1. Beast from Beauty and the Beast. He's the most princely, we mean, one look at him and you know he's a prince. Granted, he's immature and selfish, but isn't that how we all picture royalty? Plus he has great character development because of those defects.
2. Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke. He's just as interesting a character as Beast, but he's #2 because he doesn't really appear in his "prince" element in the movie as he's in exile from his kingdom.
3. Prince Albert of York from The King's Speech. Yes, we know he gets crowned king halfway through, but it still counts. He probably cares most about his people, which is why he's #3.
4. Moses from The Ten Commandments. He's a great prince - he builds a freaking city for the Pharaoh. He also seems to be unbiased in his judgements. A bit too melodramatic as a character, we must say.
5. Asbel from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. He's not really portrayed as a prince either, since most of his people get killed, but he does care a lot for his people and tries to exact vengeance for them.
6. Prince Albert from Young Victoria. This guy's a real do-good-er, a visionary. He has people's best interest at heart - especially the underprivileged.
7. Prince John from The Adventures of Robin Hood. He's THE deliciously evil prince that we all love. He's a terrible ruler and we don't think there would be a lot of people volunteering to be his subjects, but his scheming is a joy to watch.
8. Tristan from Stardust. Now here's a guy you wouldn't ever expect to become a king. He's a silly schoolboy, but entertaining enough to make it to this list.
9. Hamlet from Hamlet. We had to go with Sir Olivier here. Yeah, it's really hard for us to get into Shakespeare (maybe we're not deep enough...), but Hamlet's an interesting enough of a character and completely insane.
10. Erik from The Little Mermaid. He's with Tristan on the schoolboy-level, but in comparison to the older Disney princes, his character is rather well-rounded and somewhat developed. We're not so convinced of the dreaminess of this character, though.
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