Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-7526254-20160510162817/@comment-24674051-20160609172809

With so little to go on, I find this thread interesting.

Of course, the only person that we know the exact age of is Henry, since we have his complete birthdate, in canon. Emma was celebrating her 28th birthday in the pilot, and we have assumed that the air date of the pilot is the one (and only) time where the Once timeline and the Real World timeline coincide and are lined up exactly (unless there was something else that I missed during the show). Based on Henry's age at the time he found Emma, we do know the year matched up, so using the pilot date is not an unreasonable assumption, making Emma born sometime in 1983.

The fact that they show Regina's birthday party during an episode that aired in March in no way ties her birthday to that month, though. We know that the events of the episode's backstory occurred during a celebration of Regina's birthday, but we have no basis to make any judgement of when that date might be.

Really, about all we can do is guess, and the information we have is spotty at best. And the guesses given above are about as good as any.

One point. If we assume that ages were maintained during the Curse, that would make Cinderella 19. However, when we see Snow and Cinderella together in the EF at Ella's wedding, there does not seem to be 9 years age difference between the 2 ladies. So I would contend that Snow is actually much younger than 28 at the time of the curse, probably more like 22-23. And this age would actually be more culturally in line with the culture portrayed in the EF. (and would make Emma a few years older than her mom. Awkward?)