No, she's mom to both of them, she just pretended to be a maid when talking to the journalist, so the journalist misidentified her.
Honestly, her showing that she can speak up when she wants leaves me liking her less. It seems to indicate that she simply stood by and willingly allowed herself to be used as an excuse to tear down her sister time after time, rather than because she was too spineless to speak up. It just feels like, ok, you stopped people from talking shit about her...years after it was actually relevant and her life was ruined. And it doesn't feel like a character development thing, because she didn't feel like saying a damn thing to apologize or connect with her sister five seconds earlier. She even knows that her own damn fiance-soon-to-be-husband sent assassins after Katrina, yet has the gall to refer to Katrina's desire for revenge as "madness", and its the only things she has to say to her sister.
I had really been expecting some "actually Aurora was in Katrina's corner" twist, but at this point, Aurora's support is as good as apathy if that's the case.
It would depend on whether there was anything to be done on Aurora's end in this moment and time.
Karina literally crashed her sister's wedding to her own former fiance, and made a big show of intimidating the gathered nobility and pontificating about her plight and how she's come to reclaim what's hers--the ring, namely--and didn't
really give anyone a chance to get a word in edgewise.
Aurora, for her part, is still embroiled in the Royal Family, and all the corresponding realpolitik.
Years have been spent, outside of her direct control, in defaming Karina and smearing or erasing her name from history, and the Prince himself is a vitriolic proponent of that ongoing campaign.
Could Aurora have said
something in the interim? Perhaps, but there's no guarantee it wouldn't have jeopardized her own standing or safety, and if she were persecuted or kicked out or harmed, herself--then what could she do for her sister, at that point?
Even here in this situation, speaking out against the prince, when the entire room is turned against her sister, doesn't really...benefit Aurora or Karina in any way. And I don't believe that Karina herself would believe her sister, should Aurora have said anything to counter Karina's perception of her. The older sister is so convinced of and caught up in her persecution by everyone in her life and kingdom that Aurora saying something
now would be dismissed,
and would raise questions and suspicions from the Prince and from the nobility in attendance.
That's not to say it's not highly suspect, but - there's at least
an explanation for her silence in this moment. Karina also didn't actually lash out and attack anyone, and so I could see a line where Aurora let her "talk shit", as it were, deigning not to step in so long as blood didn't start hitting the tile.
Plus...we're just getting started with the actual current events, I wager, and there's still lots of questions even beyond Aurora's true intentions and motivations. I imagine more will be revealed in time.
