Corona Castle

### Inhabitants

Rapunzel, Flynn Rider, Pascal, Queen Arianna, King Frederic, Cassandra (formerly), Captain of the Guards, Old Lady Crowley, Friedborg

### Visitors

Mother Gothel, Pub Thugs, Lady Caine, Lance Strongbow, Varian, Andrew, Angry and Red, Willow, Feldspar, Quirin, King Edmund, Ruddiger, Monty, Xavier, King Trevor, Adira, Hector, Zhan Tiri

**The Castle of Corona** is a castle that is featured in Disney's 2010 animated feature

film, *Tangled*, along with its subsequent short and TV series. It is located in the centre of a city on an island and is the home of King Frederic, Queen Arianna, their daughter Rapunzel, and later Flynn Rider.

## Background

The castle was one of the last buildings to be constructed and is located at the centre of the main island. When the rulers, King Frederic and Queen Arianna's daughter, Princess Rapunzel was born, they made a tradition to release lanterns into the sky to celebrate her birth. Following Rapunzel's kidnapping, the tradition continued every year on her birthday where the entire kingdom sends floating lanterns out into the sky in hopes of one day the lost princess would return. The King and Queen release the first lantern at the castle and soon after the rest of the kingdom release their lanterns. This tradition would persist for several years after Rapunzel's eventual return.

Eighteen years later, Flynn Rider and the Stabbington Brothers break into the castle to steal the crown of the lost princess. By the end of the film, Rapunzel returns to the castle alongside Eugene and is finally reunited with her true parents, while Eugene is also accepted into the royal family for helping Rapunzel. In *Tangled Ever After*, the castle is the main location for Rapunzel and Eugene's wedding and it becomes a major setting in all *Tangled* films, including it's television series.

The castle serves as a major setting for *Tangled: Before Ever After*, where Rapunzel and Eugene are now living in the castle together and are settling into their new lives. However, Rapunzel is still struggling to adjust to her new life, feeling overwhelmed and anxious, especially due to her father's overprotective nature, causing her to feel trapped in the confines of her home. Cassandra helps ease Rapunzel's stress by sneaking her out through a secret passage. It also commonly appears throughout the subsequent TV series.

## Places of interest

* The Throne Room: The main room where King Frederic and Queen Ariana govern the kingdom and serves usage for royal events. It is also the same location that held most of the events for the Contest of Crowns competition, Rapunzel's coronation and later her and Eugene's royal wedding.
* Courtyard: The main entrance to the castle where citizens come together during the release of the lanterns, partake in festivities, gather when the rulers make an announcement or when the Royal Family greet guests visiting the kingdom.
* Rapunzel's Room: The personal quarters of Princess Rapunzel located in the highest tower of the castle. It's a large room that features a shelf that serves as a reading area, fireplace, vanity and has space for painting along with several lanterns hanging above the ceiling. The walls of Rapunzel's room also includes two paintings of a mural of the film's events and a bird mural to represent freedom. Rapunzel's room also has a window ledge that leads to her balcony, overlooking the kingdom.
* Eugene's Room: The personal quarters of Eugene Fitzherbert. It's a decent sized room with double doors upon entering with his wardrobe closeby as well as a vainty and fireplace. Eugene's bedside has two windows on opposite sides, along with a candle holder and a chest near his bed, containing his personal items.
* Cassandra's Room: The former personal quarters of Cassandra after she decided to leave to find her own destiny. It contains her belongings such as a painting of her and Rapunzel, weapons collection and a sparring dummy with Eugene's face painted.
* King Frederic and Queen Arianna's Room: The personal quarters to Corona's rulers, King Frederic and Queen Arianna, including a royal family portrait and a balcony outside. It is also the same location where Mother Gothel broke into the castle and kidnapped Rapunzel when she was a baby.
* Dining Room: A large dining room with a long table and ten chairs and King Frederic's favorite one of a kind vase as the main center piece.
* Banquet Room: A large room for guests to dine and eat together. It's also the same location where Eugene first proposed to Rapunzel during her coronation weekend.
* Garden: It is where the Royal Family eat and enjoy their breakfast together on the gazebo with a small nearby waterfall close to the entrance leading to the garden.
* Strategy Room: It's a room to gather for plans of attack or strategies to protect the kingdom. It includes both a map and a small model replicate of Corona.
* The Secret Passage: Inside one of the castle storage rooms contains a secret passage, allowing one to exit or enter the castle without being noticed. It was first used by Rapunzel and Cassandra when they sneak out of the castle the night before Rapunzel's coronation, but has since become abandoned.
* The Royal Vault: It's the most secured room of the castle, containing the kingdom's most valuable treasures, including the Sundrop Flower until it was later stolen by Varian.
* Journal Room: This room held the sacred journal belonging to Corona's past ruler, King Herz Der Sonne, until it was later destroyed. It now currently contains the new Book of Hearts made by Princess Rapunzel.
* Beauty Room: It's a room that serves as of a spa for the royal family to relax. The room is divided into three spaces, the first for royal treatments such as facials, massages or haircuts. The second and third area is for sewing to make clothes such as when Eugene selected his suit or when Cassandra was fixing Rapunzel's dress in preparation for the coronation.
* Kitchen: The kitchen is where all the food is made and prepared and Rapunzel sometimes cooks and has Pascal or Eugene serve as her taste tester.
* Portrait Room: It houses the portraits of all the past kings and queens of Corona.
* Guest Rooms: The castle has various empty bedrooms that often serve as guest rooms to visitors staying in the castle temporarily, including Lance Strongbow and Angry and Red.
* Weapons Room: It's a room where weapons are stored and forged.
* Training Grounds: An area inside the castle gardens where the Royal Guards are trained, including an obstacle course for new recruits.
* The Stables: The stable houses the royal horses, including Maximus and Fidella and briefly, Axel, and is close by from the training grounds.
* The Library: It's a room in the castle that stores various books where the royal family or visitors can come whenever they please to find information.
* The Dungeon: Below the castle, various cells are held to imprison some of Corona's most dangerous criminals, including Lady Caine, the Stabbington Brothers, Andrew and the Separatists of Saporia and briefly, Varian.
* Varian's Temporary Lab: A room filled with his alchemy when he took over the Castle alongside Andrew and the Saporians.