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Mind your language

Don’t want a Princess Charlotte? Try Violant, Fatima, Davina, Senna…

Royal naming conventions are more colourful than you might think

9 May 2015

9:00 AM

9 May 2015

9:00 AM

It could have been much worse. Someone had pointed out that among the new baby’s ancestors was Queen Violant of Hungary, which would make a splendid name. If that sounds unlikely for a possible queen of the United Kingdom, the wee princess might have been the victim of a suggested cross-cultural gesture by being given the name Fatima, since the present Queen and her heirs are descended from Mohammed through his daughter.

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