Who is Regina/EQ...really?

[maddarilke.livejournal.com]

I know that most of the residents of Storybrooke have names that have a connection to their Fairyland characters--

Mary-Margaret Blanchard = "Blanche" is French for "white."
Ruby = Red Riding Hood
Regina = Latin for "Queen"
Archie Hopper = Crickets "hop"

...etc. Now, look at the Mayor's full name: Regina Mills.

Didn't the story of Rumplestiltskin begin with a Miller's daughter?

Could Regina have been The Miller's Daughter before she was an Evil Queen? And would that mean that she's known Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold for far longer than we're aware right now?
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Comments

[madwitch58.livejournal.com]

unless Rumpelstiltskin is not his real name, he could have a diffident birth name and taken the name of Rumpelstiltskin. that's what i would do if i were him.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

that makes sense.

though then it's the folk tale that is puzzling - was that set back when few even knew what his assumed name ("rumplestiltskin") was, and he tricked them into thinking his true name was Rumplestiltskin?

I like your idea.