Naming the Monarch

[rickg]

I think King Richard has a nice ring to it......

 

[Deleted member 1418]

Prince Albert........

 

[PIng]

Big Phil, or maybe Lefty.

 

[HotDogAssassin]

It's just been announced - George Alexander Louis

 

[Doon frae Troon]

It's just been announced - George Alexander Louis

Safe bet with the Scots then........a bit boring......probably be called Geordie up here.

 

[Yerman]

So for the price of a silver spoon Prince George will have a cossetted life laid out before him from birth to death free of want, fear, hunger, failure, choice or ambition, I pity the sprog.

 

[williamalex1]

I'm confused

Oh no, I get it, you're doing that tedious 'the Royal family are all German' thing due to events a few hundred years ago; and obviously the fact that the child will have a Greek born great grandfather.

Nine nine, nein nein.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

So for the price of a silver spoon Prince George will have a cossetted life laid out before him from birth to death free of want, fear, hunger, failure, choice or ambition, I pity the sprog.

eh? cynical and sympathetic all at once...

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Nine nine, nein nein.

Oi you, just coz you've suddenly got a posh royal name you think you can come on ere and say anything!

 

[williamalex1]

Oi you, just coz you've suddenly got a posh royal name you think you can come on ere and say anything!

Please don't send me to the GM tower.

 

[BrizoH71]

I just can't get the image of Hugh Lawrie's Prince George from Blackadder out of my head.

Incidentally, Scottish shorthand for George is 'Dod'... maybe a wee inference to 'Dodi'.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

So we have

Bonnie Prince Charlie followed by
King Billy followed by
King Dod.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Doddie Wales - I quite like that. Mind you he might prefer to be known by his second name - so Sandy Wales...

 

[Doon frae Troon]

or

HRH Dod of Cambridge.

 

[SocketRocket]

Doddie Wales - I quite like that. Mind you he might prefer to be known by his second name - so Sandy Wales...

He's not a Wales. He's a Cambridge.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

He's not a Wales. He's a Cambridge.

I believe William is William Wales and officially William Duke of Cambridge.

 

[Hacker Khan]

I just can't get the image of Hugh Lawrie's Prince George from Blackadder out of my head.

Bizzarly enough that's the first thing I thought of when I heard the name. I really must get out more.....

 

[SocketRocket]

I believe William is William Wales and officially William Duke of Cambridge.

I think their real name is Winsor, the Wales and Cambridge are jobs/titles.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I think their real name is Winsor, the Wales and Cambridge are jobs/titles.

I think Harry is know in the army as Captain Harry Wales

Anyway - the last KIng Geroge's actual first name was Albert or Bertie - so maybe PG will be King Alexander

 

[Fader]

Birth name of William & Harry is Mountbatten-Windsor, William and Harry are both known as Wales for their military rank and the Wee one they chose to call Cambridge though the birth certificate may also say Mountbatten-Windsor its not likely we'll ever actually know..

It was the last King George, the Queens father that changed the families surname to Windsor after Windsor castle so as during the Wars to distance the Royals from their German cousins and origins as at that time their name was Saxe-Coburg a very German line of Royalty and Kaisers. Then when Queenie married Prince Phil she added his surname Mountbatten to their own name of Windsor to make sure the Royal name continued in some way rather than disappearing.

Plus in all honesty the wee-uns surname as is Chuckys and Wills surname is an irrelevance so are their first names because once they ascend the throne they have the right to change it to whatever they so wish. So who knows what the Royals could be called in a few years time..

Here endeth the lesson! :thup: