Ariel

Princess Ariel is the protagonist of Disney's classic 1989 animated feature film, The Little Mermaid. She is the seventh and youngest daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena, rulers of the undersea kingdom of Atlantica. She lived through much of her young life with a longstanding, yet forbidden, admiration of the human world, and longed to someday experience life on the surface with humans.

Ariel is also the wife of Prince Eric and the mother of Melody.

Ariel is slightly based on the nameless protagonist of Hans Christian Andersen's Danish fairy tale "The Little Mermaid"; yet she does not have a melancholy ending as in Andersen's tale.

Ariel is the fourth official member of the Disney Princess line-up.