The Good Queen is a deleted minor character from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. She is the mother of Snow White and the first wife of Snow White's father, the King.
Background
Not much is known about her (she was not mentioned in the movie, nor were there any images of her). There were plans to incorporate her into the movie's opening, although it was cut due to the scene in question potentially violating the Hayes Code.
However, a vintage sticker book was published by Lesieur-Cotelle & Associates S.A (R.C.B 9691). It was given to Disney enthusiast Alexandre Milazzo by a friend. It contains a Walt Disney Productions copyright and a Mir Supe is credited as editor. In it is a picture of the artist's version of her and the story, which is written in French. The scene of her sewing beside her window is reminiscent of the Grimm Brothers' story.
She can also be seen in the 1952 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Golden Book. In it, she sat sewing by a window one winter's day when she pricked her finger with her needle. When she saw the blood, she wished for a daughter with lips as red as blood, skin as white as snow, and hair as black as ebony. In the spring, she gives birth to a baby girl that she and her husband, the King, named Snow White. Sadly, she passes away shortly and the King, saddened and devastated over her death, eventually remarries, making Grimhilde the new Queen. And then when he passes away, she takes over the kingdom.
Aside from Snow White's hair and eye color, which she inherited from her father, she's said to look identical to her mother. The Queen's hair color varied between the sources: in the French sticker book, she was depicted as blonde, while the Belgian one as well as the Golden Book adaptation depicted her as brown.
Appearances
Snow White
Lorena Andrea portrays the Queen in the live-action adaption of the 1937 animated film.
The queen married a king of an unnamed kingdom and they had a daughter, whom they named Snow White, because she was born in a snowstorm. They raised their daughter with love and taught her how to rule with kindness. However, as the years went by, the queen became deathly ill and died during Snow White's childhood. The king later married an unnamed woman, who eventually revealed herself to be an evil sorceress. The king's new wife sent him, unknown to the king, off to deal with a conflict in another kingdom and he mysteriously disappeared, which meant Snow White's stepmother became the sole ruler of the kingdom. When Snow White was tricked into eating a poisoned apple by the queen disguised as a hag, the queen revealed that she killed the king years ago after tricking him into leaving, much to Snow White's horror, just as she fell into a deathly sleep. After Snow White was revived, she and her friends freed the kingdom from the Evil Queen's tyranny where she was crowned the new queen and married her love interest, Jonathan, allowing the two of them to restore the kingdom to its original state her parents had built and ruled upon.
Printed media
Mirror, Mirror
In this book, the Queen's name is Katherine. Here, she is revealed to be sisters with Snow White's evil stepmother, Ingrid. After their mother passed away, Katherine and Ingrid ran away to escape their abusive father, then wound up at a farmer's place. Katherine is noted to enjoy her new life and to be known for growing beautiful apples, calling them Red Fire apples, while her sister loathed it, wanted nothing more than to leave it behind and start anew, becoming infatuated with dark magic and starting her apprenticeship with a sorcerer. When Katherine married King Georg, she became Queen and took Ingrid in as her lady-in-waiting. Some years after Snow White was born, Katherine was killed by her jealous sister who then cast a love spell on the king to marry him and claim the throne for herself.
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