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She may have loved Leopold all the same as what she told Johnathan. Besides, don't all fairy tale princesses dream about meeting a handsome prince? Wouldn't be too much of a fairy-tale if Snow White had married Grumpy, so you can't really blame Cora for wanting to marry above her station.

But I think it's how Eva did it rather than what she did. She told Leopold about Cora not so much because she wanted Leopold to know the truth but because she wanted Leopold for herself; and she did it by spreading rumours throughout the kingdom so that Cora's reputation would be tarnished. The right thing to do, and probably what Snow would have done, would be to give Cora a chance to own up and only tell Leopold if she did not.