Queen Leah

*This article is about Aurora's mother. For the other character called **Leah**, see* Leah

**Queen Leah** is the queen of Aurora's Kingdom, the wife of King Stefan and the mother of Princess Aurora.

## Queen Leah

Queen Leila (Maleficent)Queen Briar Rose (Once Upon a Time)Queen Leah Rose (Descendants)Queen Leah Morningstar (Villains)

### Aliases

Queen OrhianneQueen BeatriceThe QueenMother (by Princess Aurora)Grammy (by Princess Audrey)Your Majesty

### Relatives

Princess Aurora (daughter)King Stefan (husband)Prince Phillip (son-in-law)Unnamed ancestorsKing Henry (father; Maleficent)Phillip Jr (grandson; Once Upon A Time)Princess Audrey (granddaughter;Descendants)Ariana Rose (granddaughter; Descendants)Queen Morningstar (sister; Villains)King Morningstar (brother-in-law; Villains)Princess Tulip (niece; Villains)Queen Mary (mother; early draft of Maleficent)Unnamed children (early draft of Maleficent)

### Occupation

Princess, later Queen of Aurora's KingdomPrincess of another kingdom and Queen consort of Aurora's Kingdom (in A Message for Maleficent)Princess, later Queen of Perceforest Kingdom (Maleficent)Queen, later Grand Queen of Auroria (Descendants)Former princess of Morningstar Kingdom (possibly in Villains)

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Her and Stefan's Castle in Aurora's Kingdom Another kingdom (some books)Human Castle in Perceforest Kingdom (Maleficent)Morningstar Castle in Morningstar Kingdom (Villains)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Verna Felton (unconfirmed voice in Sleeping Beauty)Barbara Dirikson (voice in Enchanted Tales)Judith Maxie (Descendants)Hannah New (Maleficent)

### Appears in

Sleeping BeautyStorybooks & ComicsOnce Upon a Time (mentioned)MaleficentDescendantsA Twisted TaleVillains

### Debut

Sleeping Beauty

Queen Leah is a slender woman with fair skin, pink lips, dark blonde hair, and brown eyes. She wears a dark pink-and-lavender dress, a gold crown, a aqua veil, and a dark magenta cape. In the comic, *Sleeping Beauty And The Prince,* she has aged considerably by her daughter's return, having white hair instead of blonde. She also has similar facial features with her daughter.

In *Descendants*, she is older as 20 years passed; she has more modern (pink) suit, tan skin and dark hair.

## Family

She is married to King Stefan and has a daughter Princess Aurora. When Aurora married Prince Phillip, he became her son-in-law.

In storybooks, particularly *The Wedding Gift*, she is mentioned to have a mother. In *Aurora and the Diamond Crown*, she comes from a long line of royal princesses and queens. This is supported in *Descendants* by Audrey's line, that her royal blood goes back hundreds of years. Aurora's portrait is the seventh.

In the *Maleficent* incarnation, her father is King Henry and she also has an unknown late mother. In the 2012 leaked script, her mother is named "Mary" and is very much alive. In the same script, she also has other children as well, though it's unknown how many and what's their name.

In *Once Upon a Time* show, she has a grandson Phillip Jr.

In *Descendants*, she has two granddaughters Princess Audrey and Ariana Rose, the latter being Audrey's cousin; she's either coming from a sibling of Phillip or Aurora. If that's the case, Leah had another child in this continuity. She, Aurora, Phillip, Audrey and Ariana are part of the **Rose Family**.

In the Villains Series, she has a sister Queen Morningstar, a niece Princess Tulip, and a brother-in-law King Morningstar. In those books, Aurora is not her biological daughter (her mother being Maleficent) but still loves her like one. They with her husband form the **Morningstar Family**.

## Name and portrayal

She didn't even have a name in the movie. She is first named **Leah** in the 1993 book adaptation by A.L. Singer. In some french media, she is named **La Reine Orhianne**, **La Reine Orianne** or **La Reine Beatrice**. However Queen Leah is more used. In *Maleficent* her name is **Queen Leila**, as some names are adapted or changed there. In *Once Upon a Time* rendition, she is named **Briar Rose**.

