Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25355646-20140828223515/@comment-24386552-20140914194452

Even if Cora managed to succeed in her plan, and married Leopold, there is still the possibility that hers and Jonathan's baby could come early before she and Leopold could consummate their marriage, leading to him getting confused and angry and possibly executing her for having a baby with another man. Though he can't divorce her in EF he still had the power to have her executed. He had the power to lock Regina up in 1.11, so he would have the same rights to execute Cora, if he found out the baby wasn't his.