Archie Harrison Mountbatten -Windsor

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It's not like you all have not been wondering

I'm tired of this couple and all their playing to the cameras. They weren't today. Meghan lost me completely with the £50k engagement dress but today she was a raw new mum like the rest of us. She couldn't act or put on a front today and I think that endeared her to a lot of people.

Get the fuck over it, they were never going to call the child ‘Spencer James Prince Of The People Diana Reincarnated Lets Hope He’s Not Too Brown For The Post Brexit People Of Britain Windsor’

to be fair im not a fan of multiple middle names but i prefer your suggestion to what they chose.

Too be fair we have had several posters stating that the posh schools in Scotland are full of Archies, maybe that is what all means?
As it happens I know working class Scots called Archie so I think it is pretty classless.

The obsession with the British royal family is something that the rest of us don’t really understand.

Harrison is a surname and, therefore, to my mind, ugly as a Christian name. Not surprising though where Meghan has so much influence.

I'd say Harrison Ford is well gutted you think so.

Where she has "so much influence"? Wan't so long ago people were talking about marrying into the royal family as something akin to having all personality, autonomy and influence removed. I think having a say in how her son is named is actually one area where she has the right amount of influence. She's his mother, not a passive bystander. Or an incubator.

It's a name! Sink estates? Teachers have a view of children with that name? How rude! Archie is a pretty normal name. No it isn't a traditional royal name. But that doesn't mean it's bad.
I'm from a sink estate. My children have quite old fashioned/traditional names. Does that make them better?
Class comes not from your area, but the way you behave. And to say things like sink estate, shows your class. And you have none.

It is a perfectly nice name. I would have considered Archie if I had had boys. Harrison is nice too.

I'm glad that they have broken with tradition and not gone with conventional "royal" names.

Some of the Queen's own children broke new ground in naming their children. Zara, Eugenie and Beatrice were not conventional royal names either, but were a refreshing change without being totally off the wall.

Good on them.

It's just really mediocre and dull. I'm really surprised and disappointed. Like yeah they went for something different which I'd hoped for but Archie? Harrison? So boring!

It's a name! Sink estates? Teachers have a view of children with that name? How rude! Archie is a pretty normal name. No it isn't a traditional royal name. But that doesn't mean it's bad.
I'm from a sink estate. My children have quite old fashioned/traditional names. Does that make them better?
Class comes not from your area, but the way you behave. And to say things like sink estate, shows your class. And you have none

Well said Mary.

I feel like they're just deliberately trying to piss off the royal family with every decision they make, including this one, so I guess that's a positive

Quite American good for her

Archie is not as popular here in the U.S. as it is in the UK. If she was going to give him an American name it would have been something like, Cody, Travis, Wayne, Wade, Bronco Billy, Jimmy the Nose, Baby Face Windsor or Labron.

Archie is standard middle class it's not sink estate at all.
Harrison is working class, or was, not any more it's royal now!

Anyone who works in education will have certain views on the name Archie - and Alfie for that matter. Very much ‘of a certain sector.’
No, they really won't.

She couldn't act or put on a front today and I think that endeared her to a lot of people.

Eh? She was doing her usual false, smug simpering bollocks! Rubbing Harry’s back as he walked away, draping herself over him etc. I think she is just so bloody fake and such an actress (and not a good one). Genuinely surprised when people can’t see through it.

I thought the bit about baby having a sweet temperament was actually naive and honest though - I remember naively thinking that about DS 1/2 days after birth.😂🙈

Anyone who works in education will have certain views on the name Archie - and Alfie for that matter. Very much ‘of a certain sector.’

No absolutely not. That's just not the case. For me, anyway.

Tbh it never occurred to me that Harrison was chosen because he is Harry's son.And it perfectly possible they chose that middle name just because they like it .Irrespective of their fathers name there will be lots of Harrison's out there.
And too many hypocritical MN posts from people who would be incensed to have criticism of their choice of their children's names.And often post about it.

@Complainingagain - why do you think they are deliberately trying to piss off the RF - they are a part of it

Eh? She was doing her usual false, smug simpering bollocks! Rubbing Harry’s back as he walked away, draping herself over him etc. I think she is just so bloody fake and such an actress (and not a good one). Genuinely surprised when people can’t see through it.

Have you ever considered taking up a hobby, @crispysausagerolls?

"Very much ‘of a certain sector.’

That'll be the private sector then, where they have been normal names for the past couple of decades at least.

....Eugenie and Beatrice were not conventional royal names either.....

Disagree, they were the names of Queen Victoria's DDs

Tbh the only Harrison I know is the privately educated son of 2 very high achieving middle class types...

Not sure why it's gettingsuch a hammering- possibly 'too American' for the traditionalists

She was doing her usual false, smug simpering bollocks! Rubbing Harry’s back as he walked away, draping herself over him etc. I think she is just so bloody fake and such an actress (and not a good one). Genuinely surprised when people can’t see through it.

I agree, she comes across as very false

Jesus wept 🤷🏽‍♀️

Have you ever considered taking up a hobby, @crispysausagerolls?

What a witty and original response! Thank you! I was not aware that watching the news and therefore being exposed relatively frequently to clips and photos of Meghan Markle and being able to form an opinion meant that I needed a hobby! bravo!

How can the royal family not be posh they are the top of the hierarchy many seem to want to scale - on this thread.

Archie will not be seen by teaching staff as a ‘certain sector’ in the schools he goes to -unless they do a switch on this - you can have any name and no one blinks an eye.

They haven’t taken the other child’s nickname

This thread is a bit bonkers