Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5679696-20130311021240/@comment-129.81.125.232-20130316133756

58.185.114.117 wrote: I am pretty sure Eva did something either intentionally (she was quite the bitch back then) or otherwise that resulted in Cora losing her chance at being queen. This can be implied from the scene where Cora looks over Eva's dead body and says something along the line that she (Eva) took everything away from her.

The part about Regina being next to be Queen in the final scenes can be explained by the fact that some amount of time must have passed between the time when Cora married Henry (when she was still fifth in line) and when she gave birth to Regina. During that time, some events may have happend to make Henry the next heir.

OR Cora was just being really arrogant and presumptuous in naming Regina. The plan was for Regina to become queen one day - that doesn't mean that she was next in line right then and there. It just means that Cora was prepared to do everything in her power from that point on to ensure that Regina WOULD become queen.