When Alice returns from Wonderland no one believes her as she tries share her marvelous tale of adventure. After convincing Alice that Wonderland was merely a part of her imagination she changed, she isn't the little curious girl anymore but rather a strict and critical woman. She did end up marrying a successful man but he passed away, not before they had a child. Her name is Anastasia and just like her mother, she finds herself falling down a particular rabbit hole.
Due to a misguided desire to win over his maybe-probably-maybe-not future mother-in-law and prove to her that her husband didn't leave her--at least, not of his own volition--Hatter spirits Carol away to Wonderland. AliceHatter