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Just days after Princess Eugenie announced that her new baby boy's name is August, singer and actress Mandy Moore told the world her newborn son shares the name.
“August is a name that combines deep history ― it’s an Ancient Roman name ― with a modern, nontraditional male image,” Pamela Redmond Satran, a co-founder of the popular baby names website Nameberry, told HuffPost this week.
The name. which has jumped in popularity in the last few years, has the sweet diminutives "Auggie" or "Gus." And clearly, you don't have to be bown in August to be named August.
Moore’s son shares his middle name — Harrison — with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s son Archie. Do you think she’s a Royal Family fan?
Have a great weekeend, Royal Watchers! |
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👑 More Royal Family News 👑 |
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It's been 40 years since February 1981, when Prince Charles and Diana Spencer got engaged. Here's a look at Diana that year. (She was 19 at the time, and turned 20 just weeks before the wedding.) |
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Diana with Charles outside of Buckingham Palace right after they announced their engagement, on Feb. 24, 1981. |
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Receiving flowers from a young admirer in Tetbury in Gloucestershire in May, two months before the wedding. |
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At the Braemar Highland Games in Scotland, September 1981. |
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👑 This Week in Royal History 👑 |
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If Prince Philip’s mother were still alive, she’d be turning 136 this week. She lived a fascinating, but troubled life.
Princess Alice of Battenburg was born at Windsor Castle on Feb. 25, 1885. She was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria on her mother's side.
She married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903 and they lived in Greece until the early 1920s, when her husband's brother, King Constantine I, was forced to abdicate after a coup. The family relocated to France, where Alice worked helping Greek refugees. That's when she became very religious. Her faith would stay with her until the end of her life.
In her mid-40s, Alice was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She spent years in treatment, during which she had no contact with her children, until her daughter Cecile was tragically killed in a plane crash at age 26. Cecile’s funeral was Alice’s first time seeing the rest of her children in six years.
Alice returned to Greece, where she sheltered Jews during the Holocaust. After the war, she started a nursing order of nuns, and remained outside of Athens until the late '60s, when she moved in with her son and daughter-in-law at Buckingham Palace. She died two years later, at age 84. |
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