Harry wanted to call his daughter Diana even before he met Meghan

Prince Harry he had decided that his daughter would be named after mum Diana long before he met Meghan Markle. The name of the second child of the Sussex, Lilibet “Lili” Diana, is a clear tribute to the grandmother queen – what a second People it would have already known the small via Zoom – but also, as many expected, to the deceased mother of the prince.

In recent days the royal watchers had ruled out the possibility that the dukes of Sussex would choose Diana as the first name of the little girl born on June 4th: a legacy far too heavy for a child. They were right: the first name of their second child, eleventh great-granddaughter of the sovereign of England, is Lilibet. So Elizabeth II was called as a child in the family, so as an adult she continued to call her only her husband, the deceased prince Filippo.

But Harry, baptizing his second child, would not never gave up remembering his beloved mother, who died at the age of 36 in an accident in Paris in 1997. He had decided that, as a source revealed to Page Six, “Well before he became a father. And well before meeting Meghan “. His wife, of course, knew this. «E fully supported her husband’s wish when they discussed the potential names of the upcoming baby together. ‘

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