The late Queen Elizabeth was an important woman of many names, titles and styles, some of which were also private family nicknames, with a particularly hilarious one being given to her by a young Prince William.
31.07.2023 - 09:43 / dailyrecord.co.uk
When the future King and Queen of England welcomed their child into the world they decided to name him Louis Arthur Charles.
Louis is a popular name within the royal family and is also the middle name of the five-year-old's father and older brother Prince George in honour of Charles' mentor Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was killed in an IRA bombing in 1979.
Charles is a nod to the young royal's grandfather and the British monarch, King Charles III, who said he was delighted to have another baby in the family when little Louis was born.
A statement from Charles and Camilla at the time said: "We are both so pleased at the news. It is a great joy to have another grandchild, the only trouble is I don’t know how I am going to keep up with them."
William and Kate's youngest son's official title is His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Cambridge but the youngster only received a HRH title after his great-granny Queen Elizabeth II intervened, the Mirror reports.
The late monarch stepped in to overwrite a rule which had formerly been put in place by her father King George V, the Express reports.
Back in 1917, he had set out new guidance on which royals were eligible for titles and who was too far down the line of succession to qualify for one.
He decided that all of the sovereign's children would automatically become a Prince or Princess as well as any grandchildren who were born through the male line.
However, great-grandchildren weren't included on the list which caused a problem when Prince George was born as he technically shouldn't have had the title either despite being the future King of England.
The Queen stepped in and ruled that George would receive a title and decided to extend the change to all of Kate and William's three
The late Queen Elizabeth was an important woman of many names, titles and styles, some of which were also private family nicknames, with a particularly hilarious one being given to her by a young Prince William.
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