Also known as Briar Rose, Aurora is graceful and kind. She knows that a wonderful future awaits, if you just have the courage to dream it. Aurora enjoys using her imagination and sharing stories with her forest friends. She is also loyal in her relationships -- to her animal friends, her fairies, and her kingdom.

Mattel At Mattel Inc., Disney's princesses aren't damsels in distress.

Disney's Sleeping Beauty doesn't expressly state that it's set in France; however, there are several clues throughout that allude to that fact, including the playing of the French national anthem and the presence of the French symbol fleur-de-lis. So, it's reasonable to assume that Princess Aurora comes from France.

Mattel had been the Disney dollmaker since the 1990s but it lost the franchise after developing its own line of dolls that saw an overlap with Disney's characters. The company had a relationship with the House of Mouse for 70 years starting out with The Mickey Mouse Club TV in the 1950s.

Aurora is a kind, elegant, graceful, angelic, loving, and gentle person, as well as a hopeless romantic. At first, she is seen as a slightly shy, playful and carefree young woman as a result of being sheltered for most of her life.

24 Facts About Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)

• 01Princess Aurora is a Disney Princess.
• 02Princess Aurora is also known as Briar Rose.
• 03She is named after the light of dawn.
• 04Princess Aurora has three fairy godmothers.
• 05She is cursed to fall into a deep sleep.
• 06Princess Aurora's love interest is Prince Phillip.

The first princess doll was made in the late 1930's shortly after Disney's first princess movie, Snow White, came out but Disney did not start manufacturing Princess dolls until the late 1990's. The traditional Disney princess dolls are thin, have their hair and makeup done and all wearing dresses.

Mattel shut down its last U.S. factory - in Murray, Ky. - in 2001. Barbie, Hot Wheels and other Mattel toys are now made in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico and Thailand.

In the Disney version, her parents named her “Aurora.” This translates to “the dawn” from Latin because it felt that they waited an eternity for their baby, and when she finally came she was a great source of sunshine in their life.

16 Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip This couple in Sleeping Beauty had been betrothed since Aurora's birth! Aurora was 16 and Phillip was 20.

In 2014, Mattel lost the Disney princess contract shortly after launching a toy line called Ever After High, which included public-domain versions of princess dolls that overlapped with Disney's characters, including Cinderella and Snow White. Hasbro started selling Disney's princess dolls in 2016.

The aurora's characteristic wavy patterns and 'curtains' of light are caused by the lines of force in the Earth's magnetic field. The lowest part of an aurora is typically around 80 miles above the Earth's surface. However, the top of a display may extend several thousand miles above the Earth.