Regina: “Yes, it was about the same age you were when that Sleeping Beauty got the best of you, my dear Maleficent.”
So maybe the first Sleeping Beauty had a different name, or maybe she died giveing birth to this one and her father named the child after the mother. It’s not as common to name a daughter after her mother as it to is name a son after his father, but it does happen.
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