What could’ve been. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry almost gave Archie a different name. A friend close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex told royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand for their book, Finding Freedom, that the couple considered a different name for their son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor, before he was born.
According to the source, Meghan and Harry “wanted something traditional, a name that was powerful even without a title in front of it.” So what was the other name the Duke and Duchess of Sussex considered?
Well, it was a longer version of Archie’s actual name. “They thought about Archibald for all of one second…He was always going to be little Archie,” the insider said.
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