| “ | And you're not offended, Your Excellency? | „ |
| ~ Queen Leah |
Queen Leah (also known as The Queen or simply Leah for short) is a minor character in Disney 16th animated film of 1959, Sleeping Beauty. As the queen of an unnamed French kingdom, she is Princess Aurora's mother and King Stefan's wife.
In the original animated film, she was played by the late Jane Fowler, who also acted as a stand-in model for Maleficent in the same film. In Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, she was voiced by Barbara Dirikson, who also voices Flora. In Maleficent, she was renamed as Queen Leila, being portrayed by Hannah New.
Her Good Ranking[]
Her Heroic Deeds[]
- She and King Stefan are benevolent monarchs of the kingdom, its residents, and their servants.
- She and Stefan are loving parents over Aurora, as shown when they wanted to make sure she is safe from Maleficent's curse by sending their daughter to live with the Three Good Fairies until her sixteenth birthday.
- She and Stefan reunited with Aurora after the curse on the kingdom is lifted.
- In Disney Princess Enchanted Tales Follow Your Dreams, she, along with Stefan, trusted Aurora to look after the kingdom, its residents and their servants, while they go out of town for a royal meeting, along with King Hubert and Prince Phillip.
- At the end of the first segment, she attends Aurora's banquet, along with Stefan, Hubert, Phillip, Lord Duke, and the Three Good Fairies.
Why She Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- Like her daughter, her husband, and his best friend, Leah cannot pass the in-story or general standards for many reasons:
- Like Aurora, Leah contributes very little to the original film's plot because she only appears in the beginning and didn’t show up again until the end of the film, not counting her cameo of being one of the kingdom residents that were all put under a sleeping spell.
- Leah heavily fails the admirable standards very hard to Prince Phillip and the Three Good Fairies (who all played more heroic roles in defeating Maleficent and saving the kingdom).
- She is only amounted to spend most of the film worrying about Aurora's safety and being put under a sleeping spell, along with her daughter, her husband, King Hubert, and the other kingdom residents and staff, until they were all freed by Prince Phillip at the very end of the film.
- Adding insult to injury is that her kind traits and concern over Aurora’s safety just counts as generic kindness, which is not enough for her to pass the admirable standards.
- She also suffers from Fridge Brilliance as she didn’t know that her failure to invite Maleficent would result in the latter placing a curse on Aurora.
- Overall, she is just a generic kind ruler who does not perform any definitive heroic actions that cannot afford to go beyond the baseline, making her far too bog-standard.
- She did not formally explain their lack of invitation to Maleficent; instead, she was fooled by Maleficent into claiming she's offended by their forgetfulness and passively allowed her to offer her "gift" for Aurora.
- Even so, this was out of fear of angering Maleficent, although it could be argued that she and Stefan were unintentionally responsible for causing the conflict of the entire film as they did more to enrage Maleficent even more by passively letting one of the Good Fairies to insult the latter, which led to Aurora being cursed by Maleficent.
Trivia[]
- Due to her being the first mother in a Disney Princess film to remain alive, she is also the first HB Disney Mother to be a human.
External Links[]
- Queen Leah on the Disney Wiki
- Queen Leah on the Heroes Wiki
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