Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-23962251-20131011025554/@comment-5655661-20131011154623

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: The Red Queen is the the rightful ruler of Wonderland, because she is actually native. Her palece is based on a chess set, because her kingdom is a literal chessboard. It is also possible, that the White Queen was the Red Queen's mother.

Cora was the Queen of Hearts, who rule over a deck of cards. Not to mention, she stole people's hearts to gain power.... she bought her thone. It's just an assumption that Red Queen is the rightful ruler of Wonderland, it's more like Wonderland is divided between few kingdoms (which is another assumption). It is also possible that she took over Wonderland after Cora left, or maybe she was Cora's protege or even heir. Anyway, I like the theory of Cora being an usurper, it fits her social climbing personality. As someone already said, we have to wait and we will probably get answers to these questions during series run.