Lilibet Diana — what do we think?

It sounds very american celebrity babyname as does Lili which is a 'cre8tive' spelling of classic Lily, it seems like Megan was trying to fit in with her hollywood crowd whilst trying to make a strong link with the queen and imo overreached. Why not just use Elizabeth and call her Lilibet as a petname or Lily for short? That would be more aristocratic and traditional. Perhaps it is Elizabeth on the birth certificate.

How many people in the U.S have the name Lilibet: 141

www.whatisthemeaningofname.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-name-lilibet-20077/

Lilienthal= lily valley, I think. Also a German watch.

Not a fan to be honest although Lily is lovely. I just don't like the look of the spelling Lili. Very happy for them though.

Very clever and manipulative choice

I mean, if they really wanted to kiss the Queen’s arse and try and get back in the good books after all they’ve put her and the rest of the family through pay tribute to the Queen, they could have used Elizabeth. Or Lili.

Lilibet as a nickname is fine, but as a first name is just daft.

Also my autocorrect keeps trying to change it to Lilienthal. I don’t even know what that means.

Archie and Lili work well though, and it’s sweet that they’ve named them for their grandmother and great grandmother.

Surprised they didn’t include Doria or one of Meghan’s other relatives though, given that they’ve said they’re stopping at 2 so they won’t have another opportunity.

Such CF to take and use the queen's affectionately remembered childhood nickname to imbue their children with an aura of royalty for later monetization.

Just seems a bit embarrassing and try hard to me what with all the public slagging off they've been doing. Lily would have worked better

Apparently Lilibet is a name (in US, Australia, Germany, even here), as someone has repeatedly said over on the utter ranting, raging bin fire taking place on a thread elsewhere. It's a wonder it's not been taken down.

So I think Archie and Lili really match but am a bit perplexed at the Lilibet thing.

Even the whole confusing family dynamic playing out very publicly, WHY do they always have to honour the Queen in the names? Lena Tindell has Elizabeth for a middle name too and so has Isla Phillips (also the great grand daughters of the Queen) so it’s hardly just Princess Charlotte. I get that people like to honour relatives and that’s an even bigger thing in the RF but even so. I’m not sure how touched the Queen would be vs probably expected Elizabeth and Diana to both be in there anyway because they all do it?

I don’t know if the Queen is called Lilibet more than we know maybe but for me it seems almost uncomfortably close (the use of the nickname rather than the formal name). My children have half ridiculous / twee nicknames like that too and if a future grandchild or great grandchild used the twee made-up nickname as a real name I actually don’t think I’d be that pleased. It would be too personal and a bit odd, like over stepping..?

They’re also such a stuffy family that I find the use of Lilibet over Elizabeth a hard one to imagine. I can’t imagine Harry ever called his grandmother that.

I just can’t imagine being an adult and introducing myself as Lilibet… if they liked Lili i think just call her Lili, not a baby sounding nickname as her full name.

Lilibet (Lili) is a bit cutesy to me, so works well with similar Archie imo. Whereas Diana is classical and elegant so I think the two names together makes a nice complementary combo.

However due to the feud, the name as a whole does seem a bit "we are still Royal, honest" of her parents - because the strong associations of both names. Hopefully that will be forgotten in a short time as people just associate them with the child instead.

If they wanted to use family names, I do think "Diana Lilibet/Elizabeth Doria" would have been even nicer - but with the nn Annie rather than Di as that's too associated with Harry's Mum. Annie and Archie would be a lovely sibset (I don't think Princess Anne has ever been called/known as Annie?).

I've popped my head around the door of some of the other threads on this subject and oh my word, so many people act as though they know these people and are themselves part of these families. So emotionally involved in it all, to an unnerving degree.

Obviously Charlotte and new baby have the same grandmother and great-grandmother so it's not like they've stolen Charlotte's middle names. It's not really something you put dibs on.

Considering the queen allegedly hates the name lilibet (I dont know her personally so im only going off longstanding press rumours) its probably not what I would have gone with plus it was supposed to mean Elizabeth so they have essentially named her Elizabeth Diana which is Charlottes middle name......its not what I would have done however im not them

Lily is a nice name in its own right though

Trying to worm themselves back into the favour of the Royal Family no doubt

The tweets from the RF are very .. um... regal.

I'm just 🥴 at the person upthread that thinks Doria Diana would 'have worked really well' have you been sniffing glue??

I don't like nicknames as names personally, rather have the option of a proper name should the child wish to use it, but each to their own.

Aren't they only acknowledging Harry's side of the family?

I don't mind the name either way really. It's a cute tribute.
I just wish the baby a very happy and healthy life