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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle welcomed their first child, Archie, in 2019. Two years later, their daughter was born, with the couple\u2019s choice of name raising many eyebrows. The little girl was named Lilibet, after the Queen, but since Harry and Meghan had left the Royal Family at this point, there were those who argued that it wasn\u2019t the right thing for them to do.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since she was born in the US, Lilibet only met the Queen once. By all accounts, that meeting was not what Harry and Meghan had hoped for, as Elizabeth declined to take a photo with her great-granddaughter. Now, a royal author has claimed that Harry knew that naming his daughter \u2018Lilibet\u2019 would mean trouble \u2013 and that the Duke of Sussex should\u2019ve anticipated the looming issue.<\/p>\n

In his memoir, Harry held nothing back when it came to criticizing the Royal Family. King Charles, Queen Consort Camilla, Prince William, and Kate Middleton all received their fair share of criticism, and Harry revealed several new things about his life within the royal sphere.<\/p>\n

Moreover, he also claimed that he wasn\u2019t invited to William and Kate\u2019s home to play with then-toddler Prince George and expressed his fears that their younger children, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, would end up like him\u2014a \u201cSpare.\u201d<\/p>\n

While talking at length, Harry told Harry about the supposed mistreatment of both himself and his wife, Meghan Markle, though there were also plenty of joyful elements to\u00a0Spare<\/em>.\u00a0That included new details about how he and Meghan handled the births of their two children, Archie and Lilibet, and what happened during their respective labors.<\/p>\n

Harry & Meghan \u2013 children Archie & Lilibet<\/h2>\n

Archie was born at the Portland Hospital in London, and as with any royal baby, the media and paparazzi were hugely interested. However, Harry and Meghan decided to approach things a bit differently. According to royal expert Katie Nicholl, Harry was obsessed with not giving the media any details of his son\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n

When it came to Lilibet, however, things were quite different. At the time, the couple had already left the Royal Family and moved to California, where they would be safe from the British paparazzi press.<\/p>\n

Harry and Meghan decided to keep as much as possible private surrounding Lilibet\u2019s birth. They released a short statement sharing the happy news\u00a0after<\/em>\u00a0her entrance into the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cLili was born on Friday, June 4, at 11:40 a.m. in the trusted care of the doctors and staff at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, CA. She weighed 7 lbs 11 oz. Both mother and child are healthy and well and settling in at home,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the statement read.<\/p>\n

Though their relationship with the Royal Family wasn\u2019t at its best at the time, family members congratulated the proud parents of two.<\/p>\n

It was during the now-infamous Oprah interview that Meghan and Harry announced they were expecting a little girl and confirmed it would be their last child. Unsurprisingly, given their connection to the Royal Family, it wasn\u2019t long before speculation over a possible name began to swirl.<\/p>\n

Lilibet \u2013 Meaning behind her name<\/h2>\n

Their firstborn was named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. Surprisingly, the name Archie has no connection to the British Royal Family. It means \u201cgenuine\u201d or \u201cbrave,\u201d and is a pretty common name in the UK. But for Harry and Meghan\u2019s daughter, it\u2019s a whole different story. Early on, a source told Page Six the couple was \u201chighly unlikely\u201d to name their daughter Diana.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Harry and Meghan were said to fear that the name Diana would \u201cplace too much pressure on the child,\u201d thereby making everything in her life more difficult. Lilibet, meanwhile, is a reference to Queen Elizabeth, who was called \u201cLilibet\u201d as a toddler. In fact, it was first used by then-Princess Elizabeth herself, because she couldn\u2019t pronounce her own name correctly.<\/p>\n

The Queen\u2019s grandfather, King George V, used to call her \u201cLilibet.\u201d Since then, the name has stuck, as reported by\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>. She was called Lilibet by the innermost circle of the family, including her late husband, Prince Philip.<\/p>\n

When Philip wrote to his mother-in-law following their wedding, he said: \u201cLilibet is the only \u2018thing\u2019 in the world which is absolutely real to me.\u201d Though Harry and Meghan\u2019s newborn daughter is named Lilibet, she will be known as \u201cLili.\u201d<\/p>\n

Royal experts claimed to name her Lilibet was \u201ca risk\u201d<\/h2>\n

Honoring both the Queen and Princess Diana (Lilibet has her grandmother\u2019s name as her middle name) by naming their daughter after them seems like a lovely thing to do. However, if certain rumors are to be believed, the names hold an even deeper meaning than they first suggest.<\/p>\n

