Lilibet Diana — what do we think?

[BabyBabyOh]

Harry and Megan have announced the birth of their little girl. Thoughts on the name?

Congratulations to them

@Scramblinghealingdreaming Queen of England 🙄

@CokeDrinker For someone who is all preachy about “common decency” you are coming across as very judgy and mean spirited

@CokeDrinker

Ignorant and vicious as well as sexist comments on here are exactly why they fled the UK. Many internalised misogynists on this thread won't be happy until she (or he) goes the way of Caroline Flack. You people should be absolutely and thoroughly disgusted and ashamed of yourself, but you'd have to have self awareness, a heart and a soul for that.

harry may be doing all the talking now whilst shes gone silent , but she did her fair share whilst on oprah , you have dragged up caroline flack in previous threads before and its throughly sad that you feel the need to bring her into this , her suicide had its own unique circumstances as you well know and we all now so please stop stooping so low to make your point . harry and meghan are never going to be in that poor girls position as speaking of self awareness they lack it totally . and because some of us have a negative opinion of them and their actions does not mean we wish them to be dead , please grow up

Millions of people have not been happy about their public way Harry has talked about his family in a negative way and in particular parenting skills. Meghan has had her long interview and lied about a secret marriage and several other things. The are, nonetheless, still part of the RF and are very much putting themselves in the public domain whilst saying they want privacy. No doubt there wont be pictures of the baby and I’d be more than happy, personally, if they shut up and disappeared from public view instead of criticising and lecturing. It’s a childish name used by a childish couple calculating how to get attention. And it worked.

@PresentingPercy

Millions of people have not been happy about their public way Harry has talked about his family in a negative way and in particular parenting skills. Meghan has had her long interview and lied about a secret marriage and several other things. The are, nonetheless, still part of the RF and are very much putting themselves in the public domain whilst saying they want privacy. No doubt there wont be pictures of the baby and I’d be more than happy, personally, if they shut up and disappeared from public view instead of criticising and lecturing. It’s a childish name used by a childish couple calculating how to get attention. And it worked.

@PresentingPercy couldn't agree more with this.

Meghan has had her long interview and lied about a secret marriage

So when did they officially get married? Before the day we all saw or not?

@PresentingPercy

Millions of people have not been happy about their public way Harry has talked about his family in a negative way and in particular parenting skills. Meghan has had her long interview and lied about a secret marriage and several other things. The are, nonetheless, still part of the RF and are very much putting themselves in the public domain whilst saying they want privacy. No doubt there wont be pictures of the baby and I’d be more than happy, personally, if they shut up and disappeared from public view instead of criticising and lecturing. It’s a childish name used by a childish couple calculating how to get attention. And it worked.

i agree also , its strange , like any attention no matter if its negative is better than none , they are like two children who will behave badly to get noticed by an inattentive parent even if that behaviour lands them in trouble and had the opposite long term effect of what the child actually wanted

@LynetteScavo

Meghan has had her long interview and lied about a secret marriage

So when did they officially get married? Before the day we all saw or not?

In the big ceremony at Windsor (that some of us successfully avoided).

There was no secret marriage.

I don’t understand the comparisons between Caroline Flack and H & M. I believe Caroline was already struggling and the thought of the publicity of the trial was just too much for her. The issue with her case IMHO is 1)should have faced charges in the first place and 2) should those accused be allowed to remain anonymous until found guilty. It’s very different to H & M who keep popping up to share something. They don’t want privacy, they want to be in the public eye on their terms.

Not the 'secret marriage' nonsense again.

@LynetteScavo
Meghan said the Archbishop of Canterbury married them in a private ceremony before the big one! He then had to say that wasn’t a marriage. It’s been well publicised.

I used the secret marriage as an example of Meghan not telling the truth. It’s exactly that and it’s not nonsense. If you say something to Oprah, at least be truthful. Or preferably shut up.

I assumed Meghan meant they had a small unofficial ceremony before the big spectacle. Fair enough. In their eyes that was their wedding rather than the one for the public. It's hardly a big deal

The Independent has a column running that makes the point that calling the baby Lilibet Diana pretty much guarantees the child will attract more scrutiny, attention and publicity, not less.

Yes she meant a small unofficial ceremony.
All those claiming it was a wedding rehearsal are obviously talking nonsense. Wedding rehearsals involve others such as bridesmaids and take place in the cathedral itself. I have taken part of wedding rehearsals in a cathedral. It was about where everyone stood and walked.

The Independent has a column running that makes the point that calling the baby Lilibet Diana pretty much guarantees the child will attract more scrutiny, attention and publicity, not less.

Absolutely, particularly Lilibet as I think people were already expecting the name Diana to be in there somewhere.

If they’d announced her name was Lily Diana it would barely have made a ripple in the news.

@antsy

Yes she meant a small unofficial ceremony. All those claiming it was a wedding rehearsal are obviously talking nonsense. Wedding rehearsals involve others such as bridesmaids and take place in the cathedral itself. I have taken part of wedding rehearsals in a cathedral. It was about where everyone stood and walked.

TBF, you don’t have the official franchise to interpret her remarks and tell us what “she meant”. It might seem obvious by process of deduction, but is she is going to say inaccurate things, everyone is going to interpret it differently, according to their grasp of what is possible.

H & M do both seem to have this impressionistic approach to verbal communication that leads to misunderstandings.

@Marmaladeagain but they are part of the Royal Family. Nothing can change that. Just as I am always part of the extended antsy family even if I never spoke to them again.
The Queen is Lilibet's grandmother. William is her Uncle.

The Queen is Lilibet's grandmother.

GREAT grandmother.

Oops! Of course, she is.

Hey antsy - you might want to tell Meghan's family that - they're part of Meghan's family and can't change that. Yes you can change it.

If you behave so that people no longer trust you, it changes.

It has changed. Relationships are a two way street. Meghan's family were banished it is rather hypocritical to sell stories about Harry's family and expect to be met with open arms. Surely, in M's book - it would be natural for the RF to now never, ever speak to them again. Except they know the RF are not in a position to defend themselves. Nice and brave behaviour.

The thing is that if they had simply decided on the name Lily Diana they would have been congratulated and life would move on swiftly as it does.

But no they have to go one step further and name their daughter with the very personal nickname given to the Queen from those closest to her. Even without all the drama of Oprah etc, etc, I would think this inappropriate. But given all the drama they have created once again it just smacks of creating more drama and attention. They are just completely tone deaf.

Sadly these two just bring on all the negative comments upon themselves and it all could have been so different.