At King Leopold’s funeral, Queen Regina comforted her stepdaughter, Snow White, but the whole time she schemed to arrange her death. She hired The Huntsman to carve out her heart, but when he couldn’t bring himself to do it, she took his instead, making him her unwilling servant. From then on she constantly worked to capture and kill the outlaw princess. In the meantime, she tricked two children, Hansel and Gretel, into stealing a magic apple from The Blind Witch—then killed her. She also tricked Belle into revealing her love for Rumplestiltskin, which she knew would cause a rift between them. Then she captured Belle and told Rumple that she had been killed. In short, she became the scourge of Fairy Tale Land, the malevolent sorceress everyone came to know as The Evil Queen.