Birk and Roland’s previous wife ?
Other than Roland’s ‘s wish , one of the biggest mysteries that people want to know about Sofia the first is what happened to the Biological parents before Miranda and Roland got married. The three most likely outcomes are either they died , they left or they went missing ?
Questions about the Biological parents have been brought to Craig’s attention before but he has not yet revealed what has happened to them . He may however reveal what happened to them one day just not right now. ( I believe he had a tweet saying he would do so after the show ends but I couldn’t find it )
While we don’t know their fates just yet , we have gotten some information about them through twitter.
With Sofia’s biological dad , Birk came from the kingdom of Freezenberg and met Miranda who came from the kingdom of Galdiz. Together they moved to Enchanica and had Sofia as their daughter. At some point though , Birk was no longer with Miranda and Sofia and they were left running the shoe shop together in the Village of Dunwiddie.
Some tweets about Birk have mentioned that Birk is a sailor, that his been gone for a while and that he looks like Sofia but his personality is not as much like hers.
So overall , all we know about him is
His name is Birk Balthazar
He came from the Kingdom of Freezenberg
His daughter takes after his looks but when it comes to his personality , not as much.
His been gone for a while
With Roland’s previous wife all we know about her is that she was the previous Queen before Miranda and that her and Roland’s marriage was not an arranged one.
That’s pretty much all we know about her. Unlike Birk she doesn’t even have an official name :/
So that’s all the official information we have about them so far but is there any clues in the actual show ? Now , down below is just my own interpretation that I’ve come too from watching the series so take it with a grain of salt but lets start of with Birk.
In the episode “The Princess stays in the picture” in season 2 , Sofia reveals she started to sail at the age of four and that she knows how to sail around big waves.
It was presumed that Miranda taught Sofia but in the episode “Her Royal Spyness” in season 3 , its revealed that Miranda had been taking sailing lessons to surprise King Roland with a sailing trip.
So this indicates that Miranda may have not known how to sail until this particular episode meaning someone else must have taught Sofia instead. When this was brought to Craig’s attention, he was a little secretive about it.
So if Birk was a sailor , and Miranda didn’t teach Sofia how to sail then its very likely that Birk taught her , meaning he was still in Sofia’s life when she was at the age of four.
Now, that’s not to say Sofia couldn’t have learnt how to sail in her buttercup troop by Miss Hanshaw but lets just say it was Birk who taught her.
If he was around when she was four but wasn’t around when she was 8 then somewhere in between the ages of 5, 6 and 7 , is when Birk somehow wasn’t in the picture anymore.
For me I have a feeling it was when Sofia was of the age of 5. During the song in “Dad’s and daughters day” Sofia has no idea what to sing about when it gets to her turn and runs of upset.
“When I was five , my dad and I , Uh… uh ………uh.” – Sofia
Now obviously Roland wasn’t her dad back then so Sofia wouldn’t have had anything memorable about them both to sing about when she was five , so no wonder it was difficult and upsetting for her to sing about. But I feel like this moment may have been more upsetting for Sofia because she would have had to think about herself being five at a time where Birk wasn’t around anymore.
If she was given the verse about being four I don’t think it would have been as upsetting for her because when she was four this was the age Birk taught her how to sail but for some reason the writer’s gave her the verse of being five ? This was probably because she didn’t have a Dad at all back then.
Another reason I think he wasn’t around anymore after Sofia was four is because in the flash back song “Me and my Mom” in the episode “Mom’s the word” she looks a tad younger compared to her 8 year old self where she’s at a age when it was just her and her mum and no one else.
So I don’t think Sofia is 4 or less in the flash back song if Birk was around to teach her how to sail.
With Roland’s previous wife , like other fans of the show I think we’ve actually seen her in one of the portraits around the castle. She’s a woman with a fan with golden hair standing next to Roland who has a moustache.
She’s seen on the stair case wall in Once upon a princess , The Baker King and The Emerald key
In Roland’s room in Once upon a princess and A royal mess
In the Throne room in the curse of princess Ivy and Day of the sorcerer’s
At Royal Prep in Substitute Cedric and Princess Adventure Club
In random hall ways in the castle in A royal mess , The baker King and In Cedric we trust
And in the attic in the Ghostly Gala
So this is all the information I could really gather about them. If anyone wants to share their thoughts on what they think happened to both of them then feel free :) Its always interesting hearing people’s headcannons/theories on things like this :)
But if you want to know what I think , I believe Birk left when Sofia was five and has been gone for a while because he wanted a life of sailing again where he could go on adventures and go exploring. When Craig said Sofia has got not as much of his personality , I think he had a bit of a adventure side which Sofia inherited but the rest of his personality is pretty much the opposite to hers. I also think Sofia was pretty okay with it just being her and her mum after he left and was pretty content on it just being the two of them. And while it does take Sofia a while to call Roland her dad , I personally feel like she prefers Roland as a dad than Birk but that’s just me.
As for Roland’s previous wife I personally think she died. Maybe even in child birth. Sadly, its quite traditional for Disney to kill of Mothers and if this really is her in all these portraits then I don’t think Roland and her had a divorce or had a bad relationship if he has her portrait all over the castle. But those are just my thoughts :)
Hopefully we do actually find out one day :)
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