Tudor for a boy

[TwoBigNorks]

What do you think of this name I cam across last week?

Tudor

I hate it.

no

a BIG FAT NO.

It's a Welsh name pron. (IIRC) something like Tidder. (Welsh MNers will probably come on and correct me now...) You'd get a lot of comments about Henry VIII - imagine the father of the bride speech on his wedding day...

Goes nicely with Rose as a second name.

I knew a man called Tudor once. He was an actor/director, rather effeminate, bit of a luvvie, and the name actually suited him down to the ground.

Not sure that's the effect you'd be looking for though.

Not far off Edam.
It's sort of Tiddir.
I like it Welsh style not English though as instantly think of Ten Pole Tudor.

And what's wrong with Swords of a Thousand Men, exactly, MD?

Awful lol

Nowt.
I bloody love it actually. Have feeling could be a good gym song for iPod.

Swords of a thousand men is a top tune!

I met Ed Tudor Pole once. Top man but you can see the results of years of sex, drugs and rock and roll...

Really??
Isn't he actually real life nobility or summat? Ah, reminds me of being in boarding schools, playing singles on the Dansetter in the rec.

What do I think?

thoughtless parents
poor kid

I think he's a public school boy and if Tudor Pole really is his surname then he probably is descended from yer genuine aristrocrats - the Poles were a jolly important family in the 16th century (I had a thing about the Tudors during my teenage years).

Ooh me too. History A level. What I don't know about Tudors is noone's business. perkin Warbeck?? Bring him on!!

Also did History 'A' but sadly there was no Tudor option. So I did the Stuarts - was as close as I could get.

Hated The Other Boleyn Girl, btw. Horrible biased nonsense.

I quite like it.

But then I have Welsh Hankerings.

DH does a disgusted little cough whenever I mention the name Taliesin.

Probably for the best.

Taliesin is a lovely name.

Was it crap? Though it would have been.

no

what next, Plantagenet?

Ooh, I really like Taliesin. Would be a tad tricky as we live in England, though (and both dh and I are English, really - our fathers are Welsh). So I gave ds a Welsh name that is easy for English people to deal with.

Yup, the book was bad and the film was ten times worse. Thought it might at least look interesting as a visual spectacle but no.

I know of two Tudor's. One who is in his 60's and one who is about 2.

It always sounds ike a toffs name to me.