When it comes to choosing baby names, members
of the British royal family like to keep things traditional and often choose
one that pays homage to another family member or a past ancestor.
It has been noticed of an incredibly sweet
detail about some of the Queen’s female children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
Every couple in the monarch’s immediate
family has chosen to give one of their children the middle name Elizabeth,
starting with Her Majesty’s own daughter Princess Anne.
Anne’s full name is Anne Elizabeth Alice
Louise, while her daughter is Zara Anne Elizabeth Tindall. Zara and her husband
Mike Tindall in turn chose to name their second daughter Lena Elizabeth.
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| William and Kate with newborn Charlotte in 2015 |
Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York’s
firstborn daughter is Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary. Likewise, Prince Edward
and the Countess of Wessex’s daughter is Lady Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary.
Back in October, Princess Beatrice revealed that
she and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi had named their first child, Sienna
Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi – a sweet nod to the Queen.
The Queen’s grandson Peter Philips and
his wife also chose to name their second daughter Isla Elizabeth, while Cambridges’
daughter is Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.
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| Several girls in the royal family share the middle name Elizabeth |
When
it comes to welcoming the next generations of the family in the future, you can
almost guarantee that one of them will have the middle name Elizabeth.
The
Queen’s full name is Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, in tribute to her
grandmother Queen Mary of Teck and her great-grandmother Alexandra of Denmark,
who was Edward VII’s Queen consort.
A royal
baby’s name isn’t usually announced until two or three days after the birth.
Although in Princess Beatrice’s case, the Duke and Duchess of York did not
confirm her name until two weeks after she was born in August 1988.
Historically,
the monarch would have had to approve the name of any royal baby and although
that is no longer the case, the Queen’s family members usually reveal the
baby’s name to her before announcing it publicly.
