7 Real Figures Behind The Disney Princess Tales

3. Snow White - Margarete von Waldeck

One figure is believed to be Snow White is Margarete von Waldeck, the nobility from Bavaria of the 16th century. This woman has the similar physical characteristics to Snow White and her family have mine with workers of similar stature dwarf (allegedly due to malnutrition since age early).

Margarete romantically involved with Prince Philip II. Their relationship is not approved by the king and stepmother Margarete. Margarete then removed by means of poisoned. But we can be sure the culprit is not the stepmother. Because she had died many years earlier.

Besides Margarete von Waldeck, Maria Sophia Margaretha Catharina von Erthal of Germany is also touted as the original Snow White. As Margaret, Maria Sophia family also manages the mine workers dwarf. His father was the owner of the mirror factory that was popular among the nobility as a "mirror honesty". Maria Sophia also died from poisoning, possibly by her ambitious stepmother, Claudia Elisabeth von Reichenstein.

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