Royal baby Albert?

[FindTheLightSwitchDarren]

Apparently Ladbrokes are offering odds of 14-1 that the Royal baby will be named Albert. But won't that make him Prince Albert, like the intimate piercing?

I know the first (?) Prince Albert (Victoria's husband) came before the piercing, but surely the D&DoC won't use it now they know about the piercing.

Checking as I'm expecting a boy before they are and like the name Albert! Not set on it though.

I'm Scottish and in my 50s - I know about the piercing and would expect that most people do.

I think it's more likely that some younger people don't tbh. I blame the internet, if you express an interest in something, it shoves similar stuff at you so you end up down a rabbit hole and get an indepth knowledge of some things all related to a similar interest and no breadth of interests. Plus no-one watches tv anymore so don't come across random stuff in tv programmes.

It's a sad state of affairs really.

Anyway, I'm thinking more Alfred or Arthur or Frederick for a boy.

I think Alice too or an outside bet on Amelia.

I've never heard of the piercing, but I suspect that the royal advisors will not let them use Albert on that basis!

I would probably childishly giggle at 'Price Albert'
I am younger than them and have heard of it so think it can't be assigned to a particular age group. I don't think they will go with it for that reason alone.

Well I’ve never heard of that. Yuk that’s gross.

Prince Albert is pretty common parlance. There is absolutely no way they wouldn't be aware of it, might use it anyway though!

Nah, isn't Albert a bit trendy for them to use? You couldn't put an Albert in those horrendous bloomers.

I'm Irish (although uni and now living in England) and have heard of the piercing.

I have Alexander or Alice in my head for their choices.

They've already used Alexander as a middle name for George I think, so that's a good shout!

I only know this, as it was in an article re potential names for their third baby.

OP,

Here you go:

Mid-40s here, and "a Prince Albert" was definitely being joked about by cheeky school friends 30 yrs ago, so was known about by 14 yr olds in the late 1980s.
Though I suppose Prince Albert of Monaco lives with it!

Aw thanks autumnal! I'll listen to that later with DD.

My granny is Lancastrian and I think the accent really helps with that poem. She is in her mid-nineties now and can't remember it anymore.

I doubt the D & D of C are so sheltered as to not have heard of a Prince Albert. And even if they were I'd hope an advisor would let them know.

It wont be albert.

I think Frederick or James.

Leopold keeps being suggested but he had haemophilia and died in a car crash i think.

The lion and Albert is a fab poem . It used to make my children really laugh. It is printed on the wall of a local pub of the same name. I just thought a prince Albert was type of chain link

I'm actually quite shocked at how many people have never heard of a prince Albert piercing - I'm a total prude in my mid 30s and even I know about them.

My guess is Albert as a middle name.

Even if they haven't heard of a Prince Albert, I really doubt that all of their staff will manage to miss it as well. Definite no from me on that basis

I've heard of the piercing and think they will definitely avoid Albert. Which is a shame as it's a nice name!

No, I don't think so, it's not Prince Albert like the piercing, it's Prince Albert like Queen Victoria's husband.

It won't be James, Edward has a son called that.

I also heard something about James being a bit of a political choice for the royals, so they would avoid? I have no idea what that means though. All I can imagine is that there were a lot of Scottish kings names James, (I think - not a history buff).

OP,
Why James as their baby name choice might raise an eyebrow or two:

"The present incumbents in Buckingham Palace owe their status to the displacement of the last James (James II, brother of Charles II) from the throne in 1688 because of his absolutist inclinations and open Roman Catholicism. For another half a century supporters of his and then his descendants' claim to the throne were called Jacobites, in echo of his name. His son proclaimed himself "James III" and led an armed rebellion. The name seems even less likely as the new baby's father, Prince William, shares a name with the very man (William of Orange) who expelled James II."

[source: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/25/royal-baby-prince-george ]

Isn't kate's brother a James? So maybe they might sneak it in as a second middle name or something, in honour of Uncle James?

Ah that makes sense. Thanks again autumnal!

Suppose a brave move might be to choose James very purposely, as a symbolic statement about religious harmony/ inclusiveness/ it being 2017 etc. etc....but I expect there's hundreds of 'official' reasons why that couldn't/wouldn't happen.

Though they changed the male line of succession ruling as from Princess Charlotte, didn't they, so change to historical precedent once thought set in stone is possible.

Even if it did take them over 300 yrs...

(And very right that Charlotte won't ever now be bumped down the order by any little brother(s), just because she's female and they're male, for crying out loud!).

^ If girl, obviously...