Why Princess Eugenie’s Baby Name Has Royals and Personal Meaning

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Historic Adelaide: noble and royal

Adelaide, a German name meaning “noble,” also recalls Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, who became queen when William IV took the throne in 1830. The Australian city of Adelaide was named for her. Eugenie even incorporated items tied to that queen: at her 2018 wedding she wore two diamond ear brooches once commissioned for Queen Adelaide.

Windsor, Portugal and family threads

The name nods to Portugal as well, inspired partly by Maria Adelaide, and reflects the couple’s life split between the U.K. and Portugal. Eugenie has previously drawn from family history when naming her sons — August and Ernest George Ronnie — and the new baby continues a pattern of honoring ancestors and place.