Ursula VanPelt

. Emily Archer

. Samantha Lauren

. Chance Archer

. Secret Ryland

. Mystery Ryland

. Harley Archer

. Luna Lauren

. Zoe Archer

. Quinn Archer

. Scarlett Ryland

. Keegan Archer

. Davian Archer

. Kenley Archer

. Jeremy Archer

. Precious Archer

. Sky Archer

, Nolan Archer

Books 6 - 9- regular recurring

Books 10 + - semi recurring

**“People make mistakes. Things go wrong and accidents happen. That’s life, so get over it and move on.” - Ursula**

**Name:** Ursula was born as Ursula Alonso but when she married she took her husband’s surname making her Ursula VanPelt, and though she’s been divorced for several years her surname has not changed back.

The name Ursula is commonly associated with the children’s movie titled “the little mermaid.” However, this is not where Ursula got her name seeing as she was already twenty-three when the movie first came out in late 1989. It is not known where or why she got her name.

**Magic information:** Ursula comes from a magical family but doesn’t possess any magic of her own, meaning Ursula is a Powerless-Witch. This was confirmed on her thirteenth birthday. Ursula didn’t show any bad feelings towards her magical status and never talked about wanting magic. In-fact, when Ursula was given magic by Emma to fight in a war, she was given the chance to keep the magic but chose against it.

Due to being a Powerless-Witch and being raised in the seventies, Ursula was forced to go through her guardian training sometime before age 40, as that was the rule back then. Though it wasn’t confirmed she did go through her training, we know she must have. Otherwise, she’d have no contact with the magical world anymore as punishment.

Romantic relationships

In her early adult life Ursula married a mortal named Alexander VanPelt and with him had two daughters. Ursula wasn’t allowed to expose the magical world to Alex and therefore he was oblivious to its existence. Due to this, Ursula never told her daughters they were witches and made her niece and sister-in-law hide their magic from Alex. Ursula truly believed any children she and Alex had together would have no chance of having magic, but she was wrong. When her oldest daughter came into her magic during a tantrum, the results terrified Alex who fled from the house and abandoned his family. Thankfully, by the early 2000’s rules changed permitting mortal spouses to know about magic once married, though it was too late for Ursula, and Alex probably wouldn’t have reacted any better.

Maddie and Sophie had only been four and three years old when Alex fled, this left Ursula to raise both girls completely on her own. Ursula believed it was her fault the girls' no longer had their father around and dealt with that guilt by spoiling her daughters senseless. This led to her losing control over Maddie. Ursula refused to accept that she had no control over her oldest daughter and still attempted to discipline her. This only caused fights between them, and in the end, Maddie always won.

Ursula wasn't the best mother to Sophie either. Being abandoned by her father had traumatized Sophie and caused her to live in and out of an alternative reality in her mind where everything was perfect. Ursula wasn't concerned even as Sophie grew older. She refused to believe something wasn't right with her daughter and ruled it off as Sophie having an overactive imagination.

Behind her becoming a grandmother

While driving her daughters home from their first day of tenth and ninth grade, she was told by them that they were both pregnant. At the time Maddie was fifteen and Sophie only fourteen. Ursula was shocked and furious. She yelled and scolded them. She also blamed herself believing she should have seen it coming and therefore should have done something to prevent it from happening. It took her a few months to fully accept that her daughters were pregnant at such young ages. She hated hearing them talk happily about being pregnant as though it was something to be proud of. She also tried to force both of them to break up with their boyfriends before they could break up with them. When she came around, she was very supportive. She accepted Maddie's choice to keep her baby and accepted Sophie's choice to give the baby up for adoption. Ursula knew Sophie wouldn't be capable of raising a baby in her mental state but believed Maddie just might make a good mom. Ursula was at the hospital for the births of both her grandchildren. She saw Sophie give birth and comforted her when the adoptive parents came. She didn't witness Emily's birth but went to see her shortly after.

It isn't known what Ursula thought when Maddie and Diego decided to adopt a child in 2011, and it isn't known how she reacted when Melanie went missing before the adoption was completed. Though when Maddie introduced the idea of adding a third child to the family, Ursula made it clear she was against this because she strongly believed Maddie had no business raising another child with how her two teen daughters had turned out.When Melanie was found in early 2017, Ursula greeted her with open arms and told her she had been looking forward to finally having her in the family. Melanie was the only one of her grandchildren who didn't get pregnant before the age of eighteen, though she did marry her cousin and had two daughters with him later in her life.

**FUN FACTS**

. Ursula’s name means “little bear.”

. Ursula isn’t a common name among English-speaking people.

. Ursula hooked up with her ex-husband more than twenty years after their divorce.

. Ursula is related to two chosen-ones.