Archie Harrison Mountbatten -Windsor

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It's not like you all have not been wondering

The consensus on MN is usually that everyone names their baby as they wish and even family members are out of line if they make any comment. Nasty thread this, full of judgy snobs. Lovely new baby, likeable parents.

oh well, a decent guess!

I thought the whole point of being royal was that you could have a name like Charles Philip Arthur George, not Archie Harrison, which is what you'd find about 12 of on any given day in any maternity ward up and down the country. It's just very normal and dull un-royal and whispers a bit common ya know?

Learning a lot about fellow mumsnetters here.

Slithery would have been lovely! 😂

Kate and William chose much nicer names

I think my DC's names are nicer than their cousins'... It's almost like different people have different tastes, even when they do have close relatives in common.

(And there's nothing wrong with my DN's names. They're just not, in my opinion, as nice as my DC's. I'm sure their parents think similarly)

Archie is nice enough, and I don't think it unsuitable personally. Lots of little working class Georges when George was born, too. Just less precedent amongst the royals.

Would it have been Rowsie Mai for a girl?

I've just read online that he won't have a royal title at all because they want him to be a private citizen.

That actually makes me like them more, as I was sure MM would be all about grabbing a title for her child.

My daughter's name is apparently "chavvy" too according to Mnet. It's a perfectly ordinary Scottish name that isn't hugely common or have any class connotations in Scotland (where we are).
This thread just demonstrates the level of batshittery that exists on Mnet when it comes to the class system.

Luckily the truly posh get to name their kids whatever the fuck they like and never have to worry that they'll be impacted by the judgement of the kind of people who just can't believe that a royal child could be called Archie.

This thread just demonstrates the level of batshittery that exists on Mnet when it comes to the class system

Ironically those that blather on about class show a marked lack thereof.

Dreadful, sounds like an actor from Eastenders

I know a lot of dogs called Archie. I am with the pp who hates pet names used as first names, and surnames used as first names, so i don’t like either.
Gorgeous little baby though, whatever he is called.

Mountbatten-Windsor is a nod to both Prince Phillip and the Queen.

The Harrison bit is annoying me because he's Henry's son, not Harry's.

not Archie Harrison, which is what you'd find about 12 of on any given day in any maternity ward up and down the country

I know 2 little Georges born on the same day - the day after DS, who isn't a George, but it was on the shortlist - in the same hospital. Not exactly unheard of either...

Also, "Louis Arthur Charles" - one of his brother's middle names is Louis, and his sister is called Charlotte. Where's the originality there, if we're talking such?

Absolutely dying at all the most middle of middle class posters trying to pretend they’re posher than the Windsors.

“Oh they’re not that posh you know!”

Yeah, did you read that on here 😂

My point was that it's not very posh and if you're royal then you're supposed to be bloody posh!

One of my relatives is a George and his a lovely kid. My dads brother was also a George , born in 1908.
We're all normal working class people from council estates. I don't get name snobbery-at all. You've got to name them something!

At least it wasn't Alfie or Oliver. Yuck.

Archie is okay, Harrison is lovely.

I was going to say I can’t imagine anyone bet on Archie, but someone did and won £18k

@Nearlythere1 oi Dundee is Scotand’s sunniest City!😂

I think she meant The Ferry 😉

People always say they’re not that posh on here, not the real deal etc. Funny

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Harrison apparently means 'son of harry'

18 k ! Gosh, I wished I'd researched the baby name board.
I bet it was someone ' in the know' who won that money!

When you’re really posh you don’t have to obey MN’s weird rules (formed from a combo of Jilly Cooper and Midsomer Murders) of How To Be Posh.

Which are mostly outdated bollocks (posh people don’t drive battered volvos either).