Ok and since this is probably the first time in British history that the Queen Dowager and Queen Regnant have same name, this term has come to prominence for the first time..
That is my undestanding.
Now I started wondering isnt it weird to name her after mother, grandmother, great-granmother..in a row..with mother's as 1st name..as if there is no other name..Do you kno any1 else who have their 1st names same as their mother's first? pretty weird actually
..lol..no offence..no
lesse majeste..
Remember at the time Elizabeth II was born, it was not expected she would ever ascend to the Throne. Firstly, because the Duke and Duchess of York might have still have sons (who would be ahead of Elizabeth in the Line of Succession), and secondly because the Duke of York had an elder brother who was expected to marry and produce heirs to the throne.
It was not at all unusual at the time for children to share their parents' first names and since no one could predict that in future there could be a case of two Queens Elizabeth, there was no reason why the little Princess couldn't be named after her mother.
As for how usual it was, as I said, it was not at all unusual. In fact, many English and British Princesses had been named after their mothers.
Here are but a few of them:
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Princess Matilda (daughter of William the Conqueror)
Named after her mother,
Matilda of Flanders.
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Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (daughter of Henry II of England)
Named after her mother,
Eleanor of Aquitaine. The name was very new and might have even originated with Eleanor of Aquitaine who was named after her own mother (her mother's name was Auenor and the little girl was named Alienor, Latin for "the other Aenor"). Incidentally, Eleanor of England herself had a daughter called
Eleanor (or rather, Leonor) who went on to (breifly) become Queen of Aragon through her marriage to James I of Aragon.
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Isabella of England (daughter of John, King of England)
Named after
Isabella of Angouleme. Isabella of Angouleme had another daughter named Isabella (Isabella de Lusignan) from her marriage to Hugh X de Lusignan.
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Eleanor of England (daughter of Edward I of England)
Named after her mother,
Eleanor of Castile.
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Elizabeth of York (daughter of Edward IV of England)
Named after her mother,
Elizabeth Woodville.
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Elizabeth Tudor (daughter of Henry VII of England)
Named after her mother,
Elizabeth of York.
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Henrietta of England, Duchess of Orleans (daughter of Charles I of England)
Named after her mother,
Henrietta Marie of France.
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Princess Caroline of Great Britain (daughter of George II)
Named after her mother,
Caroline of Ansbach.
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Charlotte, Princess Royal (daughter of George III)
Named after her mother,
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
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Victoria, Princess Royal (daughter of Queen Victoria)
Named after her mother,
Queen Victoria.
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Mary, Princess Royal (daughter of George V)
Named after her mother,
Mary of Teck.
In some cases, the Princesses named after their mothers were first-born children (such as Victoria, Princess Royal) and, unlike the present Queen, had very real chances of one day ascending to the Throne.