rominet09
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Nice news, congratulations to them !
Does little Maud have a title? Is she styled as Lady or as The Honourable?
Do we know how close Frederick and William are? It would be sweet if Maudy and George could be buds
Very interesting name. Perhaps they liked the 1970's hit TV show 'Maude' and drew a little inspiration. Anyways, congrats to them and now everyone will look to Mike & Zara birth next year.
And William and Frederik never seemed very close
I hope they call her "Daphne".
Didn't Frederick also attend Eton College? And he is only three years older than William, so they could meet there on many occasions.
Didn't Frederick also attend Eton College? And he is only three years older than William, so they could meet there on many occasions.
They are not really close family are they... the grandmother of P.William is a cousin of the father of Frederick...
I don't know that many cousins of my grandparents at all, haven't even met all their siblings...
Another simcha for the British royal family! On the heels of the birth of Prince George, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent have issued a statement announcing the birth of their first grandchild.
The parents, Lord Frederick Windsor and Sophie Winkleman, welcomed a baby girl yesterday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, where the couple is based. She weighed 7 pounds and was given the name Maud Elizabeth Daphne Marina. We're sure Georgie and Maud will be the best of friends.
How is Isla traditional? I have not heard of it before it was given to Peter and Autumn's child.
I am not sure I like Maud. In the Middle Ages it seems to have been used a lot, yet was thought of as a shortened form of Matilda or Madeline. Hard to see how one gets Maud out of Matilda, but in the Middle Ages they pronounced things differently. They may have pronounced Matilda "Mawtilda," and then the "t" got easily changed to "d". Most people are not aware of how different speech was in the time of William the Conqueror. Most upper crusters spoke French, but a few began to be proficient in English (like Henry I)
or Scots. The name Matilda seems to zing back and forth between Scots and English speaking royals. And Maud became the name du jour, if I remember correctly, when Edyth of Scotland married Henry I and changed her name to Maud. Henry had twenty
illegitimate children, only one by Maud as I recall.
I would have somewhat preferred Matilda or Madeline to Maud, but Maud is cute. As Mirabel said, Maud Windsor somehow does not sound right? Matilda or Madeline Windsor sounds better.
I hope they call her anything other than Maud.
I do not care for that name at all. Nor do I think Maud Windsor sounds very nice.
Wish they'd changed the order of her names.
I hope they call her anything other than Maud.
I do not care for that name at all. Nor do I think Maud Windsor sounds very nice.
Wish they'd changed the order of her names.