New BBC History Magazine article: Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor: the history behind the royal baby name

May 10, 2019

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I wrote a short history of the name Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor for the BBC History Magazine. I discussed the long history of the name Archibald or Archie among the Scottish nobility including an ancestor of the new royal baby, how Harrison mirrors Norse and Anglo-Saxon patronymics from before the Norman Conquest and the emergence of the surname Mountbatten-Windsor for junior members of the royal family from 1960 to the present.

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New BBC History Magazine article: Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor: the history behind the royal baby name

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