Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7526254-20170430003451/@comment-4260948-20190813122607

Per ages, etc - biologically, Regina should be seventy nine or eighty, depending on whether Lucy is actually nine or ten; the only reason she isn't that old biologically or in looks is due to the 28 years of Storybrooke time when no-one (bar Henry) aged. She should, per time that has passed and with ageing, be no younger than 42 at the time she returns to join Henry in 7x02 and no younger than 52 at the time the new curse is cast.

According to Regina Rising, Regina was eighteen at the time she rescued Snow. According to the twenty eight year old Emma - we know her to be still twenty-eight as less than a year passes between "Pilot" and "Going Home" - in "The Heart of the Truest Believer", she and her parents are the same age, which means there are another eighteen years for the Dark Curse to be cast - this makes Snow twenty-eight years old and Regina thirty-six years old at it's casting. Another twenty-eight years under the Dark Curse, during which she did not age, would have made Regina sixty-four; add on a four year time span in the first six seasons (2011 - 2015) and you reach sixty-eight, a few years before Henry's departure in "Hyperion Heights" and you reach seventy. Add a minimum of a decade - factoring in time to defeat Tremaine and for Cinderella to have a nine-month pregnancy and the words of the writers that Lucy is nine or ten, and you reach the age of eighty for Regina.

What that means is that, biologically, Snow should be eight years younger than Regina and Charming should be aout 12 years younger - as he's about 4 years younger than Snow - and means that Snow whould be abour 71/72 and Charming would be either 67/68 if they'd aged naturally.