Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-7302713-20130320115652

When Eva is telling Snow about the importance of the crown, she says that it was her mother's, making it sound like the royal line passed through her, and not Leopold. Which would make her the regnant and Leopold the consort.

Which means that when she dies, Snow is the next in line to rule. And Leopold rules as King Regnant because Snow is too young to? Rules through the right of his wife and daughter, through their blood?

Obviously, this is fairy tale land and there are a LOT of kingdoms and deposing rulers and changing family lines seems more than a bit easier in FTL than here.

I can also see tham both being regnants (a merger marriage), or there just being such an abundance of princesses that kings and prices really only marry those who are already royal. But it sounds (at least to me) as though Eva is talking about a crown that all these other rulers have worn, which to me signifies a little more than just that her blood line is royal. I get the sense that her mother was queen before her and that mother's mother (or father) ruled before that and so on.

I suppose it's also possible that the writers didn't pay too closely to this. Not every area of the show is super detail orientated, but, idk, this seems like a not-insigificant hole. 