MAY I (perhaps uniquely as an anti-monarchist) point out that the Queen's father's first given name was Albert rather than George and that he was always known as Albert or more informally as Bertie within the Royal Family ("By George, the bookies got it right on name of royal baby", The Herald, July 25).
He was in fact christened Albert Frederick Arthur George. He adopted the regnal name George reportedly (perhaps apocryphally) on the basis of prohibition by Queen Victoria of use of the name Albert by ruling British monarchs.
Your article devotes much to analysis of and speculation about the names given to the young Prince. George I was in fact George Louis of Hanover (or rather Georg Ludwig in the original) and Victoria was Alexandrina Victoria, which plausibly accounts for the Alexander although it goes against my adopted Scottish grain to say so. I prefer to think that the name is tribute to past kings of Scotland and its use an attempt to cajole Scots away from unwelcome ideas of future independence.
In any case surely the Middletons had some small input?
Darrell Desbrow,
Overholm, Dalbeattie.
I UNDERSTAND that Prince Charles plans to adopt the title King George VII when he succeeds, out of respect for his late grandfather. Therefore, if Prince William comes to the throne as King William V, Prince George of Cambridge would succeed as King George VIII.
Brian D Henderson,
44 Dundrennan Road,
Battlefield, Glasgow.
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