The Queen is a character from the 1980 remake of Twelve Months. She wants to gain some Galanthus (also known as Snowdrop flowers) despite them being unavailable due to the season being winter. She voiced by Ai Kanzaki in the Japanese version and Paula Parker in the English dub.
About Queen[]
At the palace, the Queen tends to her royal duties. The Wiseman aids in providing her education and the prime minister urges her to assist him in making a decision. While the palace staff prepare for the New Year's Day festivities, the Wiseman says that it's time for her math lessons. In spite of putting in the incorrect answers for a few multiplication problems, she insists that they're all correct to the Wiseman. Not only that, but she also insists on creating silly laws and declarations, such as by her logic, it's still Christmastime despite the holiday having already passed. As she looks through a book of flowers, she comes across a bunch on one page that catch her eyes. The Queen asks the Wisweman just what kind of flowers they are and he tells her they're called Galanthus or Snowdrops. When she asks why there aren't any growing in the garden, he explains that they're spring wildflowers. She demands that the season is changed into spring, but the Wiseman says that's impossible due to that not being how nature works. After she rings a bell for her servants, the royal readers gives an announcement to a crowd that the Queen offers gold coins as the reward to anybody who can fetch her the wildflowers. Among the crowd are Anja's stepmother and stepsister, Lena, who hear about this. They show grand interest, take advantage of the opportunity, and have the idea of getting Anja to do that for them.
New Year's Day comes, but the Queen says the celebrations can't start just yet. She states that it's not New Year's Day at the palace until she gets her Snowdrop flowers and declares the number of days in December is 34. One of her guards enters a room where she and her other staff members are to let her know that two people have brought her the Snowdrops. The Queen rushes downstairs to meet them, which are Anja's stepmom and Lena. Since the Queen now has the spring wildflowers, she's ready to give her greeting of a "Happy New Year!". Mother and daughter are still waiting for the reward, as the Queen is reminded as she says she nearly forgot about that. But before she grant them that, she tells them she'd like to know just where they found the flowers and how they got them. Unexpectedly being asked about that, this prompts the two to fabricate a story about this achievement. Regardless of not having found the flowers themselves, the description of the place and the explanation they give seems feasible enough, at first. But when the Queen sees that it's not quite adding up, she gets suspicious. The mom and Lena then confess and admit that they're imposters and weren't the discoverers of the flowers. The Queen threatens to give them a sentence of crushing rocks for life on the royal roadway. They implore her to have mercy of them and reveal they know who it really was who found the flowers: Anja. The Queen shows interest in hearing more about this.
After Lena and her mom return home to tell Anja all about their trip at the palace, and needing another favor from her, Lena's mom heads back to the palace. The Queen wants to go out in search of the Galanthus to see just where they are for herself. The soldiers, the Wiseman, the Prime Minister, and Lena's mom accompany her. In the midst of their search for Anja and the flowers, the Queen says she's chilly and demands her coat. A soldier gives it to her and as he wipes sweat from his forehead, she asks why he does that. He apologizes, then she asks how he can be so warm while she's still so cold. He explains that it's due to his line of work. She asks why that's so special and as he stammers to answer, another soldier, Capt. Rustaff, tells her it has to do with all of that shoveling the other soldier's been doing, raising his body temperature as a result. She decides she wants to have a go at shoveling herself and demands the shovel be handed to her. She goes to work with it, perhaps a little too roughly, as Capt. Rustaff tells her. But she doesn't mind, as she enjoys it, considering it fun rather than work.
When the Queen and the others get to the area where the Snowdrops were found, she meets Anja at last. Since Anja is the real one responsible for finding the flowers, the Queen offers gold coins to her as her reward. But Anja says she doesn't want those. When the Queen asks Anja what she does want, she says all she wants is her stolen ring back. Following the Queen's demand to know where the ring is and threatening to sentence Lena and her mom again, Lena tells her she has it. Anja says to give it back to her, but the Queen wants to have a look at it. The Queen doesn't recognize having a ring like it. The Queen concurs with returning Anja her ring in exchange for telling her where and how she found the Snowdrops. Anja won't say a word about this, as her lips are sealed other than saying she can't say. The Queen threatens to sentence her to rock-crushing if she doesn't say, but Anja stays firm in not betraying the Twelve Months. Then, the Queen threatens to toss the ring away, but she feigns doing so initially, willing to give her a second chance. When Anja still won't say, telling the Queen to throw it instead, that's exactly what the Queen does, but as she does so, Anja goes to grab it and the Queen, asking where she's going, tries to grab her, and stop her. Anja leans and falls forward while saying the incantation once more. As it is recited, the seasons change from winter to spring to summer to fall to winter again. When spring comes, the Queen and the others witness the Galanthus blooming; when summer hits, the weather and climate becomes so hot, she and the others have to remove their coats, and she demands a glass of water; and when autumn arrives, one soldier brings her some water, but since it's no longer very hot, she's no longer thirsty and she runs into a soldier's arms when the autumnal wind blows too strongly. The Queen and the others are in disbelief at what they're seeing before their very eyes. After winter returns, the Queen demands her coat again, but one of the soldiers tells her it was blown away by the autumnal wind. Lena and her mother find one remaining coat on high tree branch. They both go to retrieve it and fight over it. The Queen comments on their behavior being disgraceful, then she and the others are shocked when mother and daughter turn into dogs as punishment.
Anja returns riding in a horse-drawn sleigh and now sporting a faux fur hat and coat. Capt. Rustaff requests that he and his group warm themselves by a fire, but the Queen tells him never to mind that, demanding that she get a sleigh ride too. When the two dogs run up to Anja, who is unaware that her stepmom and stepsister were turned into them, and she pets them, the Queen wonders just how she can be so kind to such wretched animals. Capt. Rustaff explains that Anja receives rewards in return for the kindness she gives to others. He tells the Queen that treating others like human beings and asking for favors is the proper way to go about it rather than demanding. Anja invites her to ride the sleigh along with her and the Queen is taken aback by the gesture, feeling guilty and bad for her behavior earlier, apologizing. Anja offers her her coat as well and the Queen is in astonishment that she would lend a helping hand, despite the way she acted. The Queen receives a coat of her own when it magically appears on her, as this is her reward for her change of attitude and the humility she learned for Anja. After asking one of the Twelve Months, January, if Lena and her mom will stay as dogs forever, he tells Anja they'll turn back to normal in three New Year's Eves as long as they learn to become more humble by then and to bring them back to the same spot where Anja got the flowers by that time. Anja and the Queen discover that they do have some things in common with each other, like both being orphans, more than they think. They become good, newfound friends and take their sleigh ride together.
Physical Appearance[]
The Queen is a svelte, teen girl. She has fair skin, blue eyes, and honey blonde hair worn in a hive with a bun behind her head. She wears a gold crown; a goldenrod, floor-length, pleated dress with a parchment yellow, off-the-shoulder neckline and long sleeves with upward curvy, marigold patterns surrounding the pleats and white buttons.
Personality[]
The Queen is demanding but silly with her decrees. Despite coming across as somewhat harsh with her threats of sentences and punishments, she can also be generous and fair, like when she gives out rewards and giving others a chance. Because she was brought up in the regal lifestyle, she is unsophisticated when it comes to the ways of the world, like what is proper. But she is open-minded and eager to learn, and try new things that are unfamiliar to her. Gradually, she learns to be better and more humble. Deep down, she does have some good-heartedness.