The Ice Governess is a villain that appears in Doctor Who as one of the antagonists that appears in the Christmas special "The Snowmen". She was the reincarnation of Francesca and Digby Latimer's late governess who had died a year earlier, drowning in the frozen pond. The Ice Governess was animated on Christmas Eve 1892 by telepathic "snow" that embodied Francesca's fears and nightmares about her late governess coming back to life to get her. The Great Intelligence wanted to use the Ice Governess as a template to produce an army to obliterate humanity and take over the Earth.