Prologue:

Regina was getting sick of all she had undertaken to date, to create her own happiness. It was always getting destroyed at one time or another. Always the fault of the Charming family.

The mother had killed her soul mate through ignorance and her daughter brought back from the past, Robin's wife, Marian, and thus destroying her happiness. She was depressed that all the people she had ever loved was taken away from her.

First, Daniel her first love, her father, her adopted son Henry named after Regina's father and finally Robin, her second love. Anyway, for Storybrook, she will forever remain the Evil Queen despite her efforts to change, they will always judge her for her past sins.