Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20160721010527/@comment-24304025-20160721122254

The Red Queen could be a previous queen, yes. I believe she could be the Red King's mother very well.

Anyway, I once read a theory (don't remember it all) but it had Ana going to WL, then she decided to go back to the EF to get her mother's approval, to show her who she had become, something like that. During this "visit" the ball took place and Ana attended it. When she saw that Ella, the poor ugly despicable Ella, was chosen by the prince, she realized that if she had never gone to WL in the first place it might have been her.

That's not very accurate. I'll see if I find the right theory, but the point here is that Ana went to the ball after going to WL. She came back home and then back to WL after seeing that Ella got it all and all she had was an old husband and subjects that thought she was crazy