Royal baby Albert?

[FindTheLightSwitchDarren]

Apparently Ladbrokes are offering odds of 14-1 that the Royal baby will be named Albert. But won't that make him Prince Albert, like the intimate piercing?

I know the first (?) Prince Albert (Victoria's husband) came before the piercing, but surely the D&DoC won't use it now they know about the piercing.

Checking as I'm expecting a boy before they are and like the name Albert! Not set on it though.

[FindTheLightSwitchDarren]

Btw, it sounds from that^^ as if I know the D&DoC are having a boy - I don't!

[ErrolTheDragon]

surely the D&DoC won't use it now they know about the piercing.

Wtf would they (or the majority of the population) know about names given to piercings?It wouldn't have occurred to me that piercings might even have a name.

It makes me think, more happily, of Albert and the Lion.

[Sophronia]

I don’t think it will be Albert due to the piercing. I think they’re more likely to go with Arthur or Alfred.

[Unihorn]

Yeah definitely screams piercing to me. I sort of hope they go with it.

[FindTheLightSwitchDarren]

Errol is that the poem about the little boy getting eaten by a lion? My amazing granny used to recite this at family parties. She did it very well. I'd rather be pierced than eaten though, tbf .

Surely most people know about the piercing... or am I really strange for knowing ? I mentioned it to a quite straight laced friend and even he knew what it was, so I thought everyone must!

[FindTheLightSwitchDarren]

Oh x-post; glad it's not just me!

[Unihorn]

My husband has one which is probably the main reason I know however!

[FindTheLightSwitchDarren]

Ah fair enough unihorn! Does he like it? He must if he's still got one I guess!

[elQuintoConyo]

What piercing where? I am totally lost.

Shit name for a baby, anyway.

[Unihorn]

I assume so! I don't really notice it too much.

[ErrolTheDragon]

My DM could recite albert and the lion too (and the Return of Albert). Which makes me a generation older than you so maybe that explains my ignorance of piercings...

[kaytee87]

Have never heard of the piercing. Don't know why the royal family would have heard of it either.

[ScarletSienna]

I’d think piercing too and I’m the same age as them so I think they’d avoid!

[Unihorn]

I don't think the royals live in a complete bubble from modern culture. Especially given they both attended university and are of an age where I would assume they would know about the piercing.

[FindTheLightSwitchDarren]

I'm a year and a bit younger than DoC, so I think they'll know it.

Errol, wonder if you're my auntie ! Did you used to be a primary teacher?

[sinceyouask]

There are more than a handful people who haven't heard of the Prince Albert piercing? I wouldn't have thought so.

[kaytee87]

I don't live in a bubble and am 30yo, haven't heard of it. Is it an English thing? Pretty sure it's not a thing in Scotland anyway.

[Unihorn]

I'm Welsh, so no.

[Unihorn]

Also it was first around in the 70s so not particularly modern either.

[FindTheLightSwitchDarren]

I'm not English either. I can't remember if I first heard of it in England, Ireland or Scotland though... Could have been any of them.

[elQuintoConyo]

I've lived in Barcelona since 1998, so no i haven't heard of it.

Can someone put me out of my misery re the piercing? Is it in the foreskin? I'm guessing foreskin. Or through the nads.

[Unihorn]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_(genital_piercing)

[kaytee87]

Think I'm going to have to text my husband and see if he knows what it is

[YogaPants]

I would bet on Arthur rather than Albert, because of the piercing.

Not such if it was a girl. Alice, maybe?

[FindTheLightSwitchDarren]

Yeah I reckon Alice if a girl or maybe Elizabeth? I know sisters called Charlotte and Alice. Both born a few years before the royal children.