Interesting sidenote, but Ella isn’t a royal, so why did her FGM who was patron to King George, also want to help Ella? I didn’t quite get how FGM’s are assigned and what it means if they are patrons to various royal families.
I could see BF, knowing limited resources of magic, conserving her FGM’s to “important” people who will be rulers or might marry into rulers, or something like that.
Who knows how many FGMs there are. I’ve been thinking of them as an elite, exclusive club that a fairy can be elevated to, so there aren’t so many of them around that every family in FTL is assigned their own, exclusive FGM.
What if in the FTL flashback Regina goes to Tinker Bell, her fairy-godmother, after her marriage to King Leopold because she wishes to get pregnant with a child of her own, hoping it will fill her life with love? However, maybe Regina is infertile, and so Tink promises to one day bless her with an adopted child. That would help to explain why Regina is smiling from ear to ear and walking arm in arm with Tinker Bell like they’re best friends.
Flash-forward to 2001 when Henry was born and Tink, working for the PP in our world, helps arrange for baby Henry to be brought from Phoenix to Storybrooke. In that way, Tinker Bell is looking out for Regina by eventually granting her wish of adopting a child.
That’s an interesting idea. They wouldn’t even have to bring infertility or adoption into it, specifically. Regina could just be lamenting how she’ll never have a child of her own, because she’s trapped in a loveless marriage, and Tink can tell her that one day, she will be blessed with a child.