Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-4839682-20140320020145/@comment-1894786-20141211012610

Applegirl wrote: Arctucrus wrote: I'm game for "likely", and only "likely", as somewhere someone (was it Killian...?) posted a link to a tweet by Jane Espenson (I think?), saying they could not confirm Ana and Ella were sisters. Yep, Killian did ask her. She isn't able to confirm they are sisters. Her response here: https://twitter.com/JaneEspenson/status/446071873479012352 I know this thread is old, but...

Considering Jane's response, and the fact that Will is on Regular Once, with A&E confirming they were trying to get Emma Rigby back, AND Cinderella's random ass appearance a few weeks ago, I'm pretty sure this is canon at this point. The Red Queen is most definitely Anastasia Tremaine, and will most likely be confirmed to be the same woman in either 4B or even 5A, depending on when they can get her on the show.

My concern is, there's a famous movie based on the Russian Princess Anastasia from the 90's (usually attributed to Disney due to the similar art style to Hunchback Of Notredame and the close release dates between the two movies). And in that movie, Anastasia is very much a princess (whereas our Ana is a Queen) and she loses her memory, and falls in love with a conman and thief who saved her life and reintroduces her to royal life (Will saved her from death, and was the reason she became Queen in the first place, then helps her reclaim her kingdom).

So maybe Ana lost her memory (which isn't farfetched at all in this show) and then Will was banished to the EF or Storybrooke by someone (Jafar?) with no way to help her restore her memories and Anastasia is not only the White/Red Queen and the Evil Stepsister, but also Princess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.