According to the BBC, palace sources claim that Queen Elizabeth had no idea that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry planned to use her nickname for their newborn daughter
A nice thing to name the baby after Grandma, no? Well … Photo: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images It really does feel like people will go to astounding lengths in order to simply be mad sometimes, no? Today I am thinking specifically about the controversy apparently building around a newborn baby, named in a tribute to her great-grandmother, a choice some people have taken as an insult rather than a compliment. Like I said, baffling stuff.
On Wednesday, BBC reported that the choice of names came as a surprise to the queen, who had no idea the couple planned to use her nickname until it had already happened. Her father, King George VI, gave her the moniker when she was still too young to pronounce her name, and only close family members — the late Prince Philip, for example — have ever used it.
This jells with the initial birth announcement by the Sunday Times, which noted that “it is understood that the Queen was informed by the duke that her 11th great-grandchild would be named after her.” It jells with what palace sources told the Telegraph, which is that the queen was “aware” of the name plan beforehand. It jells with People’s report that the baby had a video call with her namesake as soon as she got home from the hospital.
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