It’s a Boy!

[fairy]

Can't get over the Name.
Anyone remember the funy Scene in "When Harry met Sally" in which Harry explains to Sally, that she couldn't have had good sex with a Boy named Sheldon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSx6cPJLfk
Harry: Shel? Sheldon? No, no, you didn’t have great sex with…Sheldon.
Sally: I did too.
Harry: No you didn’t. A Sheldon can do your income taxes. If you need a root canal Sheldon’s your man, but humping and pumping is not Sheldon’s strong suit. It’s the name. Do it to me ‘Sheldon’. You’re an animal ‘Sheldon’. Ride me big ‘Sheldon’. Doesn’t work.

Well I think it wouldn't work with Archie too: Although "you are an animal, Archie" immediately brings the picture of the cute little crocodile called Archie from the adorable Koala Brothers..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuUxJgJ5FII

[onar]

Can't get over the Name.
Anyone remember the funy Scene in "When Harry met Sally" in which Harry explains to Sally, that she couldn't have had good sex with a Boy named Sheldon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSx6cPJLfk
Harry: Shel? Sheldon? No, no, you didn’t have great sex with…Sheldon.
Sally: I did too.
Harry: No you didn’t. A Sheldon can do your income taxes. If you need a root canal Sheldon’s your man, but humping and pumping is not Sheldon’s strong suit. It’s the name. Do it to me ‘Sheldon’. You’re an animal ‘Sheldon’. Ride me big ‘Sheldon’. Doesn’t work.

Well I think it wouldn't work with Archie too: Although "you are an animal, Archie" immediately brings the picture of the cute little crocodile called Archie from the adorable Koala Brothers..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuUxJgJ5FII

Me neither.
I cannot realise that it's his actual name and not nickname for Archibald.

[Margaret]

Can't get over the Name.
Anyone remember the funy Scene in "When Harry met Sally" in which Harry explains to Sally, that she couldn't have had good sex with a Boy named Sheldon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSx6cPJLfk
Harry: Shel? Sheldon? No, no, you didn’t have great sex with…Sheldon.
Sally: I did too.
Harry: No you didn’t. A Sheldon can do your income taxes. If you need a root canal Sheldon’s your man, but humping and pumping is not Sheldon’s strong suit. It’s the name. Do it to me ‘Sheldon’. You’re an animal ‘Sheldon’. Ride me big ‘Sheldon’. Doesn’t work.

Well I think it wouldn't work with Archie too: Although "you are an animal, Archie" immediately brings the picture of the cute little crocodile called Archie from the adorable Koala Brothers..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuUxJgJ5FII

Me neither.
I cannot realise that it's his actual name and not nickname for Archibald.

I doubt I'll ever accept that Archie is really that child's legal name.

[Lady Alice]

We can hope that he'll actually be baptized with a full name. Won't bet on it, but we can hope.

I've noticed an overall cooling on the topic of the Dumbarton kid since the whole fiasco took place. There is none of the sustained excitement that happened even over little down-the-list Louis (funny how there was a little head-scratching over his name, but at least it's a standalone name and has history in the family - and Prince Louis suits him now and also later as an adult... Archie, not so much). The moderate fans are changing their stance and cocking their head at the circus and the stupidity. The full blown "stans" are another matter... but everyone theoretically has to grow up, sometime. This too shall pass.

[Oh_Caroline]

We can hope that he'll actually be baptized with a full name. Won't bet on it, but we can hope.

I've noticed an overall cooling on the topic of the Dumbarton kid since the whole fiasco took place. There is none of the sustained excitement that happened even over little down-the-list Louis (funny how there was a little head-scratching over his name, but at least it's a standalone name and has history in the family - and Prince Louis suits him now and also later as an adult... Archie, not so much). The moderate fans are changing their stance and cocking their head at the circus and the stupidity. The full blown "stans" are another matter... but everyone theoretically has to grow up, sometime. This too shall pass.

There are some stans (I'll call them Stan Lite) that are starting to question things...name, not using Earl of Dumbarton, the twee feet picture, etc.  Now the Stan Lites are few in number but they exist which is important.

[Henny]

In this photo he looks like he has a "black eye" could be just the lighting, or could be a "forceps delivery" would explain why his head is covered with the "beanie"
Just wondering Nothing to be ashamed of it happens sometimes.

All babies wear the beanies to keep in body heat.  They can't regulate it yet, and most of the body's heat leave through the head.

Yes I understand that, but Wills and Kate didn't pull the beanie so low over the faces of their babies, and they had the photo call a few hours after birth, not a few days later.
 

[Lady Liebe]

We can hope that he'll actually be baptized with a full name. Won't bet on it, but we can hope.

I've noticed an overall cooling on the topic of the Dumbarton kid since the whole fiasco took place. There is none of the sustained excitement that happened even over little down-the-list Louis (funny how there was a little head-scratching over his name, but at least it's a standalone name and has history in the family - and Prince Louis suits him now and also later as an adult... Archie, not so much). The moderate fans are changing their stance and cocking their head at the circus and the stupidity. The full blown "stans" are another matter... but everyone theoretically has to grow up, sometime. This too shall pass.

I'm into the I Just Don't Care Anymore frame of mind right now. I don't wish anything bad for Archie, but this nonsense is not worth following . . . .

[Konradin]

Can't get over the Name.
Anyone remember the funy Scene in "When Harry met Sally" in which Harry explains to Sally, that she couldn't have had good sex with a Boy named Sheldon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSx6cPJLfk
Harry: Shel? Sheldon? No, no, you didn’t have great sex with…Sheldon.
Sally: I did too.
Harry: No you didn’t. A Sheldon can do your income taxes. If you need a root canal Sheldon’s your man, but humping and pumping is not Sheldon’s strong suit. It’s the name. Do it to me ‘Sheldon’. You’re an animal ‘Sheldon’. Ride me big ‘Sheldon’. Doesn’t work.

Well I think it wouldn't work with Archie too: Although "you are an animal, Archie" immediately brings the picture of the cute little crocodile called Archie from the adorable Koala Brothers..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuUxJgJ5FII

Me neither.
I cannot realise that it's his actual name and not nickname for Archibald.

I doubt I'll ever accept that Archie is really that child's legal name.

Same here, but at least they gave us pretty much to dish. Unfortunately, nothing else can be expected from these two, and that is the reason of this being so ironic: They provide amno for us to actually go after them, when it could, and should, be otherwise: they are royals, she by marriage, him by birth, they could just keep a very private life, enjoying the perks of their good luck in the birth area, doing little in exchange of so much, and yet... this is the outcome we get.

So no, at this point, I do only expect even less and more drama. My only wish is they will be able to be good parents to the little toddler, that is all.

[Miss Marple]

If they had their hearts (for whatever reason) really set on these two names why could they not stick in a thrid neutral upper classy name? Just in case Archie Harrison feels like British gentry and decides to live of the money his dad will leave him one day, enjoy country life and the city now and then ... then it would be nice for him (also before in Eton etc.) if he had a name that fits in.

[MarieQueenie]

Harry's little interview with the press was outside the staples, so perhaps the little one was born in a manger?

We, me and a colleague, watched the little interview without sound (due to circumstances). We have to confess we were too much distracted by the beautiful horsies in the background. My colleague even wondered if they were alive, until they moved a bit.

Ha ha ha ! Same reaction !-) I couldn't focus on Harry, distracted by the horses. 

[Maria]

So many reports on this thread..

This topic really isn't for this board.