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

[wicked-reigns.livejournal.com]

I also think it interesting we don't really know her first name, she is always referred to as "The Queen", so perhaps her first name might give us some clues.

My theory was that she loved someone else, but she somehow HAD to marry Snow's father (perhaps arranged/marriage of convenience, etc).
She already might have a grudge against Snow, because not only must she functionally serve as a wife to a man she might not love, but also as a mother to someone who is not her daughter.

Perhaps she confided in Snow her first love/magical ability, etc. in a ditch effort to get along?

Snow betrayed that only trust she had - and now she's bent on revenge. But that was just some of the theories going around in my head.

I like the Miller idea, I am mostly waiting for the writers to get us in the loop.