The end result – Charlotte Elizabeth Diana – paid homage not simply to the late Princess of Wales but in addition to Queen Elizabeth II, who was stated to have been touched by the gesture.
Six years later, William’s youthful brother, Prince Harry, now 41, adopted an identical path.
When his daughter Princess Lilibet Diana was born on June 4, 2021, Harry and spouse Meghan Markle stated in a press release: “Lili is known as after her great-grandmother, Her Majesty The Queen, whose household nickname is Lilibet.
“Her center title, Diana, was chosen to honor her beloved late grandmother, The Princess of Wales.”
On the time, Catherine had but to imagine the title of Princess of Wales, which she would later inherit in 2022 after Queen Elizabeth’s loss of life.
Myers writes that regardless of the brothers’ strained relationship, William and Catherine nonetheless reached out “upon Lilibet’s delivery in 2021,” sending “a present and a card of congratulations – although added that will “be the extent of their contact.”