Harry, Meghan and daughter Lilibet: Queen about name "unhappy"

Now it’s finally here, the second child of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. But the daughter’s name causes trouble in the royal family.

London – The UK media are delighted. The name Lilibet – after the nickname of Queen Elizabeth II (95) – for her newborn daughter could be seen as a peace offer from Harry and Meghan to the palace, it is speculated. The Mirror reports that long before he met Meghan, Harry had expressed the wish to his grandmother Queen Elisabeth to name a daughter after her one day. And so the couple living in exile in California had made it clear in their birth announcement that the Queen had stood by the name of godmother: “Lili was named after her great-grandmother, Her Majesty the Queen, whose nickname in the family is Lilibet.”

Lilibet Diana: Was the Queen asked for permission?

The Mirror speaks of the often cited “well-informed circles” who are said to have confirmed that although Harry and Meghan should not have officially asked the Queen for permission, the monarch herself called the naming a “charming idea”. The opinions of experts on the island’s monarchy differ on this matter of national importance. “How delightful” the name is, wrote author Ingrid Seward in the Sun, but added: “But how strange that they have chosen to use such an intimate royal nickname for their daughter when they pretend to be themselves to want to withdraw from royal life. “

Although the queen’s nickname is well known, it is ultimately very personal, according to Seward. It is reported that Elizabeth called herself that as a toddler; later, her sister Margaret and her husband, the recently deceased Prince Philip, also used it. Ingrid Seward is quoted as saying that the Queen was “pleased and a little irritated” about the election.

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Nobility expert: The Queen is “unhappy” about the naming

The journalist Angela Levin, who had conducted several interviews with Harry in the past, was much more critical. “It’s not right, it’s rude,” she said on ITV on Good Morning Britain. “It was a very private nickname used by her husband Prince Philip, who is not long dead”.

Levin also said that Her Majesty should be anything but happy with the name. On the contrary – the Queen was “unhappy” that Harry and Meghan had chosen their “very private” and “special” nickname, which only her husband and father had used, for their second born. Especially since the couple have shown themselves to be so “rude” to the royal family over the past few months.

The child’s other first name is much less discussed: Diana, after Harry’s mother who died in 1997. As often as the prince had mentioned his mother in recent months, the choice of name for those familiar with the royal scene was no surprise. British nobility experts rather pointed out that Meghan’s family was not mentioned.

Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor: Not a princess yet

Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, the baby’s official name, weighed around 3,500 grams at birth and is the Queen’s eleventh great-grandchild – and the first to be born outside of Great Britain. Like her older brother Archie (2), Lilibet, who rises to eighth place in the line of succession, does not yet have a royal title.

Harry and Meghan’s daughter will only be allowed to call herself a princess when her great-grandmother, the Queen, has died and grandfather, Prince Charles, has become King. In Great Britain, titles are only allowed to the grandchildren of reigning monarchs. Whether Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor attaches any importance to such a designation remains to be seen in the future. With the constitution of the Queen, some water can still flow down the Thames towards the sea until then. (Stefan Krieger)

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