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A subtrope of the Extranormal Institute, but rather than paranormal power the students have Royal Blood. Conveniently, it mixes every little girl's dream of being a princess with the modern duty of going to school. For that reason, young girls are usually the target audience and, consequently, it tends to be an all-girl school. After all, princes are a less interesting population, aren't they? Even if a Prince Charming sister school exists, their pupils will only ever be seen when invited for Dances and Balls. Due to the audience's age, it will usually be an elementary school. Don't expect lessons like maths or literature, rather poise, curtsy, waltz, good manners, arts, horse riding lessons, and sometimes Fencing, as well. In a nutshell, Lessons in Sophistication. If the setting is Medieval European Fantasy (which is common), expect magic lessons. Don't expect a typical school building, either. Instead, expect something like a huge Bright Castle. More often than not it will be a Boarding School, with a fancy collective dormitory room: pink walls, canopy beds and satin sheets. Expect a banquet room instead of a cafeteria, throne-shaped chairs in the classroom, and a carriage instead of a school bus. The school dance will be a fancy ball in a dedicated ballroom. The students will wear a Pimped-Out Dress on a daily basis and a tiara at all times, even in bed. High-Class Gloves may or may not be included. An army of maids will usually take care of them, brought by pupils themselves if not provided by the school. The local Alpha Bitch will be an heiress, from a powerful empire and/or richer family than anybody else. She will usually pick on the "poor" princesses from the smallest kingdoms or with a commoner past.] The main protagonist will usually be of the latter type who never knew she had Royal Blood, or was given a scholarship by an Anonymous Benefactor, making her a perfect Audience Surrogate. Otherwise, she'll be familiar with her royal heritage, but ignorant of the school subjects. Being The Hero, she'll be Spoiled Sweet. Teachers will be kings, queens, or fairies. There is Fridge Logic in this, such as wondering why the monarchs are teaching rather than ruling their countries, or just how many monarchies there are in the world to support such a large student body? In Real Life, schools for royal children never existed. Princesses, as well as other nobles, were home schooled before the advent of compulsory school. Modern princes and princesses attend upper class academies amongst commoners since, logically, there aren't enough royal children to justify a school. Related to Gratuitous Princess, Princess Phase and Lessons in Sophistication. Note: In shojos mangas, schools with the exact appearance of royals academies will show up frequently. They're set in a castle, including a ball room, but it's co-educational and students wear ordinary uniforms because they are filthy rich rather than royal. Examples include Mei-chan no Shitsuji school, Ohtori Academy, Ouran Academy, St. Marie Academy, and so on. A case could be made for including Hope's Peak in the list, but that turned out to be very false advertising. Works set in these exclusive schools will almost certainly have a Cast Full of Rich People. |
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The School for Good and Evil (2022): Like in the book (see the Literature section), the school for Good teaches students into being princes and princesses. The uniforms used in the book are dropped here, and girls wear magnificent varied princesses dresses. | |
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Similar to the case of My Next Life As a Villainess, in Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte, due to the fact that only nobles are capable of using magic, Royal Academy of Magic's student body are all aristocrats. | |
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Winx Club: Alfea College is a downplayed version: It's primary a Wizarding School for fairies. However, about three of the six main characters are princesses, and four other students are princesses as well (Galatea from Melody, Krystal from Linphea, and Roxy from Earth.) Plus Alfea is a Bright Castle with a ball room. | |
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Go! Princess Pretty Cure: The aptly named Noble Academy fits many of the requirements. It's described as a ladies and gentlemen's school, the students are obliged to greet each other in a polite way, there is a ballroom and dance lessons for the Dances and Balls that take place here...It's downplayed, however, as the only students who get "princess lessons" (like learning to serve tea, apply make-up or make a ball gown) are the three (later four) protagonists, thanks to Miss Siamour, and in private classes. | |
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Modern Villainess is set in an Alternate History modern Japan where the peerage system (abolished in real-life in 1947) remains. This means the novel simply carbon-copied the Gakushūin as mentioned in the Real Life section, bland-named to Gakushūkan. | |
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Tearmoon Empire: The academia Saint Noel is a co-ed, elite school reserved to royalty and high nobility. There is a homecoming ball, and even luxury shops (that sell jewelry or fancy dresses) inside the enclosure of the school. | |
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Sofia the First: Royal Prep is a rare co-educated version, run by the three fairies from Sleeping Beauty, and with interventions from the Disney Princess team. Sofia is a Naïve Newcomer here, because she recently became princess by adoption. There are a few pupils and they are from all around the world, to justify the number problem evoked above. But you can wonder how they are not late for school every morning. | |
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The Princess Bride: In order to marry Prince Humperdinck, Buttercup has to attend royalty school for three years, and is given the title of Princess of Hammersmith (which was part of the Florinese property but nobody ever paid attention to it) because the Prince couldn't marry a commoner. | |
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Descendants: Auradon Prep fits many of the requirements; notably some students are royals because their parents were, and princesses are one of the popular group of kids in the spin-off web series School of secrets. | |
