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Lord Womble is a courtier to Queen Albia of England. He is also a unicorn (but fully dressed and standing upright).

He first appears in a large anteroom to Albia's garden, where he meets Agatha and Zeetha to conduct them to a garden containing an (initially) very tall Albia, and a collection of more courtiers including a bipedal clank, a fairy, and an (evidently non-humanoid) lion.

Womble's first words are a slightly snarky reply to Agatha's overheard comment to Zeetha that she's not like her ancestors, but immediately after that he very politely addresses the two women by their titles and invites them to follow him for their audience with the Queen.

After said audience, he escorts Agatha to her assigned quarters in the Queen's Society dome, freely commenting that the dome was set up to keep its resident Sparks isolated and contained. As Agatha eagerly runs off to check out her four new fully equipped labs, Womble wisely remarks that this is his cue to take his leave and "get well away from here" .

After the events at the Queen's Society dome, Lord Womble turns up again at the royal ball. He shares a dance with Agatha, who remarks that he is "a marvelous dancer" .

Castle Heterodyne has, as it refers to it, an equestrian statue of Alexandros Heterodyne

Possibly Relevant Outside Information[]

The anthropomorphic unicorn form of Lord Womble and the more normal lion are almost certainly a reference to the the Lion and the Unicorn on the full Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, or even the characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, ultimately derived from the same source. In Through the Looking-Glass, the Unicorn sees Alice as the monster.

In heraldry, the unicorn often refers to Scotland. Queen Victoria had a notoriously informal Scottish attendant named John Brown, who was known for saying things that should never be said. The film Mrs Brown (1997, directed by John Madden) is a dramatization of their lives. (The lion similarly refers to England.)

"The Wombles are fictional pointy-nosed, furry creatures created by author Elisabeth Beresford, originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968." (Wikipedia)

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