Evil Queen's Palace

"Your palace is as lovely as you are kind."

- The Genie to King Leopold

The Dark Palace is an Enchanted Forest location on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the second episode of the first season.

Trivia
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On-Screen Notes

 * The design of Henry's new playground castle is similar to the dark palace.
 * Eva's bedchamber in the palace is the same one later used by Regina during her reign as queen.
 * The dark palace is featured in the title card for "The Evil Queen".
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Production Notes

 * This location is referred to as the Tower Castle in episode scripts.
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Prop Notes

 * The royal family has two different coats of arms:
 * One shows a lion, and can be seen on a fireplace, castle banners and a gazebo.
 * The other one shows several overlapping squares, with a torch billowing out flames at the top, and a crown. This motif can be seen on castle banners and a fireplace.
 * Regina adopts a differently colored version of this coat of arms after she becomes queen.
 * There is a sculpture of a dragon in Regina's chambers.
 * Two golden urns can be seen among Regina's wedding gifts. The same urns, but with a different color, are used to decorate Cora's heart vault in her home in "The Doctor".
 * The golden version of the urns are reused later in the series: One of them can be seen aboard the Jolly Roger in "Snow Drifts", while the other one doubles as the urn Elsa comes out of in "There's No Place Like Home".
 * The gazebo on the castle grounds from "Bleeding Through", was reused as the gazebo on Bo Peep's estate. The prop/set was redressed for this episode; most noticeably; King Leopold's coat of arms (a lion) was replaced with Bo Peep's crest: a sheep.
 * The same prop/set is used for the Arendelle Castle gazebo in "The Snow Queen". A new roof was added for this episode.
 * Snow White's council table in Isaac's alternate reality, is an alternate version of the Royal Castle council table from "Pilot", "The Shepherd" and "The Stranger". The new table, is painted in different colors, and Snow White and Prince Charming's crest has been replaced with Regina's crest.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.


 * The Dark Palace appears in Henry's storybook in "Hat Trick".
 * The Dark Palace is mentioned in the storybook in "Snow Falls".