Eugenie's son's names revealed

I've just noticed one of the other children n the struwwellpeter is Fidgety Philip.!

You best me to it MisAdventure! Other cautionary tales include Harriet and the Matches and the story of Suck a Thumb, Evryone a bit alarming.

That's the poem Missadventure. Who by?

Well, I hope Eugenie's little bundle of joy always eats his soup.
Apparently it is someone's middle name, and Hawke is a family name of her husband.

Ellianne

Are you sure this Augustus boy with the soup wasn't by Heinrich Hoffmann, not Heinrich Heine? Heine was a bit sombre.
Where's a German scholar when we need one?

Yes, it was Heinrich Hoffmann. It was one of the Struwwelpeter stories about naughty children. For some reason, the original German is about a boy called Kaspar, but he appears as Augustus in the English translations.

Dankeschön growstuff. Interesting.

Bluebell ?
Reminds me of one those names from
“only heard in Waitrose”
“August darling put the mizuna back you know the llama prefers mooli”

Tbh, I couldn't care less what minor royals call their children. The important thing to me is that it is happy news (a nice change) and that the baby is doing well.

I like the idea of naming people after older relatives who may have been forgotten about, which is how Eugenie probably got her name.

This is the first member of the Royal family in recent times I've seen who actually looks like she's had a baby. Fatter and washed out.

I am sure we can look forward to lots of Augusts among the middle classes in the next few years. And after that there will be classes full of them in state schools. It's the way names go. There's a word for it but I can't remember what it is.

overthehill Look at the photos of Catherine leaving the hospital with George, she has a very visible post-partum stomach. Never had a lot of time for her before but that brought me round. There was no attempt to disguise it.

overthehill

Haven’t got a picture to hand, but when Diana left hospital with William, she also still looked quite pregnant.

She looked a bit more dolled up when she left with Harry, hair much more coiffed and a sleeker outfit. Think it hid her tummy more.

Eugenie had a c section too. The tummy doesn't go down as quickly. It's a major op, that's why she looked washed out.

Rosie51

overthehill Look at the photos of Catherine leaving the hospital with George, she has a very visible post-partum stomach. Never had a lot of time for her before but that brought me round. There was no attempt to disguise it.

Which led to conspiracy theorists questioning if she actually gave birth. Looking radiant hours later with a little bump to remind everyone a baby had been born. How did you yourself look after giving birth? Like Kate or like Eugenie, I personally resembled Eugenie along with everyone else I know.

I only put on a stone when pregnant.

After having my first, I felt I looked pretty much ‘back to normal’, especially compared to other new mums in the ward who still looked very pregnant. Due to leave hospital after the customary 7 days, I asked DH to bring a favourite pair of fashionable wide leg trousers to go home in.

Oh my goodness! I somehow managed to get the zip up, but could hardly breathe, took them off the minute I got home.

A lesson learned, was not as slim as I thought I was!

Well, I’m going to boast. After all three babies my stomach was a flat as when I was sixteen, straight away too. As flat as a popped balloon.

Pity about the enormous arse ?

Well done Peasblossom.
I’m not going to discuss my body -(not enough room on the page), but one of my sisters complained that she’d had to move up to size 10 after her third child!
I was only that size on the way up!