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

I think Lilibet is too nicknamey and feels a bit of an odd choice with the way they have openly talked about the rf. It makes me think of The Crown(before watching it I had no idea about it being the queens nickname). Lily would have been nicer imo, still a nod to queen of that is what they wanted but without directly using the nickname.

Lili is nice, but I'd prefer Lily.

I find Lilibet as a given name to be a bit incongruous with a couple who've been airing their family gripes to anyone who'll listen, accused one family of being racist, and made a public departure from a family they've deemed harmful.

The cynic is me wonders if it's all about keeping the royal links as without that they're just a pair of celebrities who want a platform to talk about themselves and lecture the rest of us.

Disclaimer- I don’t have any strong feelings about H&M one way or the other.

Bloody dreadful name. Imagine being a woman in her mid-thirties answering to Lilibet. It’s everything I hate in a name- twee, babyish, a nickname and doesn’t suit anyone over the age of four.

Plus Doria is an absolutely fabulous name which would have worked really well with Diana.

I do hope though that they’re having a chilled out few days with the new addition without M having to parade herself and her new born around in front of a load of photographers whilst still wearing super-duper maternity pads.

@Twizbe

A few weeks back there was a poster on here asking about Lilibet for a girls name - I wonder ....

Personally I don't like it as it's a nickname not a full name, but I think the sentiment is sweet.

But tbf I don't like Archie either so I obviously have a different taste in names.

This

Beautiful x

Lilibet sounds really hard and unpleasant to my ear. Just Lily would have been much better.

I don't mind the name at all but I find the whole situation a bit of a head fuck. Harry talks about his Dad's failings as a parent and attributes them to his upbringing by his Mum, the Queen.

Naming your child after your Gran's childhood nickname is very personal and intimate.

I am genuinely clueless as to what's going on.

@TerribleCustomerCervix

Disclaimer- I don’t have any strong feelings about H&M one way or the other.

Bloody dreadful name. Imagine being a woman in her mid-thirties answering to Lilibet. It’s everything I hate in a name- twee, babyish, a nickname and doesn’t suit anyone over the age of four.

Plus Doria is an absolutely fabulous name which would have worked really well with Diana.

I do hope though that they’re having a chilled out few days with the new addition without M having to parade herself and her new born around in front of a load of photographers whilst still wearing super-duper maternity pads.

Agree with most of this - I don’t think Doria Diana sounds good but they’re both great names on their own.

Lilibet isn’t even a name FFS, however I find Archie Harrison ridiculous too so I suppose I prefer more traditional royal names, I love the name Louis for example.

I don't mind the name either way really. It's a cute tribute.
I just wish the baby a very happy and healthy life

I don't like nicknames as names personally, rather have the option of a proper name should the child wish to use it, but each to their own.

Aren't they only acknowledging Harry's side of the family?

I'm just 🥴 at the person upthread that thinks Doria Diana would 'have worked really well' have you been sniffing glue??

The tweets from the RF are very .. um... regal.

Trying to worm themselves back into the favour of the Royal Family no doubt

@TellerTuesday

I'm just 🥴 at the person upthread that thinks Doria Diana would 'have worked really well' have you been sniffing glue??

Well it’s about a million times better than Lilibet if you’re hard pressed on going for a family name!

Considering the queen allegedly hates the name lilibet (I dont know her personally so im only going off longstanding press rumours) its probably not what I would have gone with plus it was supposed to mean Elizabeth so they have essentially named her Elizabeth Diana which is Charlottes middle name......its not what I would have done however im not them

Lily is a nice name in its own right though

Obviously Charlotte and new baby have the same grandmother and great-grandmother so it's not like they've stolen Charlotte's middle names. It's not really something you put dibs on.

I've popped my head around the door of some of the other threads on this subject and oh my word, so many people act as though they know these people and are themselves part of these families. So emotionally involved in it all, to an unnerving degree.

Lilibet (Lili) is a bit cutesy to me, so works well with similar Archie imo. Whereas Diana is classical and elegant so I think the two names together makes a nice complementary combo.

However due to the feud, the name as a whole does seem a bit "we are still Royal, honest" of her parents - because the strong associations of both names. Hopefully that will be forgotten in a short time as people just associate them with the child instead.

If they wanted to use family names, I do think "Diana Lilibet/Elizabeth Doria" would have been even nicer - but with the nn Annie rather than Di as that's too associated with Harry's Mum. Annie and Archie would be a lovely sibset (I don't think Princess Anne has ever been called/known as Annie?).

@Serpenta

Obviously Charlotte and new baby have the same grandmother and great-grandmother so it's not like they've stolen Charlotte's middle names. It's not really something you put dibs on.

No but it is a bit unusual in familys to name them the same we named our son after two of his great grandads who had passed so paternal and maternal were represented then his stepbrother had a child and switched the names around and named his son the same so in effect he named his son after my grandfather and his stepmother first husbands father it was a bit weird he literally never met those people

I just can’t imagine being an adult and introducing myself as Lilibet… if they liked Lili i think just call her Lili, not a baby sounding nickname as her full name.

So I think Archie and Lili really match but am a bit perplexed at the Lilibet thing.

Even the whole confusing family dynamic playing out very publicly, WHY do they always have to honour the Queen in the names? Lena Tindell has Elizabeth for a middle name too and so has Isla Phillips (also the great grand daughters of the Queen) so it’s hardly just Princess Charlotte. I get that people like to honour relatives and that’s an even bigger thing in the RF but even so. I’m not sure how touched the Queen would be vs probably expected Elizabeth and Diana to both be in there anyway because they all do it?

I don’t know if the Queen is called Lilibet more than we know maybe but for me it seems almost uncomfortably close (the use of the nickname rather than the formal name). My children have half ridiculous / twee nicknames like that too and if a future grandchild or great grandchild used the twee made-up nickname as a real name I actually don’t think I’d be that pleased. It would be too personal and a bit odd, like over stepping..?

They’re also such a stuffy family that I find the use of Lilibet over Elizabeth a hard one to imagine. I can’t imagine Harry ever called his grandmother that.

Apparently Lilibet is a name (in US, Australia, Germany, even here), as someone has repeatedly said over on the utter ranting, raging bin fire taking place on a thread elsewhere. It's a wonder it's not been taken down.

Just seems a bit embarrassing and try hard to me what with all the public slagging off they've been doing. Lily would have worked better

@Ragoo

After all the negative publicity they've caused and the way in which they spoke about the royal family of late, I think is massively disrespectful and they've got quite a cheek actually.

Agree with this.

Such CF to take and use the queen's affectionately remembered childhood nickname to imbue their children with an aura of royalty for later monetization.

I mean, if they really wanted to kiss the Queen’s arse and try and get back in the good books after all they’ve put her and the rest of the family through pay tribute to the Queen, they could have used Elizabeth. Or Lili.

Lilibet as a nickname is fine, but as a first name is just daft.

Also my autocorrect keeps trying to change it to Lilienthal. I don’t even know what that means.

Archie and Lili work well though, and it’s sweet that they’ve named them for their grandmother and great grandmother.

Surprised they didn’t include Doria or one of Meghan’s other relatives though, given that they’ve said they’re stopping at 2 so they won’t have another opportunity.