Birth of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor: May 6, 2019

[Denville]

Not muich to say about a baby who's barely a month old?

[Ista]

The only clue we have as to what we might expect in terms of seeing Archie is how the Cambridges have handled their children's exposure, so I think some comparisons are inevitable. Of course we have no idea what choices the Sussexes will make, they might handle everything totally differently, as is their prerogative.

[JessRulz]

Let's move on please.

[Gawin]

The christening thread has been closed so I'm posting this here. In today's Sunday Times Roya Nikkah claims Tiggy ( Legge-Bourke) Pettifer and Mark Dyer are among Archie's godparents along with Charlie von Straubenzee.

I have no idea if this is accurate - she doesn't name her source - but I thought I'd post this anyway.

Just happened to see it while catching up on the latest Sussex news.

[Curryong]

Harry has been incredibly close to these two mentors over the years so I think it's quite likely the information is accurate.

[O-H Anglophile]

Originally Posted by Gawin

The christening thread has been closed so I'm posting this here. In today's Sunday Times Roya Nikkah claims Tiggy ( Legge-Bourke) Pettifer and Mark Dyer are among Archie's godparents along with Charlie von Straubenzee.

I have no idea if this is accurate - she doesn't name her source - but I thought I'd post this anyway.

Just happened to see it while catching up on the latest Sussex news.

That seems reasonable, but also makes the question of why the secrecy that much bigger.

[Countessmeout]

Originally Posted by O-H Anglophile

That seems reasonable, but also makes the question of why the secrecy that much bigger.

Likely due to the others. Like the bridal party, they likely had equal choices. Perhaps one or more of Megan's choices wished to remain unknown.

These choices seem obvious. But also seems like could be a guess.

[Madame Verseau]

Jessica Mulroney may be a godparent because she was keeping Archie.

[Curryong]

I think it was discussed on the christening thread at the time, and it was found that Jessica comes from a prominent Canadian Jewish family and the Mulroneys are RC I believe.

[Countessmeout]

As usual stories are just rehashed. The Tiggy and Charlie story has been there since the weekend of the christening. And rumors that Isabel May was godmother simply as the woman was at Meghan's fashion event.

[Lori138]

And all of these stories would stop and have gone away long ago, if they had just announced the godparents and left it at that. But, wanting it a secret just makes people more likely to keep digging. Another PR mistake on the part of H & M.

Really, does anyone remember or care who the godparents of the Cambridge children are? No. It was announced and is done.

[poppy7]

Originally Posted by Lori138

And all of these stories would stop and have gone away long ago, if they had just announced the godparents and left it at that. But, wanting it a secret just makes people more likely to keep digging. Another PR mistake on the part of H & M.

Really, does anyone remember or care who the godparents of the Cambridge children are? No. It was announced and is done.

Zara is one godparent. No I am out after that.

[DuchessMia]

No one has cared since the christening. The tab needed a story for those pictures and voila! easy headline with rehashed, unverified reporting.

[Denville]

Originally Posted by DuchessMia

No one has cared since the christening. The tab needed a story for those pictures and voila! easy headline with rehashed, unverified reporting.

It was one of the many little irritating things they did.. particularly around the time of Archie's birth. If they had announced the godparents what would have happened? Nothing.

[iradavidovna]

I just love Archie's name. Well I like Archie more than Harrison. I know Harrison comes from the idea of "son of Harry" but I choose to link to US President William Henry Harrison. (It just fits for the son of Henry, brother of William, and of American political-commentator Meghan.)

Old Tippecanoe & Tyler too!!!!!!!!

[Claire]

I think the reason they were never announced is because they are all celebrities - some celebrities that Meghan has only know for months. Which would have made them a laughing stock. People normally don't pick relative strangers to be god parents. But hey their life.
It is also entirely possible that they are all non white and all women.

[muriel]

Originally Posted by Denville

It was one of the many little irritating things they did.. particularly around the time of Archie's birth. If they had announced the godparents what would have happened? Nothing.

I don't view them as "irritating things", but just signs of poor judgement. In my mind, it was a panoply of these little things over an 18 month period that were a major part in uniting the disparate British press against the couple so wonderfully.

Originally Posted by Claire

I think the reason they were never announced is because they are all celebrities - some celebrities that Meghan has only know for months. Which would have made them a laughing stock. People normally don't pick relative strangers to be god parents. But hey their life.
It is also entirely possible that they are all non white and all women.

Who knows, but frankly, it is now water under the bridge, as I see it.

H&M have chosen to step away from this life and all that came with it, let us now jut give them the space to build their new lives as they want to. They will, no doubt, still be judged, fairly or otherwise, by the court of public opinion, but that is for them to worry about.

[Osipi]

I'm in agreement with Muriel. To be honest, I didn't feel the public had the right to know who Archie's godparents were in the first place. There were little things over time that didn't follow what the general public expected of this couple and I sincerely believe that some of the things they did were actually trying to keep a distinct line between their public and private lives.

[muriel]

Originally Posted by Osipi

I'm in agreement with Muriel. To be honest, I didn't feel the public had the right to know who Archie's godparents were in the first place. There were little things over time that didn't follow what the general public expected of this couple and I sincerely believe that some of the things they did were actually trying to keep a distinct line between their public and private lives.

The arguments around whether the public had a right to know who the godparents were or not were played out a lot at the time, and I really do not think it is appropriate to go into them again.

However, a pragmatist may step away from those arguments briefly and see how it would have been an easy "give", especially as there had been clearly misleading communication issued by the couple around the birth. As I have always maintained, these are judgement calls that Harry, and their team, should have had the experience to make, but sadly that was clearly not the case. Anyways, perhaps the advice of the LA based PR firm will be taken more seriously than that of the Palace.

[MARG]

Perhaps these Godparents were unknowns and they didn't want the DF et al digging into the personal lives of their ordinary private friends.