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Mr. Burns has a mother? She must be a hundred million years old!
―Homer Simpson[src]

Daphne Burns (née Charles) was the only child of Jean-Claude Charles and Ophelia Charles and Charles Montgomery Burns' mother. She was married to Clifford Burns, and once had an affair with President Taft. Her date of death is unclear, with her appearing to either have died in the 1930s while Mr. Burns was still at school,[1] or lived to 122 by the 1990s.[2]

Children[]

Daphne had many children, including Charles Montgomery Burns, George Burns, Zeph Burns, Cornelius BurnsCornelia Hernandez, Clifford Burns Jr., Dominique Burns, Archibald Burns, Ernest Burns, Sarah Drew Linscott and 10 other unnamed children.[3]

Baby Burns

Toddler Burns and his mother.

Personality[]

From what has been seen in the episode Homer the Smithers, Daphne has been shown to have a feisty and cantankerous disposition. As evidenced by the way she spoke in the same episode, her mannerisms are out-of-touch with modern times. instances include "Lack-wit" (Idiot), "Improvident" (thoughtless), "Atom Mill" (Nuclear Power Plant).

Biography[]

How long Daphne Burns lived and what her apparent cause of death was depended on the episode. In one episode, she was last seen alive by Mr. Burns in 1935 before he was sent to boarding school.[1] In another, she was still alive in the 1990s, having lived to at least 122 years old and only capable of dialing phone numbers and yelling, following a failed attempt by her son to kill her five decades prior to that as revenge for her extramarital affair with President William Howard Taft.[2] In another episode, during a medical check up Mr. Burns once listed the cause of his parents' deaths as "got in my way".[4] After buying out KBBL and firing Bill and Marty, Mr. Burns commented that the lack of indoor plumbing killed his mother.[5] Mr. Burns also once asked Smithers where his "stuffed mother" was, implying that his mother is deceased.[6] It is possible that, in these instances, he is actually referring to his grandmother Evelyn Graycomb, much like how he once referred to his grandfather Wainwright Montgomery Burns as his father[7].

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