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Any time a noble or royal lady has a title that is winter themed.
Say you're a [[The High Queen|queen]] or a [[Everything's Better
Well, unless you live near the equator, the solution is simple. Choose a word closely related to winter. "Snow" and "Ice" are the most common, but others will do, as long as it evokes the feeling of the cold north. Then make one of your titles "The (winter word) Queen" or "The (winter word) Princess". It doesn't matter what your actual rank or title is. Just use that format.
Then make sure your [[Costume Porn|wardrobe]] consists of mostly shades of [[True-Blue Femininity|blue]], silver, [[Graceful Ladies Like Purple|purple]], [[Woman in White|and especially white]] (but not pink, even if [[Princesses Prefer Pink]]). A [[Pimped-Out Dress]] and [[Pimped-Out Cape]] are obvious choices, but you could also have a [["Happy Holidays" Dress]], a [[Sexy Santa Dress]], or even a [[Fur Bikini]]. [[Pretty in Mink|Fur trim]] (white or gray), [[Everything's Sparkly
Now watch how everyone speaks of you, with this title. You're now even more incredible in their eyes. You're like some kind of spirit or goddess to them, even if this won't actually give an indication of your personality. You can be good, evil or anything in between. You also could either [[An Ice Person|have super powers]] (especially using [[Silver Has Mystic Powers]]) or just be a [[Muggle]]. They won't really know, and that's just the way you want it.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Queen Freya of Frigia in ''[[Flash Gordon (
* Lumi The Snow Queen in ''[[Fables]]'' ("Lumi" is Finnish and actually is the most common word in the language for "snow").
* Though the last part of her name isn't royal, ''[[Alpha Flight]]'''s Snowbird fits the trope in every other way. Of course, when people treat her like the demigoddess she ''is'', it can be taken literally. She has no ice powers, but her ability to [[Animorphism|turn into a white-colored version of any animal]]--with a preference for those from the Arctic--drives this trope home in its own way.
* Mizumi, the Queen of Moraine, in ''Return to [[
* Tora Olafsdotter AKA Ice of ''[[DC Comics]]'' is a princess and has, you guessed it, ice powers.
== [[Film]] ==
* The Ice Princess from ''[[
* The Ice Princess from ''[[The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl]]''....although she genuinely possesses the title, as her father - the Ice King - is a gigantic humanoid composed ''entirely of ice'', and he really is King of an ice kingdom.
== [[Literature]] ==
* "[[
* "The Lady of the Ice Garden" by Kara Dalkey is this story [[Recycled in Space|retold in twelfth-century Japan]].
* ''The Snow Queen'' by Joan D. Vinge is the same story expanded upon... [[Recycled in Space|in space!]]
* ''The Winter King'' by Bernard Cornwell is a rare male title. It was the byname of Frederick V of the Palatinate, although in that case it was more of an insult.
* The White Witch in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'' doesn't quite fit this in her title, but the fact that she both declares herself queen and covers the land in winter makes up for it.
* The Norn queen Utuk'ku from ''[[Memory,
* ''The Winter Queen'' by Jane Stevenson is a novel about the actual Queen of Bohemia and her (fictional) husband-in-exile who is also an ex-African prince, slave, and theology student.
* Queen Selenay of the [[Heralds of Valdemar]] series wears white exclusively -- but this is justified since she, like all Heralds, wears white on duty. Her husband, Prince-consort Daren, is a [[White Prince]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'' plays with this trope by having the party's first real lead on the Queen (and DG's identity) being in an ice-encased palace.
* ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'': The team's [[Mentor]], Udonna, is a sorceress with a snow motif. While not actually royalty, she has a regal presence and the series likes to evoke [[Fairy Tale Tropes]].
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** The roleplaying game makes it clear that there is an entire group of Ice Witches who can use that Lore, and Tzarinas have to be at least competent with it. This doesn't apply to Tzars since only women can use ice magic.
* Jezra Wagner, the "Ice Queen", is a spectre that haunts the mountains of Barovia in the [[Ravenloft]] setting. Not royal, but a noblewoman in life; her ice-pale looks and flesh-freezing touch certainly fit this trope.
* In ''[[
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* The Ice Princess from ''[[Spyro the Dragon|Spyro: A Hero's Tail]]''
* ''[[King's Quest V|King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]'' had the Snow Queen, Icebella.
* ''[[
* ''[[League of Legends]]'' features Ashe, an [[An Ice Person|ice magic-wielding]] [[The Archer|archer]] who recently gained monarchy over her arctic homeland through a [[Arranged Marriage|self-arranged political marriage]] and has a Queen skin (with themed dress and crown) to reflect it.
* The third game in the [[Dark Parables]] series for PC, ''Rise of the Snow Queen'', features guess which fairy tale character as its antagonist? And it takes place in the Snowfall Kingdom to boot.
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* The Ice Queen Stone in ''[[Golden Sun Dark Dawn]]'' is inhabited by a spirit who appears as this. There's also the [[One-Scene Wonder]] Nowell, called "Noble" in the Japanese version, who is [[An Ice Person|mentioned to specialize in ice powers]], though she's not actually royalty.
* One racetrack featured in [[Mario Kart|''Mario Kart 7'']] unintentionally made [[Super Mario Galaxy|Rosalina]] one of these.
* Although not technically a noble herself, Lizleihi Justica von Einzbern, one of the original founders of the Holy Grail War ritual in [[Fate/stay
* From [[Touhou]] we have [[An Ice Person|Letty Whiterock]]."Spirit Of Winter."
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The Snow Queen from ''[[Oglaf]]''. She is also a [[Fisher King|Fisher Queen]], as satisfying her brings about the start of spring. Unfortunately, as she is literally [[An Ice Person|the Snow Queen]], men can find themselves in a, er, [[Tongue
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* The [[Rankin Bass]] special ''Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July'' gives an [[Alternate Continuity|alternate backstory]] for the glowing nose of the titular Rudolph, explaining that it was a power bestowed on him in infancy by the Lady Boreal, a [[Winter Royal Lady]] who is sort of a personification of the Northern Lights.
* The Minister of Winter in the ''[[Disney Fairies|Tinkerbell]]'' movies.
* Ice Queen from ''[[
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