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Autumn Philips calls baby Savannah

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LexieB · 02/01/2011 20:14

Savannah

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aPixieInMyCaramelLatte · 03/01/2011 13:11

Good name, I've lived with it for 24yrs and had nothing but positive comments when I meet new people.

StewieGriffinsMom · 03/01/2011 13:13

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expatinscotland · 03/01/2011 13:15

I went out with a guy named Nevada. Yep, his real name, on his driver's license and everything. YY, Montana et al. I lived in Boulder for years Wink.

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aPixieInMyCaramelLatte · 03/01/2011 13:47

stewie why do you say the name Savannah is 'common'?

I don't know any others in RL apart from me and I can tell you that neither me or my mum are common....

Not always anyway Grin

StewieGriffinsMom · 03/01/2011 13:55

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SlightlyTubbyHali · 03/01/2011 14:00

Pixie Savannah is ranked 43rd most popular in Canada where Autumn Phillips is from, so she hasn't picked a rare name, even if it is still relatively new in the UK (and I think it is more popular still in the US).

aPixieInMyCaramelLatte · 03/01/2011 14:08

Oh I see, Sorry. Blush

onimolap · 03/01/2011 14:24

It's been around in UK since 1990s (admitting to lowbrow tastes, there was one in a Wendy Holden book).

ValiumTinselton · 03/01/2011 14:53

There was one in a Pat Conroy book called The Prince of Tides. It was a great book!!! But the Savannah in it had been abused as a child and suffered from depression so,,, Well, so nothing. But that's a bit of an association for me.

ValiumTinselton · 03/01/2011 14:55

Sienna Miller's sister is called Savannah too. They're English. Their parents were a bit ahead of the curve there.

flaine · 03/01/2011 15:59

math Getting back to Prince Phillips mother.

Many years ago I was on a plane to Athens and on board were some of Prince Phillips sisters.

They were escorting their mothers body for
reburial somewhere in Greece. Her remains were in the hold - having been exhumed from somewhere in England (I guess)

expatinscotland · 03/01/2011 16:03

'Sienna Miller's sister is called Savannah too. They're English. Their parents were a bit ahead of the curve there.'

Sienna Miller's father is American. Sienna was born in NYC to an American father and and a South African mother.

Jerry Springer, however, was born in London to German immigrant parents and lived there till he was 5 years old. Useless fact of the day Wink.

Sienna is American. Jerry is English :o.

Northernlebkuchen · 03/01/2011 20:17

Valium - I did a history degree but mostly I just love it Smile Not my profession but I was thinking just today about that......

The mutated gene is the best theory. It can and does happen. The other possibility is that they'd all been carrying it for a while and nothing had happened to pop up - which is surely unlikely or that Victoria's father wasn't the Duke of Kent after all but some random haemophiliac who just happened to have an affair with the Duchess of Kent at the relevant point Hmm.

Regarding Princess Alice - one of her daughters (Duke of Edinburgh's sister) was killed in an air accident. She was married to the Grand Duke of Hesse - the grandson of Queen Victoria's daughter Alice, the nephew of the last Tsarina. She herself was the great-grandaughter of Alice - so sort of cousins. She was flying with her husband, mil and two sons to Britain for her bil's wedding when the plane crashed and all were killed. She was pregnant as well. The only survivor of the family was the baby who had been left at home - and who died a couple of years later. Really apalling tragedy.

expatinscotland · 03/01/2011 20:20

It's also a very lovely city to visit in the US state of Georgia, with excellent service, food and people.

Just don't go in summer, it is hot and humid as all hell.

Lilka · 03/01/2011 20:34

I like Savannah. Very pretty, i like most names with 'Anna' in them. Also learned a lot of very useless interesting facts! Why does the line of succession go on to over 1700 names? It seems totally unecessary Confused

Lilka · 03/01/2011 20:38

ps. I second don't visit Georgia in summer. However, lots of great things about it. Some of the house prices - seriously, I've seen big 5 bed houses with several bathrooms with big gardens for under $150,000. ITS NOT FAIR

expatinscotland · 03/01/2011 20:40

They do get hurricanes, though, which really, really, truly suck.

But on the whole, yes, a lovely city.

Don't know how most people make a living there, though.

FellatioNelson · 03/01/2011 21:36

neck thoroughly wound in for expat.

NewYearNewSolo · 04/01/2011 00:11

Northern, you should write a book ~ seriously! I'd buy it. I love history and I do love the RF, but confess to not knowing very much about them...know a bit more now though. Still don't lke Savannah though. Grin

ivykaty44 · 04/01/2011 21:53

Northern - who was the lad that had special needs and kept away from the rest of the family and lived in a cottage in the grounds of one of the estate Houses? He was born aroudn the end of the 19th c or begining of 20c

Tarantella · 04/01/2011 22:02

Prince John

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