And the princess has a name. The daughter of Kate Middleton and Prince William is Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, according to an announcement by Kensington Palace.
“This name is fitting for the princess because it’s historically significant but it’s also personal to the duke and duchess of Cambridge,” Linda Rosenkrantz, co-founder of Nameberry, tells Yahoo Parenting. “Charlotte is the feminine version of Charles, the father of Prince William and is a version of Carole, the name of Kate’s mother. Charlotte is also the middle name of Pippa Middleton, Kate’s sister.”What’s more, Elizabeth is the name of the current Queen of England and Prince William’s grandmother. And Diana — an unexpected choice given Prince William’s late mother’s rocky history with the royal family — is a beautiful tribute.
For months leading up to the birth, the Internet was abuzz with baby name predictions. British bookmakers William Hill were seeing pink and placing odds that the child would be named Alice at 4/1. “As it stands, over 70 percent of William Hill customers believe the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will have a baby girl, with Alice the current favorite name ahead of Elizabeth which is 9/2,” spokesman Rupert Adams told People in March. A fitting choice, as Alice was also the name of Queen Victoria’s second daughter (who breastfed her baby — a shocking act at the time) and the name of Queen Elizabeth II’s aunt Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester who died in 2014 at age 102, according to Nameberry.
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