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Barbie: Barbie: Princess Charm School: Said school revolves around this trope, and yet it subverts it in many ways. The academy is a high school, and the setting is Present Day, although each student has a Fairy Companion. They wear mundane uniforms, ball dresses being for the coronation day. The school isn't princesses-only, a good portion of students are ladies royal in training. Apart from this it's very classical: tiaras are part of the uniform, (and lockers are topped with these too) the cafeteria looks like a normal one until you notice the crystal and silver cutlery, there is a school attended by princes next door, and students travel by carriage. The protagonist, Blair, is a commoner Fish out of Water entered after winning a lady royal scholarship in a lottery. Until it's revealed she was a honest-to-God princess all along. Barbie in Rock 'n Royals: The aptly named Royalty Camp is a summer camp version of this; thus the activities are more playful than usual and include magic, unicorns grooming, arts, horse riding and tea parties. |
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Princess Academy: The particularity here is that the girls are not of Royal Blood, but are still educated as princesses, so the best student can marry the prince and become a princess for real. The “school� aspect of this trope turns out to be even more important than the “royal� part: the academy is the first access to formal education the students have ever had and the key to raising their families out of poverty. | |
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Girl Genius: The baron's school onboard Castle Wulfenbach. The baron, who is also dictator of most of Europe, takes the children of the rulers of every province he has conquered to go to school. While the children's parents and the older children are well aware that they are there to guarantee their parents' good behavior, they are given a first-class education (both general education and in statecraft) and encouraged to become Royals Who Actually Do Something (to subvert Decadent Court) and make friends (so they will become more reluctant to go to war with each other when they inherit their respective thrones). | |
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In The School for Good and Evil, the School for Good teaches every girl how to be a princess, but only a few graduate into this in fairy tales afterwards. Most are children of former heroines, and already have the title. Not to mention the pink uniforms, Bright Castle-like building, or nymphs and fairies to serve everyone. | |
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Princess Ugg: Being a Pretty Princess Powerhouse from a barbarian kingdom who Never Learned to Read, the eponymous character has trouble fitting into the princess academy. | |
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Secret Society of Second-Born Royals: Strathmore High school in Illyria is this during school year, as apparently all students there are of royal blood. However, we won't see much of this, as the institution secretly overlap with Superhero School during summer classes. It influence the school appearance, that is very modern-looking. | |
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The Jewel palace and the Royal palace in Lady Jewelpet are exactly this, except the female students are called ladies. Still, they train to become the Top Lady, who then is crowned Queen. The male students are called princes, and tasks are essentially around poise and manners (how to properly sit at a table, take a pet for a walk, correspondence art, carrying a princess, etc.) | |
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Played with in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!. The school that most of the story takes place in is technically not exclusive to nobility and royalty as it's required by law that everyone with magic in the kingdom attend it when they turn 15. It's just that the ability to use magic is so insanely rare among commoners (with Maria being the only one among the current student body, and the first one in the past 10 years) that it ends up leaning in that direction anyways. | |
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Little Princess School by the infamous Mockbuster studio, VÃdeo Brinquedo, is about ripoffs of the Disney Princess clique going to school. | |
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The YouTube fan series Princess Academy by Pattycake productions. All Disney princesses (including the non official) live in a palace where they apparently don't do any studying still (Even if they have a museum of ancient history as showed in the cross-over with the series The Villains Lair). | |
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In Cabin Pressure, the crew are hired to fly the prepubescent King of Liechtensteinnote which in real life is a Principality— to Britain for a new term at his private school, which apparently has a large number of various other royals amongst its students. Maxi is failing to make friends by pulling rank as the only reigning King, and is apparently bullied by the Sheikh of Qatar. | |
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The Princess Academy in Petite Princess Yucie, where the daughters of kings attend to learn magic, dance, etiquette and art. More specifically, they train in order to be the "Platinum Princess", who'll be able to wear the Eternal Tiara, which can grant any wish. | |
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Regal Academy: It's set in the fairy tale world and the teachers are heroes and heroines of fairy tales, and thus are often royalty. The students are the grandchildren of these former heroes and other heroes and villains and thus also royalty. However, it's downplayed, as not all the students are royals and the classes are mostly about magic. | |
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Sea Princesses averts most of the usual attributes associated with this trope. While everyone attending the school is royalty, the school is co-ed, and is not devoted to teaching children how to be princes and princesses. Rather it seems to teach a normal curriculum (or, at least, normal for an undersea school). | |
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Barbie: Princess Charm School: Said school revolves around this trope, and yet it subverts it in many ways. The academy is a high school, and the setting is Present Day, although each student has a Fairy Companion. They wear mundane uniforms, ball dresses being for the coronation day. The school isn't princesses-only, a good portion of students are ladies royal in training. Apart from this it's very classical: tiaras are part of the uniform, (and lockers are topped with these too) the cafeteria looks like a normal one until you notice the crystal and silver cutlery, there is a school attended by princes next door, and students travel by carriage. The protagonist, Blair, is a commoner Fish out of Water entered after winning a lady royal scholarship in a lottery. Until it's revealed she was a honest-to-God princess all along. | |
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Barbie in Rock 'n Royals: The aptly named Royalty Camp is a summer camp version of this; thus the activities are more playful than usual and include magic, unicorns grooming, arts, horse riding and tea parties. | |
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