Welcome Lilibet Lili Diana, Mountbatten-Windsor. Second child of Harry and Meghan who was born on June 4 in Santa Barbara. A name, Lili Diana, was already written before she was even born with the loving and trustworthy care of the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital as the happy parents have said to announce their baby to the world.
Already written why Diana would have turned 60 on July 1 this year, and also in July it will be 40 years from the fairytale Royal wedding that made the world of Lady D fall in love, a dream in the ivory taffet dress with an infinite train. But above all because the life choice of Diana’s son and her love Meghan has always been openly inspired by the rebellious Diana. And then Lili, Lilibet, Elizabeth’s nickname when a child took her first steps in her birthplace on Bruton Street in London.
A door open, a crack left ajar after the many tensions, the break a year ago and confirmed a few months ago, of the dukes of Sussex with London, the Royal Household. And the queen, at the end of it all.
Therefore, a name that a declaration of life as in the end have always been up to now the choices of Harry and Meghan. And that Mountbatten-Windsor – the surname that his older brother already bears, little Archie – plays a tribute to his grandfather who passed away on April 9th. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who had struggled to be able to give his surname (Mountbatten) at least to part of the lineage.
Harry and Meghan, the insights
Whether little Lili Diana Mountbatten-Windsor will be able to mend the rift, the fault that now divides almost irremediably on both sides of the ocean – a cultural division, as well as a division in the family – remains to be seen. For now, the fracture still looks too fresh, so much so that the Twitter account of the Royal family did not immediately relaunch the news as the usual congratulations. But Lili Diana will certainly help to dilute the queen’s bitterness, and who knows to heal the wound of a nephew now too far away. And not just geographically.
June 6, 2021 (change June 6, 2021 | 19:48)
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