Prince William planned Diana tribute for Charlotte
Prince William privately discussed plans to include a tribute to Princess Diana in the name of a future daughter years before Princess Charlotte was born, according to a new royal biography. The claim appears in an extract from a forthcoming book about the Prince and Princess of Wales and their role in the monarchy’s next era.
Royal biographer Mr Russell Myers wrote that the Prince of Wales “had privately voiced his preference for having a girl” and was “keen to incorporate a tribute to his late mother, most likely in the form of a middle name”, Hello Magazine reported.
In the same extract, Mr Myers said Catherine, Princess of Wales “had her heart set on Alexander for a boy or Alexandra (also Queen Elizabeth’s middle name) for a girl”, suggesting the couple had considered options well ahead of Charlotte’s arrival on 2 May 2015. Charlotte’s full name is Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.
The report adds that Prince Harry later used the Diana middle name when he and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, named their daughter Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, who was born in California on 4 June 2021. The family’s approach to names has been highlighted before, including in Britpop News reporting that Kate considered another name before naming Prince George.
The book extract offers fresh insight into how personal tributes influenced the Waleses’ naming choices, underscoring the continued prominence of Princess Diana’s legacy across the next generation of the Royal Family.
