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Princess Ozma

Princess Ozma of Oz
Oz character
Princess Ozma by John R. Neill.gif
First appearance The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
Created by L. Frank Baum
Information
Aliases Tippetarius or Tip
Species Human (fairy)
Gender Female (as Ozma)
Male (as Tip)
Occupation Supreme ruler of Oz
Title Queen of Oz (officially)
Princess of Oz (more commonly)
Family Pastoria (father)
Lurline (mother)
Ozana (first cousin)
Ozga (cousin)
Mist Maidens (cousins)
Children N/A, though Jack Pumpkinhead thinks of himself as her son, and by that standard you would also call the Sawhorse and Gump her children.
Relatives Queen Lurline's fairy band; L. Frank Baum said she descends from a long line of fairy Queens

Princess Ozma is a fictional character from the Land of Oz, created by L. Frank Baum. She appears in every book of the Oz series except the first, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).

She is the rightful ruler of Oz, and Baum indicated that she would reign in the fairyland forever, being immortal.

Baum described her physical appearance in detail, in The Marvelous Land of Oz: "Her eyes sparkled as two diamonds, and her lips were tinted like a tourmaline. All adown her back floated tresses of ruddy gold, with a slender jeweled circlet confining them at the brow." As originally illustrated by John R. Neill, she fit this description; however, in most subsequent Oz books, Ozma's hair became darker.

While still an infant, Ozma, the baby daughter of the former King Pastoria of Oz, was given to the witch Mombi of the North by the Wizard of Oz. Mombi transformed Ozma into a boy and called him "Tip" (short for Tippetarius) in order to prevent the rightful ruler of Oz from ascending to the throne. Thus, Ozma spent her entire childhood with Mombi in the form of the boy Tip, and had no memory of ever having been a girl. During this time, Tip had managed to create Jack Pumpkinhead who was brought to life by Mombi's Powder of Life. In The Marvelous Land of Oz, Glinda the Good Sorceress discovered what had happened and forced Mombi to turn Tip back into Ozma; ever since then, the Princess has possessed the Throne of Oz (although many realms within Oz remained unaware of her authority).

In some of his last Oz books, namely The Tin Woodman of Oz and Glinda of Oz, L. Frank Baum indicated that Ozma has the appearance of a fourteen-year-old, and is therefore older than Dorothy Gale. By that point in time, Baum had also established that the inhabitants of Oz ceased to age, suggesting that Ozma would always appear to be a beautiful young girl.


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