This article is about Regina Mills' father. For Regina's son, see Henry Mills. For other characters with the same name, see Henry (disambiguation).
- “I love you no matter what. That's what father's do.”
- ―Henry to Regina Mills[src]
Prince Henry Mills is a character featured in the ABC fantasy-drama series, Once Upon a Time. He is primarily portrayed by Tony Perez.
He was husband to Cora, and father to Regina, the Evil Queen. He was betrothed to Cora, and whilst the two were married, she held no real love for him, and was often controlling of both him and their daughter. After Cora is banished from the realm, Henry resides with Regina, who goes on to become the Evil Queen. He eventually meets the end of his fate, after Regina sacrifices him to enact the Dark Curse.
After his death, Henry spends decades in the underworld until he is able to leave after he has completed his unfinished business, which is eventually completed and he departs to Mount Olympus after helping Regina and her son, Henry, who thanks his namesake grandfather.
History[]
Prince Henry Mills is the son of King Xavier. He is the husband of Cora Mills and father to Regina Mills. In the Enchanted Forest, he marries Cora after she demonstrates the ability to spin straw into gold. He is later the loving but weak father of the Evil Queen, Regina, and serves as her royal valet in the Enchanted Forest.
When Regina is a young child, she accidentally gets into Cora's drawer, which she sealed with blood magic, to play with the wand. However, the power of the wand knocks Regina out and Henry and Cora find her on the ground. Henry tries to get Regina to wake up but it is no use because of the magic. After Cora is able to find someone, revealed to be her long-lost daughter Zelena, Henry is by Regina's side as she awakens along with Cora and Zelena.
As Regina grows up, Henry is supportive of her, but does not protect her against the manipulations or actions of her mother. He is later held captive in Wonderland by Cora as leverage against Regina, who eventually rescues him. When it is Regina's birthday, she spends it as she spends every day - trying to get Snow White's heart so she can crush it. Henry tries to reason with her as he doesn't believe this is how she should spend her birthday. As a gift for her daughter, Cora is able to get Snow's heart but Henry returns it to the princess as he believes she does not deserve to die and that Regina needs to turn over a new leaf and not give into what her mother wants.
When Rumplestiltskin informs Regina she must retrieve the heart of who she loves most to enact his dark curse, she kills him. In Storybrooke, Regina appears to have cared a great deal for her father, naming her adopted son Henry and turning his tomb into a large mausoleum. After his death, Henry was sent to the underworld for about four decades.
Years later while trying to find Hook, Regina meets Henry, who apologizes for her actions back in the Enchanted Forest. Later, Cora threatens to send him to Hell as a way to instruct Regina to leave the Underworld. When at the entrance to Hell, Regina tries to persuade her mother not to send her father to Hell which she starts to do. What Cora doesn't know is that Henry was spared upon his unfinished business of Regina being free of her mother. Henry then meets his namesake grandson. Before heading to Mount Olympus, Henry tells his grandson to watch over his daughter and to remember who she is. Regina tearfully watches her father cross the bridge as he makes his way to a better place. Snow asks if Henry is okay to which Regina says he is more than okay because he is in a better place. Regina smiles as she looks at the clock tower as the hands of time move once more, signifying Henry's departure from the Underworld.
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- Prince Henry was the only person, other than Regina's son, his namesake, whom she actually showed genuine love for, as her love for him was the reason she could enact the first curse.
- Henry died in 1983, therefore he had been in the Underworld for about 40 years by the time his daughter and her friends arrived to rescue Killian Jones, and Henry could leave as he had completed his unfinished business. .[1]
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- ↑ The episode "Welcome to Storybrooke" reveals that Regina enacted the first curse in 1983