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Are you watching Once Upon a Time? How ’bout Grimm? Fairy tale figures are the new vampires on the small screen this season – romantic, full of possibilities, seen on multiple networks.
One thing that strikes me about the shows so far is that the names are … fine. They’re good names, appropriate for the plot lines. If you were the Evil Queen’s alter ego, living in Storybook, Maine, it seems sensible that your name would be Regina.
But they’re not exciting names, and if we’ve learned anying from Disney it should be this: naming a princess is a huge opportunity. So here’s my list of names for a possible fairy tale princess. Most of them have yet to don a glass slipper or sing with animated birds in the forest, but I think any of them would be smashing choices for a fictional maiden of the royal variety.
