Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's newborn royal babe, who up until now we've been calling Baby Sussex, finally has a real name that we can reveal to you.
His name is Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
The Sussex Royal Instagram account was first to break the news, with this simply adorable black and white snap:
But an official statement from the Palace soon followed:
With the announcement of the name, comes confirmation that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have opted out of giving their baby a royal title at this stage, in a bid to give him a more down-to-earth start in life.
Obviously, everyone is very excited by this news, with Twitter users in a total flurry.
And hilarious responses already popping up in response to the relatively lengthy title:
Update 1/05
Royal fans were in a frenzy yesterday when they thought possible names for Meghan Markle’s baby had been revealed on the royal family’s website.
Buckingham Palace, however, made a very rare move and commented on the 'baby name' conspiracy theory circling the internet. Sadly, the big reveal was just a glitch.
A Palace spokesperson confirmed to Yahoo UK: 'A large number of search term redirects were set up some time ago on royal.uk,' the spokesperson explained. 'This was in order to improve user experience. For guidance you will note that other names preceded by ‘prince’ or ‘princess’ produce the same result.'
With just days (we hope!) until Meghan Markle finally announces to the world that she's given birth, we're still in the dark about pretty much everything. A specific date? Nope. The gender? Not a clue. The royal baby name? Well, on that, we may have more information.
According to the Express, the royal family's website might have spilled the beans and accidentally announced the baby's name. Well, one of three baby names. Let us explain.
The website www.royal.uk has landing pages for all major members of the royal family, including the children. Princess Charlotte's personal page, for example, has the URL www.royal.uk/princess-charlotte.
If you use the URL formula to test a completely random name, say Princess Grace, you get a 'page not found'.
But if you test the names Prince Arthur (www.royal.uk/prince-arthur), Prince James (www.royal.uk/prince-james) and Prince Alexander (www.royal.uk/prince-alexander) the pages bounce back to the main page. This could imply that they're reserved or held for something and aren't 'live' yet.
When visitors try to access pages for the other names rumoured for the new Prince or Princess, the website says 'Page not found'.
Interesting!
This is the biggest indicator that Meghan and Harry's baby will be a boy. And despite rumours that Meghan is doing things a little differently, the couple may have chosen a pretty traditional name after all.
In October last year, Fitzdares were placing their bets on Alexander if the baby is a boy, with odds of 2/1.
Other popular choices were Arthur (3/1), Philip (6/1) and Albert (6/1). So not far off. Unsurprisingly most of the predicted names follow in the traditional names used through royal history, with Nicholas, Alfred, James and Thomas all coming in as strong options for Meghan and Harry's first born. Still, we'll soon find out.
