Queen Helen
Also known as Helen, Nellie
Frank’s wife, brought from London to become Narnia’s first queen. Together Frank and Helen begin the human royal line of the new country.
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In the chronicles
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The Magician's Nephew5 cited passages⌄
- Chapter XI · paragraph 71
"It'd be up to me to try, sir. I'd do my best: wouldn't we, Nellie?"
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 24
"If you please, sir," said Queen Helen (for that is what Nellie the cabman's wife now was), "I think the little girl would love to go too, if it weren…
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 4
… Aslan. "Let us now proceed to the Coronation of King Frank of Narnia and Helen his Queen."
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 5
…ing's train and four River-Nymphs the Queen's. Their heads were bare; but Helen had let her hair down and it made a great improvement in her appearance. But it was neither hair nor clothes th…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 32
…came to trouble that pleasant land for many hundred years. King Frank and Queen Helen and their children lived happily in Narnia and their second son became King of Archenland. The boys married nym…
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