Re: Young Eva

[Slurpeez]

@Andreth Stark wrote:

mmm…if Henry sr. and Eva were brother and sister, according to what I got from “The queen is dead” (“the tiara was of my mother and of her mother before her”, etc…) , the kingdom passes from mother to daughter (because if it were inherited in the masculine line, then the royal tiara wouldn’t belong to Eva’s family but to Leopold’s), so, despite Hery being a prince, he couldn’t become an actual king, but a noble bannerman, lord of his own lands, etc…

While Eva did get the tiara from her maternal line, that doesn’t mean she was the crown princess who would become the ruler of her father’s kingdom. (If she had a brother, it’d be his birthright to rule). It just means she was born a royal princess, as could both her mother and maternal grandmother have been. It’s very common for royals to marry other royals, so Eva’s mother was a probably a princesses by birth who then married a king, Eva’s father. Likewise, Princess Eva then became a queen consort (which is a queen not by birth but by marriage) when she married King Leopold, Snow’s father.

As an only child, however, Snow didn’t have to compete with a brother and so would become a queen regnant by birthright of inheriting King Leopold’s throne. By extension, Regina was a only queen consort when she married King Leopold. After she had her husband murdered, Regina had no real right to rule, because Snow White is the rightful queen regnant as Leopold’s daughter. Yet, I think Regina framed Snow for her father’s murder, because if you recall, there was a wanted poster for Snow for murder, treason, and treachery. So,the only reason Regina remained in power was due to her magic and by framing the rightful heir, Snow White, for the murder of her father.

Besides, if Henry sr. was Eva’s brother… how is it that he didn’t seem to remember Leopold in “The stable boy”? I mean, surely he would remember his sister’s husband. Even more, how is it that he agreed to marry his daughter to her uncle? how is it that Regina didn’t know her cousin? how is it that Eva didn’t visit her brother in all those years? sound strange to me…

Those are all really valid points which I’m struggling to answer. I will have to think about it. My initial reaction is that perhaps the Prince Henry who catches Cora’s eye is different from Henry Sr, whom we know she eventually did marry. That would be very confusing if Cora were romantically linked to two different men named Henry, but not impossible. Maybe after being jilted in love by Prince Henry, the son of Xavier, Cora had to settle for lesser nobility, whose name just so happened also to be Henry, which reminded Cora of her true love, Prince Henry. I know, confusing.