The Red Queen is not the only queen in Wonderland, she has an older sister who is known as the White Queen, portrayed by actress Anne Hathaway. The original character in Lewis Carroll's book, Through the Looking Glass, doesn't have a strong prescene and is described as being a bit odd since she seems to live her life backwards.
Tim Burton's inspiration for the character was from Nigella Lawson, a UK cooking show host. Tim Burton talks about his excitement, "she really beautiful and she does all this cooking, but then there's this glint in her eye and when you see it you go, Oh, whoa. she's like really...nuts. I mean in a good way. Well, maybe. I don't know."
The White Queen also is similar to another iconic character, Glinda the Good Witch from The Wizard of Oz. Hathaway plays the character with a sense of bubbly fondness however there is some evidence that the White Queen might also suffer from the same evil that plagues her older sister the Red Queen. But instead of giving into the darker side of her human nature, the White Queen surrounds herself in a world where kindness and light prevails.
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