It should have been Elvis
I can say I am quite glad that William and Kate didn't follow the Albanian example where Britain would have eventually King Zog, though like George VI, he might have chosen to disregard his first name. I would quite like baby Windsor (he is not baby Cambridge or Wales as Windsor is the real family name, after Saxe-Coburg Gotha of course) to ignore his first name in place of his second as Alexander I has a ring to it. Henry would have been nice as then we would be one away from double regnal figures and the significant 'X' (Henry IX). As it is, George VII doesn't advance the cause as well, though it is the next most popular name. The third name, Louis, made it through 19 variations in France (and even 'Charles' made it to ten iterations), though Louis XVII never ruled, dying before the defeat of Napoleon and Louis-Philippe took on a double name to become the first of his kind (Louis Napoleon cyncially disregarded his first name to cash in on a popular family name as Napoleon III). That Louis should be so popular for French kings is even more striking that in 150 years to 1793, only three kings ruled (natch, all named Louis). The way things look at the moment though, Georgie Boy, you won't be getting to flash that regnal number til you're in your seventies.
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