Queen Leah

**Queen Leah** is a minor character from Disney`s animated feature film, Sleeping Beauty.

## Queen Leah

### Films

Sleeping Beauty
 Descendants
 Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams

### Voice

Barbara Dirikson (Disney Princess Enchanted Tales)

### Occupation

Former queen of Aurora`s original kingdom
 Audrey`s grandmother

### Appearance

slender, fair skin, pink lips, dark blonde hair, brown eyes, dark pink-and-lavender dress, gold crown, aqua veil, dark magenta cape

### Family

King Stefan (husband)
 Queen Aurora (daughter)
 King Philip (son-in-law)
 Princess Audrey (granddaughter)

### Allies

King Stefan, King Philip, Samson, Queen Aurora, Princess Audrey, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather

### Fate

Reunites with her daughter Andy watches happily as Aurora and Philip dance

### Quote

"And you're not offended, your excellency?"
 "Oh, no!"

She is the wife of King Stefan and the mother of Queen Aurora. She speaks a couple of lines in the original film, but there have been no preserved records on who had provided her voice.

## Background

### Personality

Queen Leah is shown to be a caring individual and a loving mother to her daughter, Aurora. She is shown to love her family.

In *Descendants,* she is initially friendly towards Mal until her granddaughter informs her of Mal being the daughter of Maleficent, causing Leah to (unfairly) unload her loathing of Maleficent for causing her to miss out on her daughter`s entire childhood (and unknowingly helps Mal realize the pain of others), which spurs Mal angrily back to her mission of gaining the Fairy Godmother`s Wand.

## Appearances

### *Sleeping Beauty*

Queen Leah and her husband are the monarchs of an unnamed kingdom, in medieval France. After many years of marriage, she gives birth to a beautiful baby daughter which she and her husband name Aurora. Her happiness is shortened when Maleficent, who was not invited to her daughter`s christening, curses her baby. Devastated, she has to watch the fairies take her daughter away to protect her. Sixteen years later she is awaiting the return of her daughter, but when Aurora touches the spindle, the Queen and the entire kingdom are put to sleep by the good fairies. When Maleficent is defeated, she awakens, and finally meets her daughter, whom she embraces with tears of joy.

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

In the short segment, Stefan, Leah, Hubert, and Philip 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.

### *Descendants*

Queen Leah appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movie portrayed by Judith Maxie. By that time she is grandmother to Audrey. She is shown to be non-sympathetic to the villain kids, especially Mal, because her mom 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.

## Trivia

* In the French version, she is called **Reine Orhiane** or **Reine Oriane**, though some other media call her **Reine Bèatrice**.
* Leah is the first of the mothers of the Disney princesses to be alive in the film. The second is Fa Li (Mulan`s), the third is Eudora (Tiana`s), and the fourth is Queen Arianna (Rapunzel`s).
* Aurora strongly resembles her looks and hair color, though her daughter seems to have longer hair, lighter hair color, and a slightly rounder face.