@charming wrote:
2) George needed Rumple’s help because his minions could not legally get George’s wife pregnant and an heir to the throne. She was cursed to being barren. If an heir was not found or produced the kingdom will go to another royal family. His minions can’t be trusted to doing that word would go out that there was no heir. If you remember whenever he spoke to Rumple in detail in was just between the two of them and no one else; meaning no one “really knows” what the deal is but yet they do.
That means that he was not his wife’s true love. It makes me wonder who was. That said it would be interesting to see their dynamic in their relationship. If there was underlying animosity I wonder if George’s wife purposefully made herself barren as a way of keeping true to her one true love (not having another man’s child) or ensuring that George not have his ancestry passed on as he would have to adopt a child into the royal family. If there are brothers and sisters it would interesting to meet them or learn about their existence and life (if he had any… if he was an only child he would be in quite the predicament).