Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor

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Harry and Megan have just announced their new baby's name.

What's everyone's thoughts?

I think it's alright as a nickname, or shortened version of a name, but silly as an official name, same as Archie.

Having my post deleted for calling out a poster abusing and insulting others? Really MN?

@Getyourarseofffthequattro, I often wonder what it is to be regal or royal. When I consider the history of the royal family, to be royal seems like something even the so-called royals should be ashamed of.

Beheading, murdering, adulterous, racist, inbreeding, lazy, tax payer funded, etc. So do tell, what aspects of royalty should we plebs aspire to?

I think it’s rather a good thing not to be royal.

@oakleaffy

Predictable names. Not very big for the size of that humongous bump though.

Don't be so bloody ridiculous!

Lilibet IS a made up name specifically in this context. Infant princess Elizabeth coined it. That’s the whole point of it being a cute nickname. It might also exist as a name of its own but the point of it is the story that she was in able to say her own name because she was tiny at the time so it is a cute and private family story/name.

It might have already been said, but people believe that Charlotte was to honour both Carole & Charles (as well as being Pippa’s middle name), Elizabeth was to honour the Queen and is Carole’s middle name and Diana was in to honour Princess Diana.

@BalloonSlayer

I do wish the Royals would put Meghan first in their congratulations tweets. She's the one who had the baby!

I would imagine she's not their favourite person and they would rather not acknowledge her at all but have to be civil.

Lilibet is NOT a made up name. It's well known in the US. It's been said before on this thread.

@Coolandclamy exactly. Even if everything said about H&M were true it doesn't make them any worse then the rest.

@thecognoscenti

I think it's a bit too personal. Like, here's a reminder that we're related to the Queen. Don't forget that! Without that connection, they'd be a middling soap actress and an ex-squaddie. Lily is nice and they could just have gone with that, but no, got to crowbar the royal reference in there.

This.

It looks like they are trying too hard. At least the child may have a story to fall back on for the rest of her life.
Anyways they live in California among Hollywood royalty and it's a different world out there. What they think is what really counts!

Cute name.
But highly highly inappropriate given that they've spent the past few months throwing grenades into the RF while Philip was dying 😖

@Roussette allow the Brits to convulse at someone giving their child a name. If it’s not common in little England then it doesn’t count. How dear someone choose to give their child a name without first checking with some sections of the British population? They won’t stand for it. It is very unroyal and unregal and something about Meghan and Harry being responsible for Covid and the destruction of the world or some other crime not yet imagined.

@DeeleysMum

I like it. At times I didn't have the best relationship with my nan but my daughter was named after her because I loved the bones of my nan as I sure Harry does the Queen.

I really think there are some utterly joyless people in the world who will find sadness and pain in anything. Probably the same people spouting 'be kind'.

At the end of the day, it's their business.

they found sadness in everything and attacked the RF in everyway in front of the whole wide world. they werent kind then.

@Andylion

To me it feels a bit of encroached to use someone else's pet name as a given name especially when you've been publicly at odds with that person's way of life and critical of the establishment they've dedicated their whole life to.

Perhaps they asked HMQ if she minded, otherwise it does seem a bit presumptuous. It also seems to indicate the intimacy of being in the inner circle of the RF, when they have been so critical of it.

I have not expressed this well at all.

They probably asked. And then the royal household told them it was not the RH's business to opine. Why would they?

'allow the Brits to convulse at someone giving their child a name. If it’s not common in little England '

It is the name of the head of an organisation they have publicly criticised. It just seems a bit of an odd choice. Oprah would've been more apt tbh.

@Roussette

OMG, there would be a thread filling even quicker than this one if they had called them Archie and Lili Sussex!

There would be an outcry like never before!

Why would there? It would be logical, surely?

@KevinTheGoat

38 pages of people wanking about a pair of strangers calling their baby after the dad's dead grandma. Why are so many of you angry about it? Does it really matter?

This

@Coolandclamy

Ain't that the truth!

Let's just say that the Queen was delighted with the name. Would there be a thread?

Unfortunately, yes. Because there's criticism about the name Diana (how dare they, Charlotte has it as a middle name). And it's awful that they have used the surname Mounbatten-Windsor. (the fact it's a surname he has to use as it's that or 'Sussex'... seems to be irrelevant to some posters on here!)
You couldn't make it up!

Why would there? It would be logical, surely?

Because of the hate directed at them, that's why.

It's been covered very extensively why it is Mounbatten Windsor back up the thread.

It was the Queen’s pet name when she was little. Princess Margaret said it first as she couldn’t manage Elizabeth as a toddler. It is very much a family name. I’m not sure it is appropriate for this baby but Lili is sweet and that is lovely.

@JaniieJones, bear this is mind: The Queen hasn’t complained. Why are you losing sleep over this? Do you really know what the relationship is between the Queen and Harry? The little that has been revealed seems to suggest they are close. But who knows.

One thing I can bet on; if the Queen had to choose between you and her grandson and her great granddaughter, I’m pretty sure she would tell you to go to hell.

So worry about your family and let these royal worry about theirs. Stop allowing yourself to be led by the media. You really know nothing about these people and the true nature of their relationships. Spend your energy in yours.

Maybe they originally went for Navy-Lee but got cold feet when the thread ended up in the Mirror?