Princess Academy Characters

Small and Scrappy Miri is a fourteen-year-old girl who's small for her age—so small, in fact, that she suspects it's the reason her father won't let her work in the quarries (much to her dismay):...

Social Anxiety Britta is the only girl at the princess academy who originally comes from the lowlands, and because of this distinction she's pretty much ostracized by the other girls. The other gir...

Best Friends Forever? Peder Doterson is totally boy-next-door material. He's cute, funny, and has been around for as long as Miri can remember. He and Miri hang out all the time and get along great...

Oh boy. Katar's not the nicest girl at the princess academy, and she and Miri don't exactly get along—after all, they're both vying for the coveted position of academy princess, and Katar makes i...

Tutor Olana isn't quite as mean as Miss Trunchbull, but she's no Miss Honey either. The teacher charged with running the princess academy is the kind of no-nonsense woman who literally throws girls...

All of the academy girls come from Mount Eskel and have lived in the village together their whole lives, with the exception of Britta. Through their shared goal, they band together to learn their l...

Miri's father is a model papa bear, always there to save his little girls. When Marda gets hurt in a quarry accident, he immediately rushes in to save her, and when Miri questions why he doesn't le...

Because she's the older sister and the one who gets to work in the quarries, Marda has always been a source of envy for Miri—she assumes that Marda is smarter, bigger, and more valuable to the fa...

Oh, Prince Steffan… the apple of so many girls' eyes. He's a royal prince and a catch to be sure, but is he really that different from any other boy? When Miri first sees him, she's struck by how...

Knut is kind of like the friendly version of Filch in Harry Potter—he's the mostly silent handyman who works at the academy and keeps everything running. He may keep to himself at Tutor Olana's b...

Peder and Esa's mother Doter is quite the wise lady. She always has some kind of insight into the situation at hand, and is also there to comfort Miri when she starts crying about not being allowed...

Dan the bandit is ironically named for the first king of Danland, but he follows none of the realm's rules. He's a mean dude who's just out for personal profit, and he's reckless enough to make the...