{"id":220258,"date":"2025-06-28T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220258\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:13:10","slug":"most-unexpected-names-the-royal-family-have-from-agnes-to-hedwig-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220258\/","title":{"rendered":"Most unexpected names the Royal Family have – from Agnes to Hedwig | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Royal Family<\/a>‘s naming practice can be a bit of a mouthful to process with multiple middle names and long titles. Although some members have been given names that span generations before then such as Prince William<\/a>‘s eldest son George – whose name was previously used by royals such as King George V and George VI.<\/p>\n

Other members such as Princess Charlotte and Princess Lilibet – the young daughters of Prince William<\/a> and Prince Harry<\/a> – were given the middle name of ‘Diana’ as a sweet tribute to their paternal grandmother.<\/p>\n

Princess Alexandra, who is the only daughter of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, was given four middle names, with the third being rather unexpected – Olga.<\/p>\n

The royal, who was born on Christmas Day in 1936, was named Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel – with her last middle name thought to pay homage to the day she arrived.<\/p>\n

Princess Michael of Kent, who married Prince Michael of Kent in 1978, was named Baroness Marie-Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnit at the time of her birth in 1945.<\/p>\n

Princess Eugenie<\/a>‘s husband Jack Brooksbank, who married his wife in 2018, was given two middle names – Christopher and Stamp.<\/p>\n

The couple’s oldest son August, who was born in February 2021, was given the middle name of Hawke.<\/p>\n

The now-four-year-old was named after his great-grandfather – the late Queen’s husband – Prince Philip and a great-grandfather on Jack’s side, Rev. Edward Hawke Brooksbank.<\/p>\n

Following her divorce to her former husband Captain Mark Phillips, Princess Anne married Sir Timothy Laurence in 1992.<\/p>\n

Now aged 70, Sir Timothy Laurence was named Timothy James Hamilton at the time of his birth in 1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Family‘s naming practice can be a bit of a mouthful to process with multiple middle names…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[22811,61202,5105,7710,519,86876,86875,448,86874],"class_list":{"0":"post-220258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-jack-brooksbank","9":"tag-princess-michael-of-kent","10":"tag-royal","11":"tag-royal-families","12":"tag-royal-family","13":"tag-royal-family-names","14":"tag-royaln-family","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-vice-admiral-sir-timothy-laurence"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114758811883462011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}