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A [[Magical Girl]] trope. Usually more heavily linked to the [[Cute Witch]], especially travellers from other realms or planets, than other types of magical girls.
 
Basically the protagonist is a magic user who [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses|is a candidate to become Queen back in her home realm/planet/whatever]]. She has come to Earth as part of a test of character to prove she is queen material, either by making the world a better place with her magic, or by directly competing with a (usually friendly) rival (who often is at least somewhat of a [[Dark Magical Girl]]) to accrue some sort of [[Plot Coupon]] to prove her worthiness. That or it is just tradition for magical princesses to spend some time on Earth before they can become queen. While doing so she usually lives with some [[Muggle Foster Parents]] who may or may not know she is magical.
 
Not all magical travellers have this plot element, some of them just visit earth out of curiosity and others are sent there to make it a better place or reconnect it with their home realm which may be in jeopardy but don't have the Queen competition element (so this trope doesn't include Princesses who would become queen anyway regardless of if they ever visited the planet e.g. ''[[Magical Princess Minky Momo]]'' and ''[[Sally the Witch]]'' who are magical princesses and Earth visitors, but aren't being specifically tested, don't count - Sally ''does'' have magical tests, but these are in regards to her magical skills than her queenly aptitude). Note if the [[Magical Girl]] in question never leaves her realm but is still competing for Queendom then she probably does count, but visiting Earth is fairly common to this trope.
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* ''[[Ultra Maniac]]'' has this in the anime but not in the manga, where Nina Sakura merely came to Earth from the Magic Kingdom as a [[Inept Mage|hopeless]] [[New Transfer Student|transfer student]]. In the anime she is searching for five "[[Plot Coupon|Holy Stones]]" so she can marry the Prince of the Magic Kingdom. She is competing with her childhood friend Maaya, an anime only character.
* ''[[Sugar Sugar Rune]]'' Chocolat and Vanilla are competing in order to become Queen of the Magical World by seeing who can steal the most "[[Plot Coupon|hearts]]" from humans.
* ''[[Majokko Meg Chan-chan]]'' was both the first magical girl show to introduce a rival, and it was pretty much the [[Trope Maker]] for this trope too. Meg-chan is competing with another extra dimensional traveller called Non for the throne. She has a [[Muggle Foster Parents|Muggle Foster Family]] (other than the mother, who is also a witch) and she herself has no concept of family coming from a realm where families don't exist. In the end, {{spoiler|they BOTH fail the test and both pretty much end up right back where they started.}}
* Played with rather interestingly in ''[[Hana Nokono Ko Lunlun]]''. The titular [[Cute Witch]] had to find the [[MacGuffin]] (a magical flower) in her travels -- but it was nor for ''herself'' but to enable someone else (the Prince of the Flower Star) to legitimately ascend to the throne. On the other hand, the [[Big Bad]] Togenishia was a [[Vain Sorceress]] from the Flower Star who wanted Lunlun to find the [[Plot Coupon]] and then ''steal'' it from her so she could be crowned as Queen instead. {{spoiler|Lunlun succeeds, Togenishia is defeated... ands it turns out that the Prince was Lunlun's [[Mysterious Protector]], whom she's in love with. He steps out of the succesion line, gives the Flor to his brother who's crowned in his place, and marries Lunlun to live on Earth with her.}}
* ''[[Petite Princess Yucie]]'' never visits Earth but she is a [[Magical Girl]] (albeit in a seinen series) competing with other mages for the title of Queen.
* ''[[Hime Chan-chan no Ribon]]'' has a variation on this. The titular [[Magical Girl]] isn't the princess, but it's her job to test out the magic ribbon Erika, her magic world counterpart, created to prove that Erika is worthy as a princess.
* This is the premise of the third season of ''[[Onegai My Melody]]'', where My Melody and Kuromi are being considered as the new Princess of Mary Land.
* This drives the plot of ''[[Magical Angel Sweet Mint]]''.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[PansPan's Labyrinth]]'' features easily one of the [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|darkest]] examples of the trope. Ofelia must go through three dangerous trials to prove to the Faun that her "essence" is still intact, and she is worthy to return to the Underworld as Princess Moanna, all while dodging her [[Complete Monster|sadistic]] Fascist step-father. {{spoiler|In the end, she's shot to death - but, [[Bittersweet Ending|happily]], death turns out to be a requirement of [[Fridge Brilliance|being a princess of the Underworld]].}}
** Assuming, of course, that all the fairies aren't simply the product of Ofelia's imagination...
 
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] TCG references this trope with the card "Trials of the Princess" which is used to turn either [[Magical Girl|White Magician Pikeru]] or [[Dark Magical Girl|Ebon Magician Curran]] into Princess Pikeru or Princess Curran.
 
== Video Games ==
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