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BabbleMonkey wrote: We're forgetting babies. If Cora is 5th in line with Prince Henry, anyone who has a child ahead of them would be in line for the throne before her and her children. Like whoever was next in line after Queen Victoria of England became 10th by the time she had all of her kids, and further and further from the throne as each of them had kids. ^^^This is why Cora seemingly transferred her hopes to Regina, even going so far as to give her a name that means "Queen". I assume(d) that, from that point, she concentrated on making Regina a queen. She was already a princess, and that's no small thing... there could be any number of kingdoms that would have been interested in marrying a son to Regina, including some that would have made her Queen. Cora could have tried any number of things to facilitate that.

I suspect she targeted Leopold for this reason. She knew she could get her daughter married to him. How exactly that went down, maybe with some coercion or mmmmmmmagic, well, we can speculate all day! (and we have)

I wonder what she would have done if she was around, not sent to Wonderland. I'm sure she would have had a ball controlling Regina to do her bidding. Hell, she may have found that more fun than just being Queen herself.