IslandDweller
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I think Estelle is awkward with a title ahead of it - Prinsessan Estelle? Drottning Estelle? I just don't think it works. I think "Princess Estelle" - with the double "ess" sound - is especially bad, but I suppose D&V can't be blamed for not concerning themselves with how it sounds in other languages. However, I do think royal parents need to look at a name from every angle.
BUT.......
I myself like a lot of names other people hate. I think the name Josephine is beautiful, and many people on this thread have referred to it as awful. I also love the name Edith, but I know most people would consider it hideous; and so I would never saddle a daughter with it.
Also, this isn't the first unprecedented royal name. I wouldn't have thought Silvia, Sonja, or Madeleine could be royal names; but they all work fine with royal titles, IMO, even if "Silvia" for one seems very mid-20th century. It's not exactly the sort of classic name one would expect to find on a queen. I also think "Queen Maud" and "Queen Ena" must have seemed strange to people in their day, and I've always thought "Irene" a strange choice for a royal name in the days when royals still married across national lines and the world might have ended up with a "Queen Irene"!
BUT.......
I myself like a lot of names other people hate. I think the name Josephine is beautiful, and many people on this thread have referred to it as awful. I also love the name Edith, but I know most people would consider it hideous; and so I would never saddle a daughter with it.
Also, this isn't the first unprecedented royal name. I wouldn't have thought Silvia, Sonja, or Madeleine could be royal names; but they all work fine with royal titles, IMO, even if "Silvia" for one seems very mid-20th century. It's not exactly the sort of classic name one would expect to find on a queen. I also think "Queen Maud" and "Queen Ena" must have seemed strange to people in their day, and I've always thought "Irene" a strange choice for a royal name in the days when royals still married across national lines and the world might have ended up with a "Queen Irene"!