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Queen Belle is one of the supporting characters in the Descendants franchise, as well as the protagonist of Disney's 1991 feature animated film Beauty and the Beast. She is also the co-founder and former queen of the kingdom of Auradon. She's the wife of Beast, the mother of Ben, and the mother-in-law of Mal. Belle is also.

Personality

Queen Belle is kind-hearted, loving, and beloved by all her royal subjects. She is shown to care deeply about her family and those around her. She also has a deep love for reading, a passion she shares with her son. Belle serves as a contrast to her husband, she is level-headed and calm, he is hot-headed and occasionally temperamental. Regardless of their differing personalities, Belle is very much in love with her husband of twenty years. She possesses a distaste for those who are self-absorbed, as evidenced when she mentions her relief when Ben declares his break-up with the vain Audrey. Initially suspicious of her son's proclamation to allow the children of four villains to attend Auradon Prep, Queen Belle was willing to give the second-generation villains a chance, just as she had done with her beloved husband when he was under his beastly curse.

Appearance

Just as beautiful as the day she set foot in Beast's castle, Queen Belle has aged gracefully. Her chestnut curls, atop which usually sits a diamond-studded tiara, are styled in a fashionable bob. Her warm brown eyes are accompanied by laugh lines, testifying of her kindness, and good nature. Her petite frame is usually sporting a regal gown in her signature yellow color.

History

Before the formation of Auradon

Further information: Beauty and the Beast
Belle in Beauty and the Beast

Belle as she appears originally in Beauty and the Beast.

Belle lived with her father Maurice in a small town, where all the inhabitants saw her as a strange girl, while Gaston, the man adored by the entire town, was determined to marry her because he considered her the most beautiful in the village. After her father left, and her horse Philipe returned without him, Belle went in search of him, finding him locked in the dungeons of a castle, where a beast was holding him captive. Belle offered to take her father's place in exchange for her release.

Although at first she hated Beast, over time she began to form a friendship with him, as well as with the rest of the castle's servants. Although she began to feel happy living there, she missed her father, and after discovering thanks to Beast's magic mirror that he was lost in the forest and sick, Beast allowed her to leave to be with him.

After returning home to take care of her father, when the villagers tried to lock Maurice up for considering him crazy after he told them about the Beast, Belle showed them that he was not crazy by showing them the Beast thanks to the magic mirror that he gave her. The villagers, considering him a dangerous monster, went to attack the castle led by Gaston, who locked Belle and Maurice in the basement of their house. Thanks to Belle's friend, Chip, they managed to escape and go to the castle, where after witnessing a fight between Beast and Gaston, the latter treacherously attacked Beast. Belle, saddened and seeing Beast lose consciousness, told him that she loved him. This broke Beast's spell, who became human again, and together they began a new life.

Descendants

Belle appears in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Descendants, where she serves as the mother of the major character, Ben, and the ruler of an idyllic kingdom in the present day, inhabited by various iconic Disney characters and their children. She and the Human Beast serve as the parents of the major character, Ben. Sometime after breaking the curse on her Prince, she and the Beast became the King and Queen of the idyllic kingdom of The United States of Auradon, one large kingdom uniting all of the famous kingdoms, set in the present day, and inhabited by various iconic Disney characters and their children. When Ben, who is soon to be King, states he wants to grant the children of the Isle of the Lost a second chance as his first proclamation, she is understandably worried, but she remains supportive of her son's endeavors and pushes her husband to do so as well.

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She makes an appearance at the Cotillion, along with Beast.

Trivia

  • Belle's portrayer also plays as the Blue Fairy on ABC's Once Upon a Time.
  • Keegan Connor Tracy initially auditioned for the role of Maleficent in Descendants.
  • She didn't like Ben's old girlfriend Audrey, due to her self-absorbed nature.
  • She was 44 in Descendants since she says to King Beast that he married her at the age of 28 and she is five years younger.
    • We can work this out from the fact that Belle is 17 in the Beauty and the Beast; the Beast's rose is said to bloom until his "twenty-first year", meaning he is four years her senior as the rose loses its last petal in the film, meaning he is 21. Then, seven years later, he married her at 28 while she was 24 so he is no younger than 48 as of Descendants. Belle, four years younger, would be 44 at the time.
    • She made a cameo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
  • She was voiced by Paige O' Hara in her debut, Beauty and The Beast.
  • Emma Watson portrayed her in the live-action remake.

References

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Characters
Descendants: MalJayEvieCarlos De VilBenAudreyLonnieJaneChad CharmingDoug
Disney Characters: BelleBeastFairy GodmotherSnow WhiteQueen LeahMaleficentJafarEvil QueenCruella De Vil
Original Characters: Coach JenkinsMr. DeleyDude the Dog
Deleted Characters: Aziz
Music
Soundtrack
Songs: Rotten to the CoreEvil Like MeDid I MentionIf OnlyBe Our GuestIf Only (Reprise)Set It OffBelieve
Locations
AuradonIsle of the LostAuradon Prep
Objects
Mal's Spell BookMagic MirrorMagic Wand
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Characters
Descendants: MalJayEvieCarlos De VilBenLonnieJaneChad CharmingDougUmaHarry HookGilDizzy Tremaine
Disney Characters: BelleBeastFairy GodmotherLumiereMaleficentLady TremaineUrsula
Original Characters: Dude the Dog
Music
Soundtrack
Songs: Ways To Be WickedWhat's My NameChillin' Like a VillainSpace BetweenIt's Goin' DownYou and MeKiss the GirlPoor Unfortunate Souls
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Characters
Descendants: MalJayEvieCarlos De VilBenAudreyUmaHarry HookGilChad CharmingDougJaneCelia FacilierDizzy TremaineSqueaky SmeeSquirmy Smee
Disney Characters: BelleBeastFairy GodmotherHadesDr. FacilierQueen LeahLady TremaineMr. Smee
Original Characters: Dude the Dog
Music
Soundtrack
Songs: Good to Be BadQueen of MeanDo What You Gotta DoNight FallsOne KissMy Once Upon a TimeBreak This DownDig a Little DeeperDid I Mention (Reprise)Happy BirthdayVK Mashup
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