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| “ | All my life I've always wanted to have one day for myself—not waking up with a pile of work on every shelf! With no hems in need of pressing, and no sleeves in disarray, no wedding gown with a thousand stitches to crochet, and no debt to pay! | „ |
| ~ Queen Erika singing. |
| “ | I don't believe it; the princess sent for me! I'm gonna sing at the castle — me! But I'm not ready. I have to rehearse! I'd better change my dress. Oh what am I talking about? I only have one dress! | „ |
| ~ Erika to Julian. |
Queen Erika, also simply known as Erika, is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Princess Anneliese) in the 2004 direct-to-DVD animated Barbie film, Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper, and is also the main protagonist of the PC version of the movie of the same name. She is a seamstress who was joined to working with others. Likewise, she also like singing for herself that was become a queen of Dulcinea, which were discovered on the journey.
She is played by Barbie Roberts and voiced by Kelly Sheridan in Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper, and Anndi McAfee in the Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper PC game (as a playable character), and her singing voice is provided by Julie Stevens. In the Japanese dub from the movie, she is voiced by Ryōka Yuzuki, who also voiced Clara Drosselmayer, Rapunzel, Princess Odette, and Princess Anneliese. In the Dutch dub, she is voiced by Willemijn Verkaik (in her very first dubbing role), who also voiced Lydia from Barbie and the Diamond Castle and Queen Elsa from Disney's Frozen series.
Appearance[]
Erika is light skin and blue eyes. Erika's hair is slightly wavy and brown, her bangs are held back with a braid. Erika's main dress color is light blue. It has sleeves that go halfway down her arm, with a ribbon and white mesh. The bodice has crossed, pink ribbons down the middle and is blue on the outside. The skirt is blue with white and pink in the middle, with flowers on the white part. Its only dress before her begins disguised as Princess Anneliese.
Erika wearing a blonde wig to look like the princess and a gown with a mixture of colors. It's mainly blue, but has light pink accents. The trim around the bodice is gold and has white down the middle. The skirt is blue, white and yellow. When sleeping in the palace, she wore a pastel yellow nightgown with a white neckline. While singing "The Cat's Meow" to Wolfie, she wore a long pink bathrobe with ruffles at the neckline. Her hair is her natural brown locks.
However, Erika's wedding dress is both white and sapphire blue. It has blue stripes down the bodice and on the skirt. There is a white mesh on the top and the sleeves. The skirt has wavy folds on the bottom. Her veil has three blue roses on the top.
History[]
Erika was born in the kingdom by above of the hill, being born at the same time as Princess Anneliese. Although her family loved Erika, they were so poor, being unable to take care of her by their own. Therefore, they came to Madame Carp to ask for money. When Erika grew up, and with her parents presumably deceased, she had to work as for Madame Carp to pay her parents' debt. While she grieved while working for Madame Carp, she also clinged to the dream of achieve freedom and becoming a singer. One day, while she was singing in the town square, along with her loyal pet, Wolfie, who was collecting the money for Erika, Madame Carp interfered and took all the money Erika had earned. Anneliese and her pet, Serafina arrived, attracted by her singing. After realizing the similarity between them and their common dream of freedom, they quickly became friends and Anneliese invited Erika to sing in the palace anytime.
However, Princess Anneliese and Serafina were kidnapped by the royal advisor, Preminger and his two right-hand minions, Nick and Nack, holding her hostage in a shack in the forest. Julian, Anneliese's teacher suspected of Preminger's deeds, so he contacted Erika and they decided that she would pretend to be Anneliese while he investigated Preminger. While in the castle, Erika met King Dominick, a young man posing as a page who was originally going to marry Anneliese, and Queen Genevieve, to whom she said she was sorry for having run away, awaking Preminger's suspicions. One day, while taking a bath with Wolfie, who was trying to meow, she started singing to him, inviting him to accept his differences. Meanwhile, Dominick was trying to reveal to her his true identity, but left, moved by Erika's singing. Later on, Erika and Dominick sang and spent the rest of the day together. When they said goodbye, Erika expressed Wolfie her insecurities, as Anneliese wasn't back yet and she was falling in love with Dominick.
That night, after Dominick formally asked Erika for marriage, Preminger burst into the room, accompained by two guards who seized Erika, accusing her of being an imposter. He revealed the Queen that Erika was a pauper, telling her that Erika and Julian had hidden Anneliese in the royal mine and made it collapse, killing her and showing Anneliese's ring as a proof. Then, he told the Queen to check Erika's shoulder, where there was no royal birthmark. Preminger's dog, Midas, ripped off Erika's wig, discovering her true hair. While Erika tried to warn the Queen about Preminger's plans, nobody listened to her and she was thrown into the dungeon. Meanwhile, Preminger asked Genevieve for marriage so he could become king and rule the kingdom. The next day, in the dungeon, singing a lullaby to sleep the guard, Erika used her hairpin and hay from her bed to create a hook to get the keys. She opened the cell door and escaped. However, the guard quickly got up and started chasing Erika, who was caught at the end of a hallway by another guard, who told the previous one that he would take Erika to the Queen.
Out of the dungeon, Erika stepped on the guard's foot and tried to escape, but the guard revealed to be Dominick, telling her that he didn't believe Preminger and told her it was time to go, since Preminger and Genevieve's wedding would begin soon. Luckily, when the arrived, Anneliese had already arrived and revealed to her mother the truth about Preminger's trick. Preminger tried to escape, but ended up falling off his horse. Meanwhile, Erika and Anneliese stopped Nick and Nack and the three of them were arrested.
Back in the town, Erika had her debt paid by Anneliese, though Madame Carp's business ended up closing, since the castle stopped ordering their gowns there. She told Dominick that she wanted to go around the world, singing, but before she left, Dominick gave her a ring, agreeing that there weren't commitments. After singing for some time, Erika decided that there was a place where she would like to sing the most, so she returned to Dominick's kingdom, Dulcinea and finally accepted his proposal. In the end, Erika married Dominick in a joint wedding with Anneliese and Julian.
Personality[]
Erika has a strong-willed personality, since despite the difficulties and constant abuse she was living in, she was still determined in being free and becoming a singer. Also, she shows to be caring for her cat, not mattering his differences, as well as a brave personality, since she accepted to pretend to be Princess Anneliese despite the risk of being imprisoned, and when she is, in fact imprisoned, she shows audacity in escaping the dungeon.
Trivia[]
- Erika is the first peasant Barbie to marry royalty and become royalty through marriage.
- She’s the first Barbie character who’s a brunette, the second being Keira in Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar.
- She’s the female version of Tom Canty from the classic novel, The Prince and the Pauper.
See Also[]
External Links[]
- Queen Erika on the Pure Good Wiki
- Queen Erika on the Barbie Movies Wiki
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