Thread:Utter solitude/@comment-50.89.65.148-20130317134650

In most kingdoms (of our world) a woman who is Queen because she married the King does not inherit her husband's throne when he dies. The throne passes to the king's children or other descendants in the royal lineage. If those rules had applied, then Snow White should have been Queen when her father died - and Regina would have become a Queen Dowager.

Of course, the rules in the Enchanted Forest's kingdoms could be completely different, or Regina might have found some way to stay on the throne. 