Well in my temporary retirement I’m rapidly crossing potential careers off the list.  Apparently Royal Psychic is out of the question. I predicted a baby girl, born at 2.25 pm (London time) and weighing 2500 gram (5.5 pounds). Instead a boy arrived at 4.24pm with a weight of 8lbs 6oz.

However, we’ve still got the name to come. I’d voted for Alexandra Diana for a girl but as that’s shot, what name do you think is suitable for a future king?

The bookies are going with George, James or Alexander. A royal commentator put in a bid for Albert and another suggested Arthur. This is why I would have been a terribly unsuitable royal wife – I hate the traditional names!

Given that my eggs are rapidly reach their use-by date I’m happy to hand over what would have been my choices of male names should I have had a boy – Mitchell James or Cody Campbell (James was my Dad’s name and Campbell was a family name on my husband’s side). So there you go Kate happy to help out – I can’t wait for the coronation of King Cody.

I felt a terrible pressure in naming my children, and I only had to come up with a first and middle name! Poor Kate and Wills have to come up FOUR. William is officially William Arthur Philip Louis.

Given it took the couple three weeks to name their dog I reckon this could be a bit of challenge for them – so perhaps we should help out.

I’m hoping that Spencer might get a run as a bit of a tribute to the late Diana but it’s probably unlikely. I reckon Charles might get a look in or Micheal as a nod to Kate’s Dad. Also Diana’s middle name was Frances after her Mum and Kate’s Dad has the middle name Francis so I suppose that could be an option.  But it’s when you try to run four names together it all begins to sound a bit dodgy.

James Alexander Spencer Charles – see that’s awkward I don’t think you can have Spencer side-by-side with Charles.

James Francis Alexander Charles – not too bad I suppose.

Alexander James Spencer – I quiet like the sound of that but we’re still a name short.

Alexander James Michael Spencer – that’s OK – but is it regal enough?

Alexander Michael Charles Spencer – still got the problem of Charles/Spencer but I reckon it’s sounding good.

Do we need to google previous King Alexander’s just to make sure we aren’t naming the baby after some marauding tyrant who raped and pillaged his way through the countryside?

I’m not even going to try to sound out  the four-barrel moniker with the child’s official double-barrelled surname of Mountbatten-Windor – I don’t think we can make anything that lengthy flow smoothly off the tongue. Imagine the poor kid trying to fill out all those forms that have a set number of squares for your “full name”?

How did you go about naming your children? Any suggestions for Kate and Wills?