Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre
Daughter of King Verence II and Magrat Garlick, Princess Esme made her appearance in Carpe Jugulum. Her unusual middle names are the result of a Lancre tradition that whatever the priest says at the naming ceremony is your name (thus, Lancre once had a king called My-God-He's-Heavy the First, as well as a current farmer named James What the Hell's That Cow Doing in Here Poorchick, usually called 'Moocow'). Magrat – who owed her own name to a combination of this tradition and her mother's inability to spell "Margaret" – was determined it wouldn't happen again, hence the "Note Spelling".
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