Helen Kingsleigh

Helen Kingsleigh is a character in Tim Burton's 2010 live-action adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. She is the mother of Alice and Margaret, and the widowed wife of Charles Kingsleigh. She is played by English actress Lindsay Duncan.
==Appearances==
===Alice in Wonderland===
Helen lives with her daughter Alice a 21-year-old girl, discussing here that she needs a proper dress for the party. On their way, she prepares Alice for the engagement party and goes with her in Ascot Manor. The two approach Lord and Lady Ascot, explaining to Alice that Hamish is waiting to dance with her just as Helen talks with Lord Ascot, grieving that if only her husband Charles was in the party to which he gives his condolence to Helen's late husband. She later attends proposal between Hamish and Alice to which the proposal was interrupted when Alice chases the White Rabbit leading to Underland.
Later as Alice returns back to the Ascot Manor area, she gazes upon Alice about what she did when she was in Underland.
===Alice Through the Looking Glass===
As Alice returns from Asia to London, she happily reunites with her mother. As a nearby head manager named James Harcourt approaches Alice's family, Alice explains that she encountered complications on the way back from Asia to London as Harcourt explains to Alice that Lord Ascot passed away while she was at sea. Back at home, Alice talks with her mother about Hamish's proposition to which she explains that Hamish has been married last year. She and her daughter arrive at the Ascots' residence and encounter Hamish who is now married with Alexandra as the new Lady Ascot. Hamish offers Alice to retire the vessel in order to redeem the house, to which Alice refuses, much to Alice's mother noticing her daughter's refusal. During an argument, Alice is told that she must face the changes the company will do to the Wonder, warning her that Time is going against her and Alice is not using time management properly, to which Alice refuses and ends up in a sorrowful mood about her argument instead of accepting the changes the company will do with the Wonder with Time being an obstacle to Alice.
She next appears when Alice ends up in the asylum explaining to her that she has been acting strangely to which Alice escapes from Dr. Bennet and a group of workers and into the Ascots' residence so she can use the Chronosphere in a plan to save Tarrant Hightopp's life.
Later when Alice returns to the real world after reuniting Tarrant with his missing family, Hamish and Harcourt tell Helen to sign the deed immediately to which Alice explains that Time is not an enemy, telling her mother to do so, saying that the Wonder doesn't matter because she loves her mother more. After Hamish boldly insults Alice by calling her headstrong and dubbing her as "everyone's clock", she tells him off by saying that he's not a nice man and that she's glad Alice rejected his proposal. Helen takes the contract and rips it in half and tells Hamish that Alice can do whatever she decides to choose and so can she and bids them a good day. Though having lost the house, Helen is able to start a new life and business with her daughter, in which they will run a better and more successful trading company than the Ascots, which she proclaims they will run out in a year. With Alice's company repossessed, Alice and her mother prepare to set sail once again as Harcourt joins alongside the two onboard the Wonder.
==Trivia==
*It is stated that in the books that she died along with her husband in a fire accident at their home, where Alice, Margaret, and Alice's brother were the only three children who survived in the fire.
==Gallery==
===Alice in Wonderland===
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===Alice Through the Looking Glass===
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