Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Almost Gave Baby Archie a Different Name
What could’ve been. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry almost gave Archie a different name. A friend close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex told royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand for their book, Finding Freedom, that the couple considered a different name for their son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor, before he was born.
According to the source, Meghan and Harry “wanted something traditional, a name that was powerful even without a title in front of it.” So what was the other name the Duke and Duchess of Sussex considered? Well, it was a longer version of Archie’s actual name. “They thought about Archibald for all of one second…He was always going to be little Archie,” the insider said.
Still, while Archie is Meghan and Harry’s son’s...
