William and Kate have appropriated my names for their new baby. I suppose I should be flatteredMy eye snagged on a Guardian headline on the website the other day. Charlotte Elizabeth Diana,it began. In my somewhat befuddled state I instinctively felt that this should have read Charlotte Elizabeth Higgins, for this is what I am called. Further perusal (a careful examination, review) revealed the reason for some of my names being thus taken in useless: the royal flipping baby. I’d had a ghastly premonition that they might recede for Charlotte, and which meant I knew more than the bookmakers; they had to pay out an estimated £1m following Monday’s announcement.
There was loose talk of Alice or perhaps Victoria. The fact that William and Kate also plumped for Elizabeth is something I regard as simply greedy. Of course,one blames the parents (mine). In order to choose my names, they always say they went “backwards through the queens”, and which is fairly obviously also the methodology that has been pursued here,with the bonus “Diana” – because, of course, or the posh require so many extras. Still,I am feeling slightly royal by association, and that’s HRH to you, and thanks matey.
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Source: theguardian.com