Her family name isn't revealed; in *Descendants* she is **Leah Rose** and in *Villains* it's possibly she is **Leah Morningstar** (having come from the kingdom and the family with that name).

She is portrayed by Hannah New in *Maleficent* and Judith Maxie in *Descendants*. As for her animated counterpart, the mystery of her two recorded movie lines still remains, many speculate is Verna Felton. In *Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams*, she is voiced by Barbara Dirikson.

## Personal Information

* She had the Diamond Crown until she gave it to Aurora.
* She likes purple and pink.
* Likes: Her family, being with Aurora, her daughter's safety
* Dislikes: Aurora in danger, being separated from her daughter, Maleficent's curse, anyone causing trouble in her kingdom, threats to the kingdom
* Her hair is blonde, but has a brownish tone, unlike Aurora.

## Personality

Although her personality isn’t fully developed and didn’t have much of a proactive role, Queen Leah is shown to be a caring individual and a loving mother to her daughter, Aurora and her family, kingdom, and all of the palace servants. In *Descendants*, she showed a nasty side by harboring resentment towards Mal, blaming her for her mother's actions and being protective of Audrey. This is because of her trauma she went through from the original film; in the third Descendants she ultimately apologizes and gets better.

## Appearances

### ***Sleeping Beauty***

Queen Leah and her husband are the monarch and consort of an unnamed European kingdom (possibly in France during the late 1300’s). After many years of marriage, she gives birth to a beautiful baby daughter which she and her husband name Aurora, after the goddess of dawn. Her happiness is shortened when Maleficent, who was not invited, 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 for the return of her daughter. But when Aurora touches the spindle, the Queen, her husband, King Hubert, the servants, and the entire kingdom are put to sleep by the Good Fairies. After Maleficent's own death by Prince Phillip, he awakens Aurora from her sleeping curse. Thanks to Phillip, it allows the whole kingdom to wake up. Along with Stefan, Hubert, and the other palace servants and guests, she awakens and is finally reunited with her daughter, whom she embraces and cries tears of happiness when she sees her with Phillip.

### *Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams*

In the short segment, Queen Leah, King Stefan, King Hubert, and Prince Phillip all leave town to 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 and aided by their fussbudget majordomo, Lord Duke. When they come back to town from a royal ceremony, Duke warns them about the magic incident. So when they enter the throne room, no green pigs, giant chickens, and cows are shown, as a result of Aurora solving her problem. Leah is seen at the end of the segment when she attends a royal banquet that is hosted by Aurora, along with Duke, Stefan, Hubert, Phillip, Merryweather, Flora, and Fauna.

### Official Storybooks and Comics

In *A Message For Maleficent*, she is the princess of a neighboring allied kingdom of King Stefan's. She marries King Stefan after he chooses her, and she decides to invite everyone for the wedding. This is contradicted in *Aurora and the Diamond Crown*, where she is revealed to have been the heir princess. She received the Diamond Crown after successfully solving the three riddles on her 17th birthday, given to her by Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. She presents the story of the crown to Aurora and wishes her luck, later passing on the crown to her.

In *Aurora's Royal Wedding*, she encourages Aurora lovingly about being a princess, and also lands her daughter her wedding gown that she wore when she married King Stefan. In *The Wedding Gift*, she had a similar role, whisking Aurora away when she was overwhelmed. In the chapter book, *Aurora: The Perfect Party*, she arrives at the party and congratulates Aurora on her work, claiming the fairies deserve it. She gives Aurora her blessing in participating in the tournament in Phillip's place in *An Amazing Team*, telling her she's a new kind of princess. She also visits her daughter at the castle in *A Moment to Remember* and *Aurora and the Helpful Dragon*. In the mini comics segments, she participates with her family in having fun in the snow in *The First Snowfall*.

