She also starts training at the Royal School led by Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather from Sleeping Beauty. This turns Sofia's life on top of its head, as she moves into the royal palace, where she meets and befriends her step-siblings, Amber, with whom she has a small but friendly rivalry, and James, the young prince.
The fascinating thing about this character, unlike many others like her, is that she was not born into being a royal, but rather a regular girl, as she only became a princess when her mother, Miranda, marries King Roland II from the land of Enchancia, which is the setting of the show. Sofia the first: a modern-day princess for modern-day girls! Sofia is not an official princess though, but one beloved all around the world still, just like Elena of Avalor, another princess from Disney Channel, which made her debut in this show first, which also saw cameos from classic characters like Cinderella, Belle, Ariel, Elsa, Rapunzel, and more, who helped Sofia become the good princess and ruler she turned into by the end of the series. Creating new Disney Princesses is not an easy job, which is why most of the characters featured in this franchise are based upon already-popular fairytale characters, but the popularity of our Sofia the First Games category is proof enough that it can work, as it was in 2012 when this new character made her debut on Disney Junior, continuing on air for a total of four seasons, all the way to 2018 when it ended with the three-part finale special called Forever Royal.