Helen Kingsleigh

## Physical description

* Allies
* Enemies

Lord Ascot, Mr. Harcourt, Charles Kingsleigh

Lady Ascot, Hamish Ascot

**Helen Kingsleigh** is a minor character in the 2010 adaptation of *Alice in Wonderland*. She is Margaret and Alice's mother and Charles's widow.

## Powers and abilities

* Skilled Businesswoman: After rejecting Hamish Ascot's proposal and contract, Helen started a new trading company with her daughter

## Relationships

### Alice Kingsleigh

Alice is Helen's youngest daughter who has a somewhat strained relationship with her mother at the beginning of the film. The death of Alice's father, Charles, idistanced them but despite this, Alice and Helen love each other very much. During their carriage ride to the Ascots' Helen and Alice have a brief argument until she apologizes for upsetting her mother due to her restless sleep last night. In the film, Helen, like Margaret, hopes that her daughter can secure herself a better future even if it means marrying somebody she doesn't love, showing that despite their differences, Helen wants her daughter to have a better life for herself. However at the end of the film, Alice returns to the real world a different woman who has finally grown up. She tells her mother not to worry for her and that she will find her own way; at the end of the film, Helen and Margaret Rush wish Alice off as she heads to China.

In the sequel's epilogue, Helen realizes Alice has turned into a confident young woman when she inspired her mother not to go through with giving the deed of the *Wonder* to the Ascots. When Hamish shows his true colors by insulting Alice, Helen reveals that she is glad that Alice never married Hamish because he is a horrible person. The mother and daughter may lose their house but they have the ship, Wonder to help them. Helen and Alice become close again and decide to start their own trading company, likely to rival the Ascots and put them out of business for to Hamish's wife leaving him.

### Charles Kingsleigh

For years, Charles and Helen were happily married with each other and had two daughters, Alice and Margaret. Unfortunately during the 13-year gap in between the film's prologue and main film storyline, Charles passed, leaving Helen a widow and being forced to raise her children alone.

Even years after his passing, Helen still misses her husband, as she express sadness whenever somebody mentions his name. During her daughter's and Hamish's dance at the Ascots' party, Helen silently wishes Charles were here. Lord Ascot offers his condolences to the saddened widow, who wishes Charles was there because he would know what to say to Alice.

In the film's sequel, Helen sells their house to the Ascots. However, she also decides to start a new trading company with Alice and rival Hamish's business.

### Margaret Manchester

Margaret is Helen's older daughter but it is unknown what their relationship is like.

### Lowell Manchester

Lowell is the husband of Helen's daughter Margaret and therefore Her son-in-law. She is unaware that son-in-law is cheating on her daughter with his mistress, Hattie, as only Alice is apparently aware of this.

### Hamish Ascot

Helen initially wanted her daughter to marry Hamish Ascot, the son of Her husband's old business partner.

In the sequel, however, Helen is forced to sell her husband's company to the Ascots after the family goes through financial struggles and on the verge of selling her ship, the Wonder. However, at the end of the film, rather than selling the company, Helen is convinced otherwise by her daughter. She realizes that Hamish is a horrible person and is glad her daughter refused his proposal. Helen seats to rip up the contract and leaves the house with her daughter while humiliating Hamish in front of everyone, causing his wife and servants to walk away as well. The two Kingsleigh women decide to start their own traveling company in order to rival the Ascots.