Posted on 05/08/2019 4:36:15 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Archie means "genuine", "bold" or "brave" - and is more popular in Britain than the US. It was originally a shortened form of Archibald but is now often used as a name on its own.
And, rather fittingly, Harrison - a name which was originally used as a surname - means "son of Harry".
Mountbatten-Windsor is the surname which was created in 1960, combining the surnames of the Queen and Prince Philip when they married. The double-barrelled name was a concession to the Duke of Edinburgh, who was said to have complained that his children would not bear his name.
The three children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge all have Cambridge on their birth certificates.
Royal author Penny Junor said she thinks the Duke of Edinburgh would be "absolutely thrilled" with his surname being used.
"Prince Philip was never allowed to call his children by his own surname," she said. "I think that's a really nice tribute to Harry's grandfather.
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This I care about. /s
Named after Archie Bunker?
She probably watched a lot of “All in the Family” as a child. Thank goodness she didn’t name him Meathead.
Interesting that it is Harry’s grandparents, not his father, in the picture.
Archibald Leach did OK for himself.
No title? Pity
Nice photo, I like Harry, Archie is a good name.
I can just hear the Queen saying, “What a nice negro baby. Which castle do you work in dear?”
When the royal couple were tossing the baby back and forth across their huge royal room he was arching his back in panic. So they decided to call him “Archie!”
This was “the introduction” to the Queen. I am sure he and what’s her face are in the room.
“Please accept this christening
gift from the Prince and me. Oh,
and here’s a banana for your monkey.”
Yep, a non-event, one reason the framers rejected the monarchy.
So are they going to show us what little Archie Hewitt looks like?
Actually, that sounds like something Prince Phillip would say. “Lookit the wee pickaninny.” There was a hilarious article several years back of all the awkward remarks he’d made in the course of his travels around the old Empire nations . . . He’s a hoot.
If the baby is named after Archie, who is Meathead?
Actually they’re not - the Prince of Wales is in Berlin at the moment, at the request of the British government.
They did try to plan things so he’d be in the UK for the time of the birth, but turned out the date predictions were wrong, and the business of government goes on.
Now all Archie needs is Betty and Veronica to compete for him...
Honestly, I see all these references to an American comic and wonder why anybody thinks it has any relevance at all to anything in the UK.
People in Britain are not thinking of Archie comics when they hear this name - they’re just not well enough known there.
As a traditionalist, I’m not a fan of the name because I don’t think it matches royal tradition and we are talking about somebody who will probably be the nephew and then the first cousin of a King - they can’t get away from that. They should have done what they normally do in the family - give the kid the formal names but call them something different at home - King Edward VIII was David, to his family and close friends, for example.
The same Archie Bunker that called England a "Fag Country"?
People in Britain are not thinking of Archie comics when they hear this name - they’re just not well enough known there.
Is Archie Bunker (a character on US TV) any better known to Brits?
As a traditionalist, I’m not a fan of the name because I don’t think it matches royal tradition
TBH neither am I.
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