I was recently pondering the importance that we attach to names when there was, yet again, intense media scrutiny over the names chosen for the latest royal baby. She ended up being Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, an obvious nod to her great-grandmother the Queen, her grandmother Diana, and a feminine form of her grandfather’s name Charles. She joined her brother George Alexander Louis, the latter name probably recognising Lord Louis Mountbatten. I was wondering, however, whether these children would be like … Continue reading