Lois Chapman gets paid to dress up as her favourite Disney princess, Snow White, and believes the 'magic' of the widely-criticised new film is being eroded by naysayers

THERE is a real Snow White — and like the classic fairytale heroine she is treated as a princess by her loved ones. Snow-White Jennifer Morphy is believed to be the only person in the world named

The dwarfs. The casting. The politics of the lead actress. And that wig! Is Disney’s live-action remake of the classic film doomed by culture war skirmishes?

But it also gives “Snow White” an uncanny quality, with all human characters but the dwarfs being played by real people. As if to Band-Aid over this, one of the woodsmen is played by an actor of short stature (George Appleby) whose presence seems like ...