Overview
- Excerpts from Russell Myers’s forthcoming book detail how the couple weighed names for their first child in 2013.
- Myers writes that Catherine had her heart set on Alexander for a boy or Alexandra for a girl.
- He reports that Prince William privately hoped for a daughter and wished to honor Princess Diana in a middle name.
- The pair did not learn the baby’s sex, consulted a baby-name book from a friend, and shared lighthearted moments over offbeat ideas.
- William jokingly suggested names like Rodney or Graham to his press team, and the couple ultimately chose George with Alexander among his middle names while Charlotte later received Diana and Elizabeth as middle names.