Hetty King

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Henrietta King
Biographical information
Born	1859
Also known as	Aunt Hetty Miss King H.E. La Roi (pseudonym)
Physical information
Gender	Female
Hair colour	Brown
Skin colour	Fair
Family information
Family members	Parents Heziah King (father) Mrs. King (mother) Siblings Alec King (brother) Roger King (brother) Ruth King (sister) Olivia King (sister) Aunts and uncles Arabella King (aunt) Nieces and nephews Felicity King (niece) Felix King (nephew) Andrew King (nephew) Sara Stanley (niece) Cecily King (niece) Daniel King (nephew) Montgomery Dale (nephew) Alicia Dale Jr. (adoptive niece) Unborn Pike baby (great-nibling) In-law family Janet King (sister-in-law) Mrs. King (sister-in-law) Blair Stanley (brother-in-law) Jasper Dale (brother-in-law) Gus Pike (nephew-in-law)
Family	King family
Affiliation
Education	Avonlea school Queen's Academy
Clubs and societies	Avonlea Sewing Circle
Religious views	Presbyterian
See also
Related pages	Gallery Notes
Portrayal in other universes	Sullivan Entertainment animated

Henrietta "Hetty" E. King is the eldest sister of Alec, Roger, Ruth and Olivia King, the guardian of Sara Stanley, a teacher of the Avonlea school, and a novelist under the pseudonym of H.E. La Roi.

Biography

Hetty is the King Family Matriarch.

Personality

Hetty is a witty, old-fashioned aunt to Felicity, Felix, Cecily, Daniel, Sara, and Andrew. As the oldest in the family, she thinks it is her job to be in charge of everybody after their parents pass away. Unfortunately, her authoritarian attitudes don't sit well with her family members.

Relationships

Simon Tremayne

Hetty King is a business partner with Simon Tremayne. Their relationship is strictly only for business- until Simon proposes. Hetty accepts, but the engagement is soon cancelled, because Hetty's love for Rose Cottage and Simon's love for the hotel wouldn't be overcome by love.

Behind the scenes

Portrayal

• Jackie Burroughs portrayed Hetty in Road to Avonlea (1990–1996) and Happy Christmas, Miss King (1998). Burroughs also played Amelia Evans in Anne of Green Gables (1985).
• Megan Kitchen portrayed young Hetty in flashback scenes in Road to Avonlea.
• Mairon Bennett provided the voice of young Hetty in Road to Avonlea. Bennett also portrayed Colleen Pritchard in another episode of the series. Mairon is the older sister of Zachary Bennett (Felix King) and starred as Jane Stuart in Lantern Hill (1990), based on Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery.
• Joan Heney played older Hetty in Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008).

Trivia

• The current version of the official Road to Avonlea website describes her as the middle-aged, traditional and very serious school teacher of Avonlea and also the head of the King Family. She resides at Rose Cottage with her sister, Olivia, and her niece, Sara. Hetty is an important influence in Sara’s life as a strong role model and a mother figure.
• The 2012 version of the website described her as the eldest child of Heziah King, and older sister to Alec King, Roger, Ruth and Olivia King-Dale. Hetty is the strict and traditional school teacher at the Avonlea schoolhouse. Her dated and conservative beliefs often clash with the rest of the King family. However, this was not always the case. As a child, Hetty was free-spirited and carefree: she was even tardy to school on occasion.
  
  After the death of her mother, Hetty had to grow up fast. She was now the matriarch of the King family, and she needed to care for her younger siblings. Her first romantic interest was with Romney Penhallow. Hetty was in the seventh grade, and Romney had invited Rachel Lynde to the 1868 Christmas party to make Hetty jealous. His idea did not work out as planned and Hetty vowed to never talk to either one of them ever again: A grudge she held for 38 years.
  
  Hetty decided to devote her life to teaching, and she decided to attend Queen's College to follow her passion. Her rival, Muriel Stacey won the coveted ‘Gold Graduation Medal’ and become the Avonlea School teacher. Eventually, Muriel left Avonlea, and Hetty took her place as the Avonlea School teacher.
• Hetty is not based on any parallel character from Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Story Girl and The Golden Road. In the books, Sara Stanley and Olivia King lived with Olivia's brother Roger, who in the show is Andrew King's father and appears in only one episode.

Gallery

Anne of Green Gables Wiki has 110 images of Hetty King (view category).

Appearances

Season 1 (Road to Avonlea)

• "The Journey Begins"
• "The Story Girl Earns Her Name"
• "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's" (mentioned only)
• "The Materializing of Duncan"
• "Old Lady Lloyd"
• "Proof of the Pudding"
• "Conversions"
• "Malcolm and the Baby"
• "The Witch of Avonlea"
• "Felicity's Challenge"
• "The Hope Chest of Arabella King"
• "Nothing Endures But Change"

Season 2 (Road to Avonlea)

• "Sara's Homecoming"
• "How Kissing Was Discovered"
• "Aunt Hetty's Ordeal"
• "Of Corsets and Secrets and True, True Love"
• "Old Quarrels, Old Love"
• "May the Best Man Win"
• "Family Rivalry"
• "Sea Ghost"
• "All That Glitters"
• "Dreamer of Dreams"
• "It's Just a Stage"
• "A Mother's Love"
• "Misfits and Miracles"

Season 3 (Road to Avonlea)

• "The Ties That Bind"
• "Felix and Blackie"
• "Another Point of View"
• "But When She Was Bad... She Was Horrid: Part 1"
• "But When She Was Bad... She Was Horrid: Part 2"
• "Aunt Janet Rebels"
• "A Dark and Stormy Night"
• "Friends and Relations"
• "Vows of Silence"
• "After the Honeymoon"
• "High Society"
• "The Calamitous Courting of Hetty King"
• "Old Friends, Old Wounds"

Season 4 (Road to Avonlea)

• "Tug of War"
• "The Lady and the Blade"
• "Boys Will Be Boys"
• "Moving On"
• "Evelyn"
• "The Dinner"
• "Heirs and Graces"
• "Hearts and Flowers"
• "Felicity's Perfect Beau"
• "The Disappearance"
• "Home Movie"
• "Hearth and Home"

Season 5 (Road to Avonlea)

• "Memento Mori"
• "Modern Times"
• "A Friend in Need"
• "Strictly Melodrama"
• "Stranger in the Night"
• "Someone to Believe In"
• "Thursday's Child"
• "Best Laid Plans"
• "Otherwise Engaged"
• "Enter Prince Charming"
• "The Minister's Wife"

Season 6 (Road to Avonlea)

• "The Return of Gus Pike"
• "Lonely Hearts"
• "Fools and Kings"
• "Comings and Goings"
• "The Trouble with Davey"
• "Great Expectations"
• "The More Things Change"
• "Home is Where the Heart Is"
• "What a Tangled Web We Weave"
• "Homecoming"

Season 7 (Road to Avonlea)

TBA

Films

• Happy Christmas, Miss King (1998)
• Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)