White Queen baby names...

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Trills · 10/07/2013 08:35

If it's a girl..
Margaret
Anne
Elizabeth

If it's a boy...
Henry
Richard
George
Edward

Those are the only choices.

No wonder she keeps (in the books) having to say "my Grey son Richard", as opposed to her other son Richard, or her brother-in-law Richard, or her enemy/uncle-of-husband Richard.

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Trills · 10/07/2013 08:36

Seriously - as a mother with 5 sons, would you call 2 of them by the same name? Even if they were by different fathers?

(a few years later and in Hilary Mantel's Tudor books every bloody person is called Thomas - they even comment on it within the book).

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noblegiraffe · 10/07/2013 08:38

She was screwed having so many children.

Her brother was called Anthony wasn't he? I bet her mum would have got sneery remarks on medieval MN for that. "There's never going to be a King Anthony, you're limiting his life choices you know".

janeyjampot · 10/07/2013 08:39

Probably just shows how little say she had in the matter - presumably her first family didn't really count to her second husband...

moggle · 10/07/2013 11:46

I was reading this
voices.yahoo.com/so-many-women-so-few-names-tudor-womens-names-2108898.html
the other day and it says that 73% of girls born at court in Tudor times were named Katherine, Anne, Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, Joan, Margaret, Alice, Clemence, and Agnes. Apparently they named them after someone "higher up" to curry favour and maybe find kiddo a place in their household...

Turniptwirl · 10/07/2013 15:38

She had Richard and Thonas Grey then Elizabeth, Mary, Cecily,

Turniptwirl · 10/07/2013 15:39

Edward, Margaret, Richard, Anne, George, Catherine and Bridget.

HorryIsUpduffed · 10/07/2013 15:46

Father names the baby though. He doesn't give a shit about his stepsons' names.

I'm expecting a Nov baby who will have a WQ name