Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-6175354-20161010033114/@comment-1867880-20161108093804

Hmcooper4 wrote: Not a bad guess, but that's assuming that King George knew about Charming's Dad, and that Charming's Dad knew about King George.

The way that Rumple does deals, I don't see that as a possibility, though. Rumple reveals only as much information as required to complete a deal. In the Charming case, the deal was that was made was 1 child to preserve the family farm. Rumple probably spun them enough gold to pay whatever needed to be paid. If Papa Charming (I'll be so glad when we finally get a name for this character) were to go after anyone, it would likely be Rumple. And the child was then delivered to King George, No Questions asked, in exchange for some something that George could provide (maybe information on his Fairy Godmother connection).

Now, it is possible that Papa went to see Rumple, Rumple told Papa that his son was with King George and that he could go and take him if he dared, which would draw in King George at that point. But King George would not care about staging an accident. All he'd do is say that he was guilty of some crime and have him executed. That's what Kings and Queens do. Well, I liked CoolDudeAl's theory because I thought it would provide a nice parallel between Charming's feud with King George and Snow's feud with Cora back in season two - a villain he already hated who he later learned was behind the death of one of his parents.