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Utter solitude wrote: Rumple told them, in the pilot. As far as we every saw, people in the Royal Castle knew.

However, that doesn't mean everybody in the whole world knew, or knew exactly what it meant or what to do about it. Well I think Snow White and her kingdom would have the decency to tell the other kingdoms about their impending doom.