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

@PresentingPercy She’s really missed an opportunity here hasn’t she? I’m so disappointed with them I thought they were going to be great for the royal family, really progressive and modern.
Why pick such a babyish, foppy name which belongs to the ultimate privileged white woman?

And from an era Meghan doesn’t like and a family Harry isn’t keen on either! Doria has been with Archie a lot. She must mean a lot to them. What about her family names? Yes, I agree. A lost opportunity to express her heritage and honour her mother’s family.

Great thread by the way. Much better than the one on the Royal Family board from 2 days ago

Yes, because it has been allowed to turn into a vitriolic hate fest. There's some awful things being said on here about a mother who has just had a baby.
Vile.

Percy You are sounding very bossy about what names you are expecting a couple you don't know ... to use. They can call their baby what they like. It's not your choice. It's theirs.

Ahhh.... good old DailyFail and Express! So predictable!

I really don't understand why a private nickname which was only spoken by the queen's father, sister and husband was used. I think Elizabeth or Lili would have been a better choice. Happy for Harry that he could honour Diana. A bit sad for Doria she didn't receive a look in for the name.

The name is not going down well in Australia, interesting read which I think summarises the feel down here:

"Is it not hilarious that the couple who for months has publicly excoriated the British royal family has named their daughter Lilibet Diana after two of its most famous women?...Yet in naming their daughter after the reigning monarch and the family’s beautiful doomed princess, Harry and Meghan continue to milk the institution they claimed almost destroyed them.

So maybe their daughter’s name is hypocrisy rather than hilarity."

Just had Doris and Granny Lilibet on a zoom call. They're tamping about the name! !!

Oh no sorry. Just imagined it.
🙄

"*Is it not hilarious that the couple who for months has publicly excoriated the British royal family has named their daughter Lilibet Diana after two of its most famous women?...Yet in naming their daughter after the reigning monarch and the family’s beautiful doomed princess, Harry and Meghan continue to milk the institution they claimed almost destroyed them.

So maybe their daughter’s name is hypocrisy rather than hilarity."*

Err named after Granny and great granny. Shameless!😂

I know two Elizabeths in their 70s and 80s who are generally known by cutesy diminutives given to them by young siblings who couldn’t pronounce Elizabeth — Biff and Betsy. Both of them would be horrified if a grandchild or great-grandchild was given the cutesy nickname as a well-meant ‘tribute’.

I think people are being either amused or bitchy about ‘Lilibet’ because it feeds the narrative that H and M are still massively psychologically bound up with the RF, despite the much discussed departure for ‘private life’ in the US. The kind of people who are interested in that stuff would be disgusted if H and M disappeared into total obscurity.

I think its nice they've chosen names that mean a lot to them. Whatever they would have chosen someone would complain.

@Frogcorset my mum was Elizabeth and was known her whole life by a diminutive of it. She hated it and gave us names that were impossible to shorten. Of course no one knows how the Queen feels about her nickname.

Of course no one knows how the Queen feels about her nickname.

hmm, I think some on here possibly do. 😉

@sunglassesonthetable

Of course no one knows how the Queen feels about her nickname.

hmm, I think some on here possibly do. 😉

Haaaaa yes and don't forget some can read minds and also have a hotline to the palace

If she will be known as Lili I think it would be better to name her that rather than use a pet name as a full name and then use another pet name.

Quite right on this....

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrister-suspended-over-meghan-markle-baby-tweet/5108764.article#.YL97tMSVP7M.twitter

Oh and Julie Burchill has been sacked from the Telegraph for her vile tweet about the baby's name that resulted in the above.

I think you’re having a conversation all in your own there @Roussette

I meant to link both pieces of news but pressed 'post' too soon. Do feel free to read the article Ricki.
Law Society and the Daily Telegraph have standards, obviously.

I think they picked it for all the wrong reasons and didn't think about how the Queen might feel. I bet the Queen winces every time she hears 'Lilibet', as it will remind her of her lost husband.

@Roussette

I meant to link both pieces of news but pressed 'post' too soon. Do feel free to read the article Ricki. Law Society and the Daily Telegraph have standards, obviously.

It’s been all over the other thread for a couple of hours.

There's another thread? Didn't know

I'm obviously late to the party

[quote Roussette]Quite right on this....

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrister-suspended-over-meghan-markle-baby-tweet/5108764.article#.YL97tMSVP7M.twitter[/quote]
Yes, agreed. Judging by some of the sentiments expressed by some on here, you’d think Harry and Meghan have done something rather foul. Naming their daughter after some much loved family members is not normally a bad thing. I don’t personally agree with naming someone after another living person, as I wouldn’t want that kind of pressure that might come with inevitable comparisons, middle names being an exception, nor am I personal fan of using pet names or nicknames as actual names. And yet I can understand that there are some people who may just prefer a diminutive and use that as the legal name, rather than have a formal name and a more established nickname and they may prefer to honour someone alive and that’s their choice to make.

I bet the Queen winces every time she hears 'Lilibet', as it will remind her of her lost husband.

Oh my god dying 😂 😂😂

Must step away from the thread. Must step away.