Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5679696-20130311021240/@comment-58.185.114.117-20130313033405

I am pretty sure Eva did something either intentionally (she was quite the bitch back then) or otherwise that resulted in Cora losing her chance at being queen. This can be implied from the scene where Cora looks over Eva's dead body and says something along the line that she (Eva) took everything away from her.

The part about Regina being next to be Queen in the final scenes can be explained by the fact that some amount of time must have passed between the time when Cora married Henry (when she was still fifth in line) and when she gave birth to Regina. During that time, some events may have happend to make Henry the next heir.