Queen Leah

Queen Leah is one of the minor characters in the Disney 1959 animated film, Sleeping Beauty. She is the wife of King Stefan and Aurora’s mother.
In the original film, "Sleeping Beauty", she was modeled by the late Jane Fowler, who acted as a stand-in model for Maleficent and was (possibly) voiced by the late Verna Felton, who also voiced Flora in this film and also voiced Mrs. Jumbo in Dumbo, Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp, and in her last film as Winifred in The Jungle Book. In the first segment of Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, she was voiced by Barbara Dirikson, who also voiced Flora.
==Personality==
Queen Leah's character or personality isn't fully defined during the first film, but she is shown to be quite motherly and protective of Aurora, as well as being a kind ruler over her subjects. However, her name is not mentioned in the movie; she is instead referred to as her husband's "fair queen".
==Appearances==
===Sleeping Beauty===
Queen Leah and her husband are the monarchs of an unnamed European kingdom, possibly Medieval France (live action: Britain). After many years of marriage she gives birth to a beautiful baby daughter which she and her husband name her Aurora. Her happiness is shortened when Maleficent curses her daughter. Devastated, she has to see her daughter taken away by the fairies in order to protect her. Sixteen years later, she is waiting the return of her daughter, when Aurora touches the spindle; the Queen and the entire kingdom are put in a sleep by the good Fairies. When Maleficent is defeated, she and the others awakens and finally meets her daughter which she embraces an cries tears of happiness when she sees her.
===Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams===
In the short segment, King Stefan, Queen Leah, King Hubert, and Prince Phillip all go off on a royal ceremony where Hubert is due to give a speech. Trusting their daughter, Stefan and Leah give Aurora the "keys to the kingdom" while they're away, leaving Aurora as temporary ruler of the kingdom, aided by their fussbudget majordomo, Lord Duke.
===Once Upon a Time===
Though she has yet to make an appearance on the ABC television series, Leah was mentioned in the first episode of the second season, revealing that she was the original sleeping beauty before Maleficent went after Aurora.
==Gallery==
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-64.jpg|Queen Leah and King Stefan with baby Aurora in the prologue.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-310.jpg|Queen Leah showing a young Prince Phillip her daughter.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-637.jpg|Queen Leah and King Stefan seeing the evil fairy, Maleficent arrive.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-690.jpg|Queen Leah and the royals confronted by Maleficent.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-758.jpg|"You're not ascended, Your Excellency."-Queen Leah trying to appease Maleficent.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-807.jpg|Queen Leah and King Stefan watching Maleficent about to give their baby a gift.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-840.jpg|"Uh no!"-Queen Leah horrified when Maleficent curses her daughter to die when she's sixteen years old.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-872.jpg|Queen Leah saddened over her daughter being cursed to die.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-1529.jpg|King Stefan and Queen Leah sadly watching the Three Good Fairies depart to the forest with their daughter to keep her safe.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-5947.jpg|Sixteen years later, Queen Leah sits in the throne room with her husband, waiting for her daughter to return home.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-8360.jpg|Queen Leah and her husband waking up from their enchanted slumber.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-8426.jpg|Queen Leah, her husband, and King Hubert hearing the royal court announce Aurora's return.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-8472.jpg|Queen Leah happy to see her daughter for the first time in sixteen years.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-8510.jpg|Queen Leah crying tears of joy as she reunites with Aurora while embracing her daughter.
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps.com-8557.jpg|Queen Leah and her husband happily watching Aurora share a waltz with Prince Phillip.
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==Trivia==
*Her daughter, Aurora, strongly resembles her.
*Despite not having an active role, Queen Leah is the first mother of a Disney Princess to be alive in the film, the second being Eudora, the mother of Tiana, and the third being Queen Primrose, the mother of Rapunzel. 
**However, in Maleficent, she and Stefan both died, making her and Stefan the only Disney Princess parents to be alive in the original animated film but later deceased in a live action remake.
**Eudora, unlike Queen Leah and Queen Primrose, is not a queen, but an average woman.
*Though King Stefan and Queen Leah don't appear in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, The thrones on which they sit are present in the hall of the castle, where Terra faces the Wheel Master Unversed.
*Because Aurora and Phillip were betrothed, it's possible that she and her husband were also betrothed as well.
*Her alleged voice actress, Verna Felton, also voiced Flora in the film, and she previously voiced Aunt Sarah in "Lady and the Tramp", the Queen of Hearts in "Alice in Wonderland", Fairy Godmother in "Cinderella" and Mrs. Jumbo (one line only) and the Elephant Matriarch in "Dumbo". Later, she also voiced Winifred the Elephant in "The Jungle Book", although the film was released after her death, in October 18, 1967.
**It can be possible that while the film was in production, she voiced Winifred the Elephant before she died in December 14, 1966, just one day before Walt Disney died (December 15, 1966).
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