Archie Harrison Mountbatten -Windsor

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It's not like you all have not been wondering

Of all the names to choose from, absolutely awful. Real negative connotations with both.

I like the name, pics of the baby are beautiful, Mum and Dad look over the moon. I'm not a royalist by a long stretch but don't understand how anyone can get snarky about a much wanted new life arriving into the world.

Harrison means 'Son of Harry'.

Quite like Archie. Sounds Royal, but not too Royal.

Harrison is on old English name. It’s a derivative of Henry, Harold etc. My son is 32 and I hadn’t heard of another Harrison at the time when I named him apart from Harrison Ford but now it’s so common!

Archie ?

As in Archie Bunker ?

Yawn 🙄

It's not very posh is it?

It would be fun to spread the idea that he's named after Prince Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck ...

I'm surprised at Harrison. Is there a reason for it?

Son of Harry. Harry's son.

Their baby their choice. It is different to what I was expecting but it's a nice name.
As a MNetter pointed out on another thread when Zara Tindall (Phillips) was born 1981 there were probably quite a few people frothing that Zara wasn't a royal name.

@cptartapp why does it have negative connotations?

I quite like Archie.

My dog is called Archie

Wow, would never have guessed that, for sure. It's quite nice

A nickname first name, rather scandalous. Good for them for choosing something a bit unexpected rather than conforming though.

@SemperIdem you are correct, at least for the foreseeable anyway. Until his grandfather becomes king baby Archie is not a prince. Once his grandfather ascends the throne however he will be entitled to take Prince and HRH titles.

Awful

He is the son of Harry to be fair.
My gf was an Archie, I rather like this royal have a more working class set of names.

Harrison as in Harry's son? if so it's a bit naff
Word of advice, if you ever find yourself in Iceland (the country not the frozen goods store), please don’t repeat that.

Jeez people can be so vile. Nice to have a non traditional name but whatever they had called him people would have slagged them off. Hopefully they like it.

naff for Britain I mean, obviously

Harrison = Harry's son?

They're far away from the succession to call him whatever they like. Princess Anne broke new ground when she called her daughter Zara.

He doesn't have to be a prince if they don't want him to be, either.

I've nothing against Archie compared with some of the offerings on the Baby names board.

Not so hot on Victorian/Edwardian royal history, but wasn't Archie a pet name in those times ? Although Google only seems to think "Archie Queen Victoria" refers to Archie Mitchell - another exhibit in my "how shit is google" prosecution case.

@semperldem you got that right, because he's not a Prince.

Very surprised! Prefer Alfie though