To be jealous of Jacob Rees Moggs......

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I have failed as a mother.
I gave my children very humdrum and boring names.
They won't get anywhere in life.....they're doomed.
What kind of name is this.....really?????

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The other children's full names are Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius, Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan, Peter Theodore Alphege, Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam and Mary Anne Charlotte Emma Rees-Mogg.

Wow! They can definitely afford the ink for lots of middle names!

I think he chooses amazing names for his children. I wish I had been more imaginative with my four.

Poor Mary didn't get anything fancy did she??!

I love Anselm, even though I'm not entirely sure how you pronounce it.

I am slightly jealous of the confidence and self-assurance.

I also felt sorry for Mary.

Poor Mary didn't get anything fancy did she??!
Named after the Bronte sisters.

My DF claims his family were too poor to give him a middle name. I'm sending him the link to this thread to make him jealous. Maybe he could use Wulfric.I love that.

Ah Gingham I stand corrected - I knew there would be an explanation!

I can't get the picture up, does it say Sixtus?!

JRM is really weird, he is almost like a parody of a posh, privileged person who is completely lacking in any awareness that most people aren't like him, but sadly I think he is for real.

Nothing exceptional about Alfred, Peter, Thomas and Mary.

Anselm and Sixtus are a bit out of the ordinary!

Some of the first names are very plain, good, strong traditional names which the upper class favour.

He's effectively called his 6th child, "no. 6". Poor little thing.

He's a name, not a number!

They're nice Catholic names. Anselm is pronounced Ann-Sell-mmm.

I love Sixtus! I suppose it wouldn't work for a first child or in fact any child barring the sixth

No, the Brontes were Charlotte, Emily and Anne (plus Maria and Elizabeth who died as children).

DH and I are ttc and if we're lucky enough to have a DD, we were thinking first name Mary and middle name Anne. Knowing Rees-Mogg has done this already puts me off slightly.

I love the names of his children, so original but I wouldn't be brave enough myself

He's a parvenu! Can't bear the man, couldn't bear his bloody father, either!

Mary can't be named after the bronte sisters as the middle bronte sister was Emily not emma.

Zampa he's named after pope sixtus (JRM is a Catholic). If the name was to signify the number it would be sextus, not sixtus.

I don't think Sixtus and Sextus (six) are the same name are they?

They have different origins and meanings.

JRM is for real I'm afraid . I live in his constituency. Whenever he is in our town he always wears tweeds and when he was canvassing before the election he had one of his male mini-moggs dressed just like him handing out leaflets (poor kid looked bored out of his brains )

posh names for posh kids

am glad someone like him is in government, am sure he can really understand how the ordinary family lives

I appreciate that the Latin for six is sex, which would be even more inappropriate.

Regardless,, he's still called his 6th child "SIX-tus".

Bold fail ...