Harry and Meghan faced heavy criticism over the names they chose for their beloved daughter immediately after her birth. One critic, royal commentator Richard Kay, wrote in a column for the Daily Mail that Meghan and Harry might have taken things too far by naming their daughter Lilibet.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy giving the baby the name Lilibet, the Queen\u2019s private family nickname \u2013 even though they intend to use the diminutive \u2018Lili\u2019 for their daughter \u2013 there is a risk,\u201d Kay wrote, as quoted by\u00a0Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill it be seen as a presumptuous choice for a royal baby who is eighth in line to the throne, but who will grow up on the other side of the world speaking with an American accent?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kay added: \u201cAnd how might Prince Charles feel about his fifth grandchild carrying such an intimate family pet name that he has never used himself? It is tempting to wonder if Harry would have been so emboldened in his choice if his grandfather Prince Philip \u2013 the only close family member permitted to call the Queen \u2018Lilibet\u2019 \u2013 had still been alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoubtless, there will be among the more cautious courtiers at the Palace some discomfort and the odd raised eyebrow at this latest convention-destroying Exocet from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked what the Queen would think of the girl\u2019s name, royal expert Angela Levin told Good Morning Britain she might even be offended.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she\u2019s desperately unhappy because they were desperately rude about her, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea. I think it\u2019s quite rude to her Majesty the Queen,\u201d Levin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very private nickname\u201d<\/h2>\n

She added: \u201cIt was a very private nickname from her husband, who hasn\u2019t been dead for very long. Prince Charles would never dream of referring to his mother as Lilibet. He\u2019s never used it \u2013 it was a special name, especially for the the Duke of Edinburgh\u2019. She added she believes it was \u2018demeaning\u2019 for the Sussexes to have used it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lilibet had to wait a whole year to meet some of her British Royal Family.\u00a0She celebrated her first birthday on the grounds of Frogmore Cottage, which, up until weeks after the\u00a0Spare<\/em>\u00a0memoir was revealed, had been Harry and Meghan\u2019s British base in the UK.<\/p>\n

The couple was seen receiving a birthday cake in their Netflix documentary series. Rumors had it that William and Kate had been invited since Harry and Meghan wanted to extend an \u201colive branch.\u201d However, they didn\u2019t show.<\/p>\n

But one person who did attend Lilibet\u2019s birthday party was Queen Elizabeth. It was her first time meeting her latest grandchild, though no pictures of the two were released. According to the Sun, Harry and Meghan wanted a photographer there to capture the moment between the Queen and Lilibet\u2014but as it was a private family meeting, they were told it would never happen.<\/p>\n

Queen Elizabeth refused to take pictures with Lilibet when they first met<\/h2>\n

According to royal expert Camilla Tominey, the Queen refused to take a photo with the little girl because she had a bloodshot eye. Harry was rumored to have expressed his desire to get a photo between the two \u201cat some point in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe couple had hoped to bring their own photographer to capture the first meeting between the sovereign, whose family nickname is Lilibet, and her great-granddaughter,\u201d Camilla Tominey\u00a0wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, the Queen personally intervened to prevent an official image being taken, apparently advising the couple that she had a bloodshot eye and did not want to feature in any pictures for public consumption.\u201d<\/p>\n

As mentioned, several royal experts openly criticized Harry and Meghan for naming their daughter Lilibet. Now, royal author Tom Quinn has spoken out on the same subject in his new book\u00a0Guilded Youth: An Intimate History of Growing Up in the Royal Family<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As reported by the\u00a0Express<\/a>, Quinn claims it is \u201cbeyond belief\u201d that Harry couldn\u2019t predict the trouble that might be caused by giving Queen Elizabeth\u2019s childhood name to his daughter.<\/p>\n

Harry knew naming his daughter Lilibet would \u201ddisrespect\u2019 Queen, expert claims<\/h2>\n

Moreover, while he suggests that the couple only wanted to pay tribute to the monarch, Quinn says Harry should\u2019ve known better.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Harry] surely would have known that appropriating the monarch\u2019s beloved childhood nickname would be perceived by many as disrespectful and intrusive in a way that naming their daughter Elizabeth would have not been,\u201d Quinn wrote in his book.<\/p>\n

Quinn added that at the time, some experts thought naming their daughter Lilibet was \u201ccynical\u201d and only an attempt by Harry and Meghan to increase their \u201croyal currency,\u201d even though it had been more than a year since they left the Royal Family.<\/p>\n

Further, the royal author quoted royal biographer Gyleees Brandreth, who said that Queen Elizabeth was \u201ctouched\u201d by the gesture from the Sussexes. However, according to Quinn, the late Queen never publicly shared how she really felt about her great-granddaughter being named Lilibet.<\/p>\n

The author recalled that the late Queen did not publicly share how she interpreted the gesture by the Sussexes. Quinn added that the issue about Lilibet\u2019s name simply shows a \u201cfundamental misunderstanding based on differences between American and UK culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMeghan would never have thought naming her daughter Lilibet was anything other than a huge compliment; in the UK, it looks like an impertinence, and this is emblematic of many of Meghan\u2019s difficulties,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

What do you think about this? Do you believe Harry and Meghan did the right thing to name their daughter Lilibet after the late Queen Elizabeth?\u00a0\u00a0Please, share this article with friends and family on Facebook and give us your opinion!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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