


Queen Grimhilde, usually known as the Evil Queen, the Wicked Queen or just the Queen, is the main antagonist in the 1937 animated Disney film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Queen Grimhilde in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Bimbo pulls on her tongue, turning her inside out defeating her. The Queen than turns into a monster as all of the heroes are brought back to there normal form but the Queen starts chasing them. She freezes all of the people and asks her mirror if she is the fairest, and the mirror says that she is. Bimbo and Koko follow into the cave as the evil Queen turns into a witch and follows them. Betty ends up getting stuck in a ice block, which is a ride away into the mystery cave. Koko and Bimbo are about to kill Betty, although they can not go through it and Betty runs away. The Queen decides to send her guards Bimbo and Koko to go behead Betty. The Queen in the Betty Boop short Snow White first tasks her mirror whos the fairest in the land, which her mirror tells her that Betty Boop is the fairest in the land. The Queen in the Betty Boop cartoon shorts. Moreover, mirrors from Lohr were so elaborately worked that they were accorded the reputation of “always speaking the truth” and so they became a favorite gift at European crown and aristocratic courts. The upper right corner of “The Talking Mirror” even contains a clear reference to self-love (“Amour Propre”). The mirror “talked” predominantly in aphorisms. It was a product of the famous Lohr Mirror Manufacture (Kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur). The mirror was likely a gift from Philipp Christoph to Claudia Elisabeth. The Queen's iconic mirror, referred to as “The Talking Mirror”, can still be viewed today at Spessart Museum in the Lohr Castle, where Maria Sophia was born. Claudia Elisabeth von Reichenstein, the stepmother, was domineering and greatly favored the children from her first marriage. After the death of Maria Sophia's birth mother in 1741, her father Philipp Christoph remarried.

German scholar Karlheinz Bartels suggests that the folktale "Snow White" is based upon Maria Sophia Margaretha Catherina von Erthal, who was born in Lohr am Main in 1725. This detail is not included in subsequent versions, since 1819. In the first edition of the Brothers Grimm story, the Queen is Snow White's biological mother, not stepmother. The Brothers Grimm collected the German fairy tale in their 1812 Kinder- und Hausmärchen ("Children's and Household Tales"). The tale varies widely from country to country, with the Queen using various tricks against Snow White (for example, in Italy it would be a toxic comb, a contaminated cake, or a suffocating braid, depending on a version) demanding various forms of proof from the huntsman (like a bottle of blood stoopered with Snow White's toe in Spain, or Snow White's intestines and blood-soaked shirt in Italy). In some Scottish versions of Snow White, a talking trout takes place of the Queen's mirror, who herself is again again Snow White’s biological mother rather than stepmother, the huntsman figure is Snow White's own father who is love with the Queen, and her fate is unresolved. The Queen's origins can be traced to the character of Silver-Tree, a jealous queen who threatens her daughter in the Celtic oral tale Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree. Snow White and the Prince reveal the Queen's true nature and invite her to their wedding where, as punishment, she is forced to put on red-hot iron shoes and "dance" until she is dead. One day, a handsome Prince buys the coffin and orders his men to carry it and along the way, they stumble over branches, which causes a piece of the poisoned apple to come out from Snow White's throat, reviving her. She dies soon afterwards and is buried in a glass coffin. When the comb fails to kill her, she visits again as a farmer's wife and gives Snow White a poisoned apple. When that fails, she returns as a different old woman and tricks Snow White into using a poisoned comb. The Queen intentionally laces the corset too tight in an attempt to asphyxiate the girl. She visits the dwarfs' house and sells Snow White laces for a corset. She uses witchcraft to take the disguise of an old peddler woman, because she intends to kill the girl herself. While questioning her magic mirror, the Queen discovers that Snow White has survived. The Queen then eats what she believes is Snow White's organs. However, the huntsman takes pity on Snow White and instead, brings the Queen the lungs and liver of a boar. She asks him to bring back the girl's lungs and liver as proof that she is dead. After deciding to rid of Snow White, the Queen orders her huntsman to take the princess into the forest and kill her.
