The White Queen is a fictional character who appears in Lewis
Carroll's 1871 fantasy novel Through the Looking-Glass.Along with her
husband the White King, she is one of the first characters to be seen
in the story. She first appears in the drawing room just beyond the
titular looking-glass as an animate chesspiece unable to see or hear
Alice, the main character. The Queen is looking for her daughter Lily;
Alice helps her by lifting the White Queen and King onto the table,
leading them to believe they were thrown up by an invisible
volcano.Along with her husband the White King, she is one of the first
characters to be seen in the story. She first appears in the drawing
room just beyond the titular looking-glass as an animate chesspiece
unable to see or hear Alice, the main character. The Queen is looking
for her daughter Lily; Alice helps her by lifting the White Queen and
King onto the table, leading them to believe they were thrown up by an
invisible volcano.When Alice meets the Red Queen and joins the chess
game, she takes the place of a white pawn, Lily being too young to
play. She does not meet the White Queen as a human-sized character
until the Fifth Square. The White Queen lives backwards in time, due
to the fact that she lives through the eponymous looking glass. Her
behaviour is odd to Alice. She offers Alice "jam to-morrow and jam
yesterday - but never jam to-day." She screams in pain until, rather
than because, she pricks her thumb on her brooch, and tells Alice of
the King's messenger who has been imprisoned for a crime he will later
be tried for and perhaps (but not definitely) commit in the end. The
White Queen, aside from telling Alice things that she finds difficult
to believe (one being that she is just over 101 years old) says that
in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before
breakfast" and counsels Alice to practice the same skill. The meeting
ends with the Queen seeming to turn into a bespectacled sheep who sits
at a counter in a shop as Alice passes into the next square on the
board. The Sheep is somewhat different from the Queen in terms of
personality and gets "more like a porcupine every time [Alice] looks
at her" because she knits with several knitting needles all at once.
Two of these needles turn into oars when Alice appears in a boat, and
then reappear in the Sheep's shop, where Alice purchases an egg, which
becomes Humpty Dumpty as she moves to the next square.In Chapter 9,
the White Queen appears with the Red Queen, posing a series of typical
Wonderland/Looking-Glass questions ("Divide a loaf by a knife: what's
the answer to that?"), and then celebrating Alice's promotion from
pawn to queen. When that celebration goes awry, the White Queen seems
to flee the scene by disappearing into a tureen of soup. Martin
Gardner's The Annotated Alice points out that the White King is at the
time in check from the Red Queen. Alice proceeds to "capture" the Red
Queen and checkmate the Red King, ending the game. The White Queen is
not seen again, except as one of Alice's white cats, who Alice
speculates may have influenced the dream. White Queen (Through the Looking-Glass) Top Movies & Young Movies