Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge welcomed Louis Arthur Charles to the world on Monday but despite making the British public wait four days for his name - it has emerged the little royal could have been left waiting for a title.
In fact, the adorable bundle only has the title HRH Prince Louis of Cambridge because his great gran, the Queen, overturned a century-old rule that saw all HRH titles limited to just the Monarch, their children, grandchildren and the Prince of Wales’s first grandson.
Under this 1917 rule, Prince George would have had the title but his younger siblings would have been called Lady Charlotte Mountbatten-Windsor and new baby Louis would have been Lord Louis Mountbatten-Windsor. prince louis
If Charlotte was the family’s firstborn, the same ruling would have stopped her being a princess. To prevent this, the Queen sought a legal notice before Prince George was born that enabled her great grandchildren to have prince and princess titles, without the need for Parliament approval.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge welcomed their baby boy into the world on Monday at 11.01am weighing 8lbs 7oz.
And speculation has been mounting about whether Prince Louis could make an appearance at his uncle’s royal wedding to Meghan on May 19.
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