[AlaninCarlisle]

It's Archie! Who remembers "Educating Archie" on the old 1950s radio?

[Aunt Sally]

My grandfather's name was Archibald. 

Named because his builder father was building arched doorways when he was born. (You couldn't make it up  )

[wighty]

I'm sorry but I don't like it.  I don't care if Meghan and Harry are 'modern' they are part of our heritage and should have stayed with a 'traditional' name.  Has it been announced yet if he will have a Royal title?

[Aunt Sally]

No royal title as present.

[RubyRed]

No he hasn't but with a surname of mountbatten Windsor there ain't gonna be any mistake about him having royal blood. And yes, all the home birth rubbish was just a smokescreen to fool everyone. Didn't want plebs hanging around the hospital. Leaves a bit of a nasty taste knowing they have taken their fans for a ride. It's cheating. I know, I know I'm a curmudgeon. Sorry I will now zip it . . .

[Growster...]

I loved the name 'Nylon' - New York and London - but there is a website which is devoted to 'Gary', so all bets are off..;0)

Nylon... or the other way round Lonny 

Love it, Auntie!

I'l tell Mrs Growster right now!

Hilarious!

[mumofstig]

Personally, I think if she hadn't gone overdue, so probably needing to be induced, she would have had a home birth. It makes me laugh to think that at her age she's already labelled an older mother 

The baby is so far down the pecking order that I don't think he needs a title or a royal-sounding name tbh. Good luck to him

[Growster...]

No he hasn't but with a surname of mountbatten Windsor there ain't gonna be any mistake about him having royal blood. And yes, all the home birth rubbish was just a smokescreen to fool everyone. Didn't want plebs hanging around the hospital. Leaves a bit of a nasty taste knowing they have taken their fans for a ride. It's cheating. I know, I know I'm a curmudgeon. Sorry I will now zip it . . .

It's going to be the same whatever, Ruby!

Just bless places like here, where we can all just enjoy the 'pub' sort of chat and laugh when it suits us!

You're not a carmudgeon, most of us are with you, but the red-top papers just drool over things like this; they'll soon get bored!

I really couldn't care a monkey's, I have a life with Mrs Growster, and lots of chums in my village, and of course here, online. This is much more important than some sort of tot produced well out of my interest!

[mrs bouquet]

Archie Harrison - very nice.     Mrs Bouquet

[al78]

Grossly over-hyped IMO. In the end, they are just people, and people start families all the time. I sometimes think that there are a lot of people who have very empty dull lives, so feel the need to live an alternative one through someone else.

[John]

I'm rather pleased they decided to name their first born after me 

al78 - I don't think I'd like to live in the public eye and not be able to go out without armed security. Not as if any of the royal family had any choice about their parents. And just think - who would you rather have as head of state, The Queen or President Trump?

[Christine]

Hmm Having called my children Frederick and Coral back in the swinging sixties and been thoroughly disliked by the boy for the unfashionable name for 11 years till he realised he'd never be mistaken for anyone else so stopped wanting in changed and the girl for always getting called Carol (ongoing as she comes up to 50) I'm no person to comment on what people call their children. Let the children ask their parents to change it as and when - as if royals would get away with that. 

[Growster...]

Giving your children names which are either obscure, or just daft, imprisons them into a lifetime of having to 'explain' their name every time they are introduced to, or meet someone new.

You don't need to worry about that with lovely names like 'Jane', or 'Mary', or 'Tony', so why saddle kids with the need to make amends for the name they've been given at birth, while most children just like to start a discussion with something less boring!

Several chums here know me as 'Michael', so that's saved me several gasps of wonderment in telling every new girlfriend that I was 'TonesbesurasstenceMctoniii-Du'Wayne', spelt differently in pidgin Swahili!

I despair...

[John]

Several chums here know me as 'Michael', so that's saved me several gasps of wonderment in telling every new girlfriend that I was 'TonesbesurasstenceMctoniii-Du'Wayne', spelt differently in pidgin Swahili!

Didn't you stand in the elections for the Silly Party?

[grinling]

He is Prince Archie as his dad is a Prince. Only the Queen can make Megan a Princess.