Sleeping Beauty (Dramatized) characters

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The long-awaited daughter of a king and queen. An offended fairy condemns her to die from a spindle wound, but another fairy softens the sentence to a sleep lasting one hundred years. Her parents try to protect her by banning spindles from the kingdom.

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The princess's father, who celebrates her birth with a christening feast for the fairies. After hearing the prophecy, he forbids spinning equipment throughout his realm in an effort to save his daughter.

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The princess's mother, who has long wished for a child and shares the king's joy when their daughter is born.

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An elderly fairy who was not invited to the christening because the royal household believed she had disappeared. Feeling insulted when she is given less splendid tableware than the other fairies, she curses the princess to pierce her hand on a spindle and die.

Also known as The Youngest Fairy

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The last of the invited fairies to present a gift at the princess's christening. Having hidden after overhearing the old fairy's threat, she uses her own gift to change death into a century-long enchanted sleep, from which a prince will awaken the princess.

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A royal heir born about a century after the princess. When he hears that an enchanted princess lies beyond an overgrown wood, he ventures toward the hidden castle to find her.

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The prince's mother, a queen of ogre descent whose appetite makes her dangerous. Her son conceals his marriage and children from her until he becomes king.

Also known as Dawn

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The daughter of the awakened princess and the prince, and the elder of their two children.

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The young son of the awakened princess and the prince, born after his sister Morning.

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A servant ordered by the ogress queen to prepare the royal children and their mother as meals. Unable to carry out the killings, he hides the family and substitutes animals from his kitchen.