r/Barbie2000smovies

I hope this means the other movies get posted soon!

I posted this years ago on a different Barbie movie sub that isn't really active anymore. So I thought I'd share it here.

I was watching the Princess and the Pauper and a thought crossed my mind: could Annaliese's mother, Genevieve possibly be the same Genevieve from the 12 Dancing Princesses? Some of you may be asking "well other than sharing a name, what do these two characters have to do with each other?" Well since Queen Genevieve could pass for an older version of Princess Genevieve, it would be very possible for her to have a daughter who looks just like her. Her late husband is never named and if he was Derek from 12DP then he would be merely king consort and it would make sense why Annaliese didn't ascend to the throne after his death if she's only royal through her mother who is still living and she was unmarried. I know King consorts aren't really a thing in real life, but this is a fictional world where we can suspend gender roles a little bit. The movie already doesn't follow real life royalty rules with Annaliese still being a princess and Preminger wanting to marry the queen to be a king, so clearly in this world marriage is enough to hold the title. Now let me address a couple of holes in this theory. 1) the castle is different. Well there's a simple explanation for that... King Randolph had TWELVE heirs! And Genevieve wasn't even the eldest, so if she and Derek stood any chance of ruling they would need to move into their own kingdom (which would make it even less surprising that it wound up bankrupt). 2) Queen Genevieve and Princess Genevieve's accents are different. Well when have accents ever been accurate or consistent in these films? 3) Considering Princess Genevieve's character arc of seeing through her evil cousin's plan to take over the kingdom, it doesn't really make sense as to why she wouldn't see through Preminger's. Well, for one, Preminger wasnt really scheming AROUND the queen as much as Roweena was around King Randolph. I mean she was literally scheming in front of his face, he was just too sick to notice. Preminger on the other hand was AWAY from the kingdom when he was doing all his shady stuff (they even said Preminger had been away for a long time) so it would've been slightly less noticeable AND you could also argue for senescence catching up to her. There's also the interesting detail of Queen Genevieve's crown being eerily similar to Rapunzel's mother's but that's another theory for another time. What do you guys think? Are you convinced?

I know this is sub for Barbie movies during the 2000s but are we allowed to discuss movies after the 2000s? Like 2010s and 2020s movies?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AK7U8DfdaU