Lottie Pumpkin

Kabocha-chan (By Miko and Rio)

Princess Mayfutt (By Max)

Beady Curran (Step Mother)

Descendant of  Liliana Mayfutt

**Lottie Pumpkin** (born **Charlotte Edith Curren-Pitkin**) is a 14-year old (as of the first book) from Cornwall, England, and the main character of the Rosewood Chronicles. She is a student at Rosewood Hall. After a misunderstanding in the first days of her time at Rosewood, Lottie became the Portman of her roommate, the Crown Princess of Maradova, Eleanor Wolfson, acting as the princess in Ellie's stead.

## **History**

Lottie was born to Simon Curren, a gambler, and Marguerite Pitkin, a baker who worked at a patisserie. Curren lost all his money due to gambling and left the country, leaving Pitkin to take care of her daughter on her own.

As a child, Lottie's mother would read her many different versions of the fairy tale *The Glass Slipper* also known as *Cinderella.* This fed into her long-time fascination with fairy tales.

She was given a crown by her mother on her seventh birthday and has cherished it ever since. The crown is described as a "crescent-moon tiara" made of silver and is a family heirloom that's been in the Pumpkins for generations. Her mother taught her a princess-like saying which Lottie now uses as her mantra, "I will be kind, I will be brave, I will be unstoppable."

On Lottie's mother's deathbed, Lottie couldn't promise her mother to just be happy and instead promises her that she will be happy and get into Rosewood Hall, her mothers' school, where only the richest attend. Lottie's mother died from leukemia on February 14, when Lottie was nine. Her dad returned with a new wife, Beady, who took care of Lottie as her stepmother. He soon left again. Lottie then changed her name to **Lottie Pumpkin** to escape her father's name and debts.

## **Undercover Princess**

After much hard work, Lottie was accepted into Rosewood on a bursary. She was one of the 22 only people to achieve the exceptional-circumstances scholarship in Rosewood's 300 years of operation, the school being mainly for children of famous figures who attend from a young age. By entering the school, she left behind her stepmother Beady and her childhood friend Ollie, who she promised to write to while at Rosewood.

On the first day, she met Binah Fae, an extremely intelligent student. She misheard Binah asking if she was from a different "country" as a different "county" and responded yes, which led to students initially believing she was an international student. Binah introduced her to Anastacia Alcroft LeBlanc, Lola Tompkins, and Mickey Tompkins, who all acted as her guides.

Lottie met her room-mate Ellie Wolf who she initially had a negative opinion of. While Lottie excitedly set up her half of the dorm room, Ellie had a messy room and teased Lottie for being mad about it, assuming Lottie was a priviledged person, getting her dress dirty as well as her stuffed animal. Lottie had an outburst, revealing to Ellie that she's a commoner who got into Rosewood on a scholarship, which made Ellie feel guilty and apologize.

She and her new friends walked together to the start-of-year fireworks show, meeting Raphael and Saskia. Noticing adults standing at the perimeter, Lottie asked the students who they were. They were shocked at Lottie's confusion, and Binah explained the concept of Partizans to her.

After the fireworks show, Lottie noticed a parcel at the door of her dorm room. Inside was a copy of the book *The Company of Wolves,* and a note reading "I know your secret." Ellie was already asleep when Lottie got back, so Lottie worried about the gift on her own. She finalized on the conclusion that it was about the aforementioned misunderstanding of her nationality, and decided to come clean to Binah about it.

As an Ivy student, Lottie wasn't allowed access into the Stratus house, but she luckily found Ms. Kuma, the Stratus house mother, struggling to carry art supplies. She offered to help her out, acting as an excuse to get into the dorm.

## Relationships

### Haruki Hinamori

In The Lost Princess, Lottie is impressed by Haru's ability to calm Jamie down, and she puzzles over how someone so gentle could be a Partizan. Later, when Sayuri reveals his affiliation with Leviathan, she stops trusting him.

In Princess at Heart, Haru blackmails Lottie into silence about his true identity as a member of Leviathan. In exchange for the safety of the other Rosewood students, Lottie would have to exchange letters with the leader of Leviathan, Claude Wolfson, allow Haru to spent an hour alone with Jamie without disturbance, and keep his true identity a secret. This caused Lottie to have a severely negative relationship with Haru until the events of Princess Ever After.

### Sayuri Chiba

Initially, Sayuri shows a mild dislike towards Lottie due to her desire to interfere with Leviathan's plans. Later, after the discovery that in Liliana Mayfutt and Kou Fujiwara were close friends in the latter's museum, Sayuri warms up to Lottie, who now sees her as a sister, and accepts her offer to work against Leviathan with Banshee.

## **Trivia**

* Lottie's surname is a reference to the object that was transformed into a carriage in Cinderella (Disney's version of Lottie's favorite fairy tale, *The Glass Slipper*)
* Lottie is allergic to apples
* Lottie is a vegetarian
* Lottie's real last name is Curran.
* Lottie's star sign is Virgo (August 23- September 22)