“Harry and Meghan’s second child is here, and for her name the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have chosen to pay tribute to both her great-grandmother and her late grandmother.
“Born Friday at a hospital in Santa Barbara, Calif., Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor carries the family nickname of Queen Elizabeth II, who as a toddler struggled to pronounce her first name, the BBC reported.
“As the story goes, King George V interpreted his granddaughter’s attempts to say “Elizabeth” as “Lilibet.” The name stuck and has been used by the family ever since — including, endearingly, by the queen’s late husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who died in April.”
Read more at NPR
