 minutes in.
	+ She is second only to Dumbo (who didn't speak at all) as the protagonist with the least amount of dialogue throughout their movie.
	+ The last sound ever heard from Aurora in the original film is after she arrives at the castle and is gifted her crown from the fairies, she begins crying over thinking she'll never see Phillip again. The crying sounds are not provided by Mary Costa, but are a recycled stock sound effect of Dopey's crying over Snow White's apparent death from the ending of *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*.
* Her film did not originally do well at the box office, nor was it ever re-released in Walt Disney's lifetime. *Sleeping Beauty* was also the last Princess film made in Disney's lifetime, and the final Disney film within the fairy tale genre until *The Little Mermaid* in 1989.
	+ However, the film developed a loyal following in later years and Aurora has gained much popularity when the Disney Princess franchise was created. This makes her film a sleeper hit.
	+ All the Princesses' films so far were commercially successful during their initial theatrical releases, except for Aurora and Raya's, thus making their films the only ones to be commercial failures during their initial releases. Aurora would, however, later on, appear in the highly successful live-action blockbuster film *Maleficent* and the hit animated movie *Ralph Breaks the Internet*.
	+ Aurora is also the last "traditional" Disney Princess; as these princesses are much more reactive and passive, though Cinderella took some initiative. After that, the later Princesses are more "contemporary" and proactive, starting with Ariel in 1989.
* In the sequel books, she has a palomino horse named Mirette.
* Aurora is the only Disney Princess to *actually* wear a typical princess gown. The other Princesses wear clothes that are not commonly categorized as a "typical" princess gown. For Aurora's case, the gown was meant to distinguish her role as a princess.
* Aurora's alias is Briar Rose, which is also the title of the Brothers Grimm version of the tale.
	+ The Brothers Grimm version of *Sleeping Beauty* is based on the 1636 story by Giambattista Basile called *Sun, Moon, and Talia*.
* The name Aurora is the name of Sleeping Beauty's daughter in the Charles Perrault version, and is the name for the titular character in the Tchaikovsky ballet.
* Aurora is the first Disney Princess to have an official alias, Briar Rose.
* Aurora is the first Disney Princess to have both parents alive and present during the entire film, followed by Mulan, Rapunzel, Merida, and Moana.
* Aurora is one of the eight Disney Princesses to be royal by birth, second after Snow White.
* Despite having a similar narrative with Snow White, wherein they both fell into a deep sleep, Aurora is much more associated with the sleeping trademark.
* Alongside Snow White, Merida, Moana, Tiana, and Raya, Aurora has not had a sequel to her film.
* Aurora's ball gown is constantly changed from blue to pink and back again as a running gag during her film. The constant color change is due to Flora and Merryweather's disagreement on what the color should be.
	+ The gag of Aurora's gown changing color from blue to pink through the film was inspired by the filmmakers' difficult decision on deciding the gown's color during production.
	+ This was also referenced at the end of *Maleficent: Mistress of Evil*, when Knotgrass and Thistlewit disagreed on Aurora's wedding dress being pink or green until a regenerating Fittle helped them settle with blue.
* The final scene of *Sleeping Beauty* with her and Prince Phillip dancing and going off into the clouds was an abandoned concept from both *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* and *Cinderella*.
	+ The dance animation would later be reused in the final scene of *Beauty and the Beast*.
* In the ballet, her father is named King Florestan the XXIV, the Prince is named Désiré or Florimund and the evil fairy is called Carabosse. There are five fairies named Candide (Candor), Coulante, Fleur de farine (Flowing, Wheat flour), Miettes qui tombent (Falling breadcrumbs), Canari qui chante (Singing canary), and Violente (Force). The Lilac Fairy is the final and sixth good fairy and is considered the most powerful.
* The infant Aurora does not make an actual appearance onscreen in the film. She is mostly just wrapped in quilts, but you can't actually see her.
	+ Despite infant Aurora not making an actual onscreen appearance in the original animated film, infant Aurora actually did appear onscreen in *Maleficent*.
* Aurora's original voice actress, Mary Costa, is the only actress alive of the first three Princesses. Both Adriana Caselotti and Ilene Woods passed away in 1997 and 2010, respectively. She is also the only surviving cast member of her film.
* Strangely, in *Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep*, Aurora's bed vanishes, as does Aurora herself when completing Terra's and Ventus' scenarios in her world when she should be asleep in her bed. Though more than likely for the story of the world, it means that Aurora is awake due to Aqua helping Prince Phillip rescue her.
* Coincidentally, Kate Higgins, the latest voice actor for Aurora, also voices Briar Beauty, the daughter of Sleeping Beauty in the Mattel webisode series *Ever After High*.
* Aurora is the first Disney Princess to have an arranged marriage as a conflict, followed by Jasmine, Pocahontas, and Merida. In her case, she was hesitant to return to the castle due to its meaning having to violate her promise of meeting the stranger she met (who, ironically enough, *was* her betrothed).
	+ She is also the only one of the four to actually marry the person to whom she was betrothed.
* In the scene where Maleficent appears in the fireplace and hypnotizes Aurora to prick her finger, the female vocalist heard is actually saying "Aurora!", and it is spoken by none other than Mary Costa herself. While difficult to hear in the film, it is much clearer on the official soundtrack.

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