ALL IN A NAME: HISTORY BEHIND SOME OF THE NEW ROYAL BABY NAMES
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Charlotte: 5/4The Duke and Duchess could name a daughter Charlotte - the feminine form of Charles - in honour of the Duke's father and the baby's grandfather, the Prince of Wales.
The name was also has historic royal standing with Queen Charlotte, born in 1744, using it instead of her given first name, Sophie.
The royal was married to George III and founded Kew Gardens.
Her daughter, born in 1766, was also called Charlotte and later known as the Princess Royal.
George IV also named his only child Charlotte, but she died in childbirth at the age of 21, leading to a mass outpouring of grief across the nation
Charlotte is also the middle name of Kate's sister Pippa Middleton.
Alice: 11/8Alice was a long-time favourite of the bookmakers.
Princess Alice was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and the great-grandmother of the Duke of Edinburgh. Her daughter Alix married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and was later executed alongside her family by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
Her granddaughter, also called Alice, was the Duke of Edinburgh's mother - Princess Alice of Battenberg. Later Princess Andrew of Greece, she saw little of Philip when he was a child.
In later years, she went to live at Buckingham Palace and was said to walk around in a nun's habit, smoking Woodbines.
Another Princess Alice was the Duchess of Gloucester - who died at the age of 102 in 2004 and was the mother of the present Duke of Gloucester.
Elizabeth: 9/2There is speculation William and Kate will pick Elizabeth - if not as a first name then as a middle name - for a girl in honour of William's grandmother and the reigning Queen.
The Queen is held in great respect by her family and William has spoken of how she has become an even more important part of his life as he has grown older. Kate too has forged a strong bond with William's grandmother in her short time as a royal. The Queen was known as Lilibet as a child.
William's great-grandmother the Queen Mother was also an Elizabeth. It is Kate's middle name and her mother's middle name too.
Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, ruled from 1558 until 1603.
Queen Victoria is the longest-reigning monarch in British history - although she is due to be overtaken by Elizabeth II this September
Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, ruled from 1558 until 1603
Victoria: 7/1Queen Victoria is the longest-reigning monarch in British history - although she is due to be overtaken by Elizabeth II this September.
She was actually named Alexandrina Victoria and as a child was nicknamed Drina, but ruled as Victoria, which she is said to have preferred.
The name has been a popular choice for princesses in the British royal family in tribute to Victoria.
On numerous occasions, royal daughters have been christened Victoria but often been known by one of their middle names instead.
Alexandra: 9/1
Alexandra is one of the Queen's middle names. It is also the name of her cousin Princess Alexandra. The Queen's great-grandmother was Queen Alexandra.
Queen Alexandra, who was born in 1844, was married to King Edward VII. A Danish princess, she had a happy childhood and was known to her family as Alix.
She was once considered one of the most beautiful princesses in Europe. Like William's mother, she held the title the Princess of Wales before Queen Victoria's son Edward VII acceded to the throne.
Diana: 10/1William and Kate are also likely to want to remember the Duke's late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in a car crash when William was just 15.
It is thought likely they would use the name Diana, if not as a first name, then as one of a baby daughter's middle names.
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