### *Villains* Series

She is mentioned in both *Poor Unfortunate Soul*, and *Mistress of All Evil*. It's revealed she has a sister, Queen Morningstar. She is visited by her in times of great sorrow, referring to the events of the original film. She loves Aurora very much, despite Aurora not being her biological daughter here. She also appears in a family tree illustration in *The Odd Sisters*.

### *A Twisted Tale*

She appears in Once Upon a Dream, being a victim of Maleficent's vengeful scheme. In Aurora's warped dream induced by Maleficent, in *Happily Ever After Redacted*, she and her husband are evil tyrants who destroyed the land, neglected their daughter and sold her to fairies after she was 16. Maleficent banished them to the dungeons. In *Status Quo*, she appears there, lifeless and no emotion. In *Bluebird of Happiness*, she pleads with Maleficent to leave her daughter alone, this being the real her. In *Void*, she was consumed by her, which also killed her in real life. A demonic version of her is created in *Another Denouement*, to distract Aurora. In *Happily Ever After*, Aurora who woke up forgave her parents. It's also implied she wanted a son instead.

### *Descendants*

Queen Leah appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movie played by Judith Maxie. By that time she is a grandmother to Audrey. She is shown to be apathetic toward the villains, but especially Mal in particular, because her mother caused Leah to miss out on her own daughter's entire childhood. After the incident at the coronation, she appears to have accepted Mal and the others; she observes as Audrey thanks Mal for stopping her mom.

In *Descendants 3*, Queen Leah attends an announcement made by Ben, and watches him ask Mal to be his queen. She chides Audrey for not being able to win Ben over, stating that Aurora managed to hold onto a prince in her sleep. After Audrey is defeated by Mal, Leah watches Hades awaken her from a deep sleep, and apologizes to Mal. She later claps as Mal declares that the Isle's barrier will be taken down.

She also is mentioned in books like *Audrey's Diary*, and *Descendants 3: The Villain Kids Guide For New VKs.*

### *Maleficent* film

Queen Leah appeared in the film under the name of **Leila** and was portrayed by Hannah New. She is the daughter of the ruthless King Henry. She remains loyal to her father who performs her duties as a princess by becoming Stefan's wife and later bearing his child. She would soon witness Maleficent, her husband's former friend whom he betrayed would place a curse on her daughter Aurora. During the course of the film, she becomes gravely ill and eventually dies. Stefan shows no grief over her death as he has become paranoid and obsessed with hunting Maleficent down.

In the former script, she kept her original name, stays alive and has a mother. She first met Maleficent during a ball when she was a princess. She fell in love with Stefan as did he. She also had other kids after Aurora, cried a lot when she was taken by the fairies or when she fell asleep. She and her mother also kept the last spinning wheel in the kingdom. She is also mentioned in Heart of the Moors novel, as Aurora is her and Stefan's daughter.

### *Once Upon a Time*

In the ABC fantasy drama series *Once Upon a Time*, she's called Briar Rose (as a reference to *Sleeping Beauty*). The original Sleeping Beauty, she had incurred Maleficent's wrath, and was cursed by her into an eternal sleep before King Stefan awakens her with true love's kiss. While Maleficent falls into ruin, destroyed by her failed revenge, King Stefan and Briar Rose marry and have a daughter named Aurora. Years later, when their daughter is set to wed Prince Phillip, King Stefan seeks to get rid of Maleficent permanently to keep Aurora safe from her. Instead, Maleficent regains her lost ability to morph into a dragon and gains the upper-hand over the king, but the latter managed to survive. Later, Maleficent gains retribution against Briar Rose by cursing Aurora into an eternal sleep.

### *Once Upon a Scream*

In this novel, she is already deceased as she lived in Europe in the Middle Ages, but she is mentioned or alluded to many times. Her role from the film didn't change. Instead, a major focus is a character named after her, who's the mayor of Castletown's daughter and Dawn's bully, who also is a sleeping victim of Maleficent's.

### *Sleeping Beauty* 1951

She appears in the early draft of the original film, Maleficent calling her "my good queen". She also chides her husband when he verbally attacked Maleficent as she crashed the christening.

