Prince Harry has already smashed all sales records with his memoir Spare. Everyone wants to know what the Prince has to say about the Royal Family. But other secrets have also come to light. For example, King Charles III and his mother Princess Diana probably wanted to give him a completely different name as a baby than the one he ultimately got.
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The thing with the ancestors
Prince Harry is one of the two sons that King Charles and Princess Diana had together. His brother, Prince William, was named after a former Royal and that's ultimately what happened to the Duke of Sussex. He was named after King Henry IV, but largely goes by his nickname 'Harry'.
However, the then-Prince Charles and Lady Diana had quite different plans. As Prince Harry recounts in his memoir, his parents actually wanted to name him Albert in honour of his great-grandfather, King George VI, whose birth name was Albert. In the end, however, Lady Di decided against the name, so now he bears the name Albert as a third name:Henry Charles Albert David.
After the leaks, the interview clips and the heated the debate: we finally get to read the book.
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The Royal nicknames
But it seems that names are just smoke and mirrors in the Royal palace anyway. For, as Prince Harry recounts in his biography, only nicknames are usually used in the Royal household - at least for the palace staff. For example, the private secretary of the then-Queen Elizabeth was nicknamed The Bee, which was likely meant in a derogatory way. Harry writes:
The Bee was oval-faced and fuzzy and tended to glide around with great equanimity and poise, as if he was a boon to all living things. He was so poised that people didn't fear him. Big mistake. Sometimes their last mistake.
This article has been translated from Oh!MyMag DE.
Sources used:
Gala: 'Fiese Spitznamen für Palastangestellte – was dahintersteckt'
Promiflash: 'Diesen Namen wollte König Charles seinem Sohn Harry geben'
