The Evil Queen (Tales of the Order of Grimm)

Queen Grimhilde (commonly called the Evil Queen, the Old Queen, or simply the Queen) is a character from the well-known fairy tale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. She is Snow White's stepmother, Christian White's step-grandmother, and the main villain in The Wishing Spell.

Though her history is in accordance with the classic fairytale of Snow White, she is also given a backstory to explain why she is so "evil". Before the people in the Northern Woodlands started calling her the Evil Queen, her name was Grimhilde.

Story
Grimhilde was raised by the villagers of a town in the Northern Woodlands. It seems that her father, a maker of mirrors, never told her she was beautiful, leading to insecurity about her appearance. When her father dies, she marries the King whom she met at the well by her father's house. She grows to love Snow White as if she were her own daughter. But when the King's three witch-like cousins come for a visit they give her the Magic Mirror in which resides the spirit of her dead father, and slowly corrupted her. The King died in a war against another kingdom.

After her husband's death, the Queen slowly descends into madness, giving her rule over his kingdom before he died. She became a tyrant, she used her magic to stay young and beautiful forever. When her husband died, she then became evil and later became jealous of Snow White (for her beauty). Yet with his soul in the mirror with his memories fading, her father began mistaking Snow White for Grimhilde, Grimhilde, jealous and heartbroken, tried to kill Snow White.

After Snow White was saved and became queen, Snow White obtains the mirror and the Queen becomes the spirit inside the mirror after her death in the film. the people called for the death of the 'Evil Queen' by smashing the mirror, but Snow White had her mirror prison locked in the dungeons instead. In the beginning of the first book, Snow White and her son Christian White visits the dungeon to ask for her motives.