* *Sleeping Beauty (1959)*
	+ *1951 Draft*
* *Sleeping Beauty (1970 Comic)*
* *The Friendship of Fairies*
* *Falling in Love*
* *A Message for Maleficent*
* *A Royal Plan*
* *Aurora's Royal Wedding*
* *The Wedding Gift*
* *A Moment to Remember*
* *An Amazing Team*
* *Aurora and the Helpful Dragon*
* *Aurora: The Perfect Party*
* *Aurora and the Diamond Crown*
* *First Snowfall*
* *Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams*
* *Descendants*
* *Descendants 3*
* *Maleficent (2014)*
	+ *Maleficent (2012 script)*
* *Villains Series*
	+ *Poor Unfortunate Soul (mentioned)*
	+ *Mistress of All Evil (mentioned)*
	+ *The Odd Sisters (portrait)*
* *Once Upon a Dream (A Twisted Tale)*
* *Once Upon a Time (mentioned, no appearance)*
* *Once Upon a Scream (mentioned)*

## Relationships

* With her *daughter Aurora*: motherly love. She loves her very much and gives her advice. She is clearly devastated when she goes.
* With her *husband Stefan*: love. She loves her husband, though in *Maleficent* she possibly died of heartbreak.
* With *King Hubert*: friendship.
* With *Lord Duke*: friendship. She giggled amused by his goofing around.
* With *Flora*: friendship. Like towards Fauna and Merryweather, grateful she saved her daughter.
* With *Fauna*: friendship.
* With *Merryweather*: friendship.
* With *Prince Phillip*: motherly relationship. She appreciates him and knows he's the right one for Aurora.
* With *Maleficent*: animosity. She clearly dislikes her in *Descendants* enough to lash out at her innocent daughter. Though in the original she is very cordial with her, and in *A Message for Maleficent* she didn't want to leave her out. In an original draft of *Maleficent*, she also tried to give her a chance.
* With *Princess Audrey*: Loves her and is overprotective of her, but is not afraid to put her down when she didn't live up to her line and pressured her to marry Ben.
* With *Queen Mal*: Former enemy. Initially dislikes her, but apologizes after Mal helped save Audrey.
* With *her mother*: Mother-daughter. She got the Diamond Crown from her. In *Maleficent* original draft, they hid together a spinning wheel from Stefan.
* With *her father Henry*: Loving. Even though Henry's a tyrant, she doesn't know of his plans.
* With *her sister*: Loving. Queen Morningstar comforted Leah in times of sorrow.

## Trivia

* In the French version, she is called **Reine Orhiane** or **Reine Oriane**, although some media called her **Reine Béatrice**.
* In real life, Leah's position as queen would not be secure after giving birth to Aurora; it was vustomary for most queens to give birth to at least two sons first.
* Aurora looks pretty much identical to Leah, with the only real differences being that Aurora has longer and lighter-colored hair and a slightly rounder face compared to Leah.
* Despite having less screen time and not having a proactive role, Queen Leah is the first mother of a Disney Princess to be alive in the film, though she and King Stefan both die in *Maleficent*. The second is Fa Li (Mulan's mother), the third is Eudora (Tiana's), the fourth is Queen Arianna (Rapunzel's) the fifth is Elinor (Merida's), and the sixth is Sina (Moana's).
* Though King Stefan and Queen Leah do not 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.
* Although it is often speculated by fans that the late Verna Felton, who voiced Flora in the same film, might have allegedly voiced Queen Leah, the truth may never be known because the studio still has no records of who had really voiced Leah. The same goes for the unnamed herald.
* ***Sleep:*** Put in *Sleeping Beauty*, by the fairies, awakened when her daughter wakes up. In *Once Upon a Time*, she is the original Sleeping Beauty.
* **Leah** is a name of Hebrew origins, meaning *weary, delicate*. **Leila** on the other hand is of Arabic origin and means *night, dusk*. **Orianne** is of french origin and means *sunrise, dawn*. **Beatrice** is of Latin origin meaning *one who brings joy*.