| “ | I said I wanted four-minute eggs, not four one-minute eggs, and where in GOD'S NAME is our bread?! | „ |
| ~ Marguerite's first spoken line as an adult. |
| “ | Danielle: These [slippers] are my mother's! Marguerite: Yes, and she's dead. |
„ |
| ~ Marguerite insulting Danielle's deceased mother. |
Marguerite Françoise Louise de Ghent is the secondary antagonist of the 1998 live-action film Ever After: A Cinderella Story.
She was portrayed by Megan Dodds as an adult and by Elizabeth Earl as a child.
Biography[]
Marguerite de Ghent is the daughter of Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent, the sister of Jacqueline de Ghent, and the stepsister of Danielle de Barbarac.
Ten years later, Baroness Rodmilla's older daughter has grown into a beautiful, stunning young woman. Unfortunately, she has also become cruel, arrogant, spoiled, and bad-tempered. Her mother schemes to match her with King Francis and Queen Marie's son, Crown Prince Henry, even as Henry is enthralled with the mysterious "Nicole." The Baroness then proposes that Marguerite should wear Danielle's mother's wedding dress and the matching glass slippers, which were stored away for Danielle's wedding.
On the day of the ball, the Baroness and Marguerite accuse Danielle of hiding the dress and slippers. After shouting that she would rather die than see Marguerite wear her mother's gown, Danielle is locked in the larder. Her childhood friend Gustave asks for help from Leonardo da Vinci, who frees her by unhinging the door.
He also encourages her to go to the ball and tell Henry the whole truth, saying that the Prince's love for her will be enough to overcome convention. The servants give Danielle her mother's dress and slippers, which they had hidden from Marguerite, and Leonardo gives her a pair of wings. Unfortunately, Rodmilla humiliates Danielle in front of everyone, causing Henry to reject her.
Later, Rodmilla, Marguerite, and Jacqueline are summoned to the King's royal court, thinking that Henry plans to propose to Marguerite. In truth, only Jacqueline knows the true purpose of their summoning. Upon their arrival, Rodmilla is asked by King Francis if she has lied to the Queen about Danielle, and Queen Marie tells her to choose her own words wisely, as they may be her last. Rodmilla admits that she stretched her details and got carried away with it, and this might have only gotten her off with a lighter punishment. However, Marguerite, realizing the trouble that they might be in, starts arguing with her mother and tries to throw all of the blame for their lies onto her, which angers Rodmilla to see her daughter turning on her so openly. King Francis breaks up the argument and asks Jacqueline if they are always like this at home, to which Jacqueline responds that they're actually worse. When Rodmilla asks if she had anything to do with this, Jacqueline sarcastically tells her mother that she just came for the food.
Queen Marie tells Rodmilla that she is stripped of her title, and she and Marguerite are sentenced to be shipped to the Americas on the first available boat, unless someone speaks on their behalf. As the other nobles present look coldly at Rodmilla (and one even shakes his head no, as though to tell her silently that he will not speak up for her), she states that there seems to be a few people out of tongue. Danielle appears, stating that she will speak for them, as Rodmilla is her stepmother, while Prince Henry asks Marguerite if she has met his new wife, which stuns and, ultimately, devastates her, knowing that her schemes to make her his wife have failed. As Rodmilla bows before her, Danielle quietly says to her, "I want you to know that I will forget you after this moment and never think of you again. But you, I am quite certain, will think about me every single day for the rest of your life." Danielle then tells King Francis and Queen Marie that all she asks is to give Rodmilla and Marguerite the same courtesy that the two of them had given her.
As a result of King Francis and Queen Marie taking Danielle's advice, Rodmilla and Marguerite are reduced to and work as laundry maids for the rest of their lives. Rodmilla and Marguerite then argue over their new positions as the laundry supervisor gets annoyed and knocks them into a vat of dye with a laundry sack. The other laundry maids briefly laugh with the supervisor until she tells the two of them to get to work. While Rodmilla simply fumes over their situation, Marguerite, for whom reality has now set in that this is her new life, breaks down crying in the vat. As for Jacqueline, she is spared punishment because she's always been kind to Danielle.
[]
 Villains
| ||
|
Movies Television Books | ||