The practice of giving royal's names that other royals had is simply good for confusing people, and making history harder and boring than it already is. It also shows how un-original the British Royal Family is. My idea, is to either give new royal children different names, OR, and this would be the simplest option, rename every member of the royal family, past present and future, Fred.-- QuadAlpha, Feb 21 2002 King Ralph http://www.hollywoo...detail/movie/161160Hollywood tried, in their own way, to address this issue. [bristolz, Feb 21 2002] We're trying to settle on a name for our imminently-pending daughter, who I'm sure will be royalty for at least a while. Like the royals to whom you refer, we've decided to use family names. Unlike them, though, we've decided to use names from *other* people's families.-- beauxeault, Feb 21 2002 Why? I mean, what's the idea here? If tradition isn't important, why keep the royal family at all?-- phoenix, Feb 21 2002 What about King Alfred The Great? Actually, going back to pre-1066 Old English names might be cool. If only the queen had called her children Ethelred, Cnut, Uthur and Guinevere.-- pottedstu, Feb 21 2002 I reckon Beatrice and Eugenie are old-school enough!-- salachair, Feb 21 2002 Charles does not intend being King Charles (something to do with heads and choppers I believe) he is planning to be King Robbie or something!-- po, Feb 21 2002 I dunno about their names, but if you changed their titles to plain Mr, Mrs or Miss then I'd be a lot happier. beauxeault, good luck with the birthing! How about belleaux as a name? It's all that she'll be doing for the first few months anyway!-- DrBob, Feb 21 2002 PeterSealy: I sorta covered this when i posted my common Royal Family idea. Shortening their names to Liz, Phil, Chaz, Ed, Andy, and the future king, Prince Billy.-- [ sctld ], Feb 22 2002 So if they're all called Fred, what are we on now? Fred LXVIII ?-- notripe, Feb 22 2002 ............and the Queens? let them be Brenda!-- po, Feb 22 2002 t'ien hsia-- technobadger, Feb 22 2002 Naming someone Cnut could lead to some awful typographical errors...-- snarfyguy, Feb 22 2002 Actually, after trailing through the history books, i discovered that britain almost had a King Fred. George the seconds first born son was called Fred, but unfortunatly he got hit by a cricket ball and died beforeGeorge the second did. So we were this close||.-- [ sctld ], Feb 23 2002 was Bob the Bowler?-- po, Feb 23 2002 random, halfbakery