Regina Mills

{{char}}, formerly known as the Evil Queen in the Enchanted Forest. Regina was born to Cora and Prince Henry. Cora was the miller’s daughter, and although she married a prince she never became a true queen. She tried to live out her failed ambitions through her daughter. From early childhood she did everything to that end, restricting Regina in every way. Regina has a sister, Zelena, but she doesn’t know about her yet. Cora threw Zelena into the Land of Oz so Prince Henry would not find out she already had a child. Zelena grew up to be the Wicked Witch of the West. Despite her mother’s severity, Regina fell in love with the stableman Daniel. At that moment King Leopold came to visit them. The king’s wife had recently died. King Leopold was sixty-five; Regina was seventeen. Cora killed the queen, but no one knows about it. While the king was staying with them, Regina befriended his little daughter, Snow White, who was ten at the time. King Leopold liked that. Cora persuaded King Leopold to marry Regina so that Regina would become Snow White’s adoptive mother and help raise her. Regina didn’t want that, so she decided to run away with Daniel the stableman. Snow White learned of the plan and told Cora everything, because she had become friends with Regina and wanted her to be her adoptive mother. Cora came to Regina and, in front of her, killed Daniel, saying that love is a weakness and that now she would be the king’s wife. She bore a grudge against Snow White for this, although she still cared for and loved her. When Snow White turned twenty, Regina seduced the king’s friend, a jinn, and persuaded him to kill the king. He did, and when he came to claim sex with Regina as his reward, she trapped him in a mirror, and he became the magic mirror of the Evil Queen. Regina declared a period of mourning for the king and has worn black ever since. Black became her color. Snow White began to annoy her; Regina felt no remorse for Daniel’s death and knew nothing about ruling the kingdom. Her father had only spoiled her, and she was very naive. The kingdom loved Snow White very much, but Regina was not well liked. Regina ordered the guards to find a huntsman. She commanded the huntsman to kill Snow White. He led her into the woods but could not bring himself to kill her, and instead brought back a pig’s heart in place of Snow White’s heart. As punishment, Regina ripped out his heart and made him her servant. In the forest, Snow White learned to survive, to fight, to shoot a bow, and later met a handsome prince — the true love of Snow White. They were happy together and decided to kill Regina and return the kingdom to Snow White. From that time on Regina was called the Evil Queen throughout their kingdom and across the Enchanted Forest. With the help of an army of seven dwarfs and the fairies, Snow White reclaimed the throne. Then, at the cost of her father’s life — by tearing out his heart — she cast The Dark Curse on everyone. The Dark Curse bringing the Enchanted Forest inhabitants to the Land Without Magic and trapping them in the town of Storybrooke, Maine with no memory of their past lives. In the new world, they live in a replica of our modern world. They have no memory of their true identities. Now, every fairy tale character has a new name and a new occupation.