Lilibet Diana — what do we think?

I think The Queen is the epitome of smile and wave. No matter what happens, she'll say "How wonderful!". Charles and William are a different matter altogether.

My friend who has known me for 50 years has always called me Lilebet ...so am actually loving their choice..!

I heard that HMTQ secretly flew out to LA and personally asked D and DoS to name the baby after her.

I also thought cabbage was Prince Philip's name for the Queen.

Bloody hotline to the palace has been busy though if you read some of the stuff on here that would be the assumption, no wonder the new Parents up and left!

'lost husband' makes it sound like he's missing in action at Ypres or went out to sea and never came back.

He died just shy of his 100th birthday after having had quite a lovely life. I'm sure she misses him but I doubt she winces every time something reminds her of him. She strikes me as quite a stoic woman so I doubt she needs random strangers deciding there's melodrama where there's none.

I think they picked it for all the wrong reasons and didn't think about how the Queen might feel. I bet the Queen winces every time she hears 'Lilibet', as it will remind her of her lost husband.

Or maybe she finds it comforting ?

Ridiculous. Especially as his nickname for her was 'Cabbage'.

True.

I bet the Queen winces every time she hears 'Lilibet', as it will remind her of her lost husband.

Oh my god dying 😂 😂😂

Must step away from the thread. Must step away.

[quote Roussette]Quite right on this....

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrister-suspended-over-meghan-markle-baby-tweet/5108764.article#.YL97tMSVP7M.twitter[/quote]
Yes, agreed. Judging by some of the sentiments expressed by some on here, you’d think Harry and Meghan have done something rather foul. Naming their daughter after some much loved family members is not normally a bad thing. I don’t personally agree with naming someone after another living person, as I wouldn’t want that kind of pressure that might come with inevitable comparisons, middle names being an exception, nor am I personal fan of using pet names or nicknames as actual names. And yet I can understand that there are some people who may just prefer a diminutive and use that as the legal name, rather than have a formal name and a more established nickname and they may prefer to honour someone alive and that’s their choice to make.

There's another thread? Didn't know

I'm obviously late to the party

I think they picked it for all the wrong reasons and didn't think about how the Queen might feel. I bet the Queen winces every time she hears 'Lilibet', as it will remind her of her lost husband.

I meant to link both pieces of news but pressed 'post' too soon. Do feel free to read the article Ricki.
Law Society and the Daily Telegraph have standards, obviously.

I think you’re having a conversation all in your own there @Roussette

Oh and Julie Burchill has been sacked from the Telegraph for her vile tweet about the baby's name that resulted in the above.

Quite right on this....

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrister-suspended-over-meghan-markle-baby-tweet/5108764.article#.YL97tMSVP7M.twitter

If she will be known as Lili I think it would be better to name her that rather than use a pet name as a full name and then use another pet name.

Of course no one knows how the Queen feels about her nickname.

hmm, I think some on here possibly do. 😉

@Frogcorset my mum was Elizabeth and was known her whole life by a diminutive of it. She hated it and gave us names that were impossible to shorten. Of course no one knows how the Queen feels about her nickname.

I think its nice they've chosen names that mean a lot to them. Whatever they would have chosen someone would complain.

I know two Elizabeths in their 70s and 80s who are generally known by cutesy diminutives given to them by young siblings who couldn’t pronounce Elizabeth — Biff and Betsy. Both of them would be horrified if a grandchild or great-grandchild was given the cutesy nickname as a well-meant ‘tribute’.

I think people are being either amused or bitchy about ‘Lilibet’ because it feeds the narrative that H and M are still massively psychologically bound up with the RF, despite the much discussed departure for ‘private life’ in the US. The kind of people who are interested in that stuff would be disgusted if H and M disappeared into total obscurity.

"*Is it not hilarious that the couple who for months has publicly excoriated the British royal family has named their daughter Lilibet Diana after two of its most famous women?...Yet in naming their daughter after the reigning monarch and the family’s beautiful doomed princess, Harry and Meghan continue to milk the institution they claimed almost destroyed them.

So maybe their daughter’s name is hypocrisy rather than hilarity."*

Err named after Granny and great granny. Shameless!😂

Just had Doris and Granny Lilibet on a zoom call. They're tamping about the name! !!

Oh no sorry. Just imagined it.
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