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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry ‘bought “Lilibet Diana” domain name before their daughter’s name was approved by Queen’
MEGHAN Markle and Prince Harry bought the domain name “Lilibet Diana” before their daughter’s name was approved by the Queen, it has been reported.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are said to have purchased a “significant” number of domain names for potential names they were considering for their baby girl.
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are said to have bought the domain ‘Lilibet Diana’ before getting the Queen’s approval for their daughter’s name[/caption]
The URL lilibetdiana.com was created on Friday June 4 through GoDaddy – two days before the Sussexes the arrival of Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.
Several days earlier, on May 31, the domain name lilidiana.com was registered, giving the couple another alternative to Lilibet should the Queen have objected to its use.
A spokesman for the couple told The Telegraph: “Of course, as is often customary with public figures, a significant number of domains of any potential names that were considered were purchased by their team to protect against the exploitation of the name once it was later chosen and publicly shared.”
The name Lilibet was first used by the Queen as a child when she was unable to pronounce her name properly.
It has only ever been used since by her parents, her late husband Prince Philip and a handful of her closest friends and relatives.
But Meghan and Harry hit back at a Palace source who claimed they “never asked” the monarch about using her childhood nickname, insisting she was “supportive” of the choice.
Lilibetdiana.com was set up on June 4[/caption]
It was was created through GoDaddy[/caption]
Lawyers instructed by the Duke and Duchess said it was “false and defamatory” for the BBC to suggest the couple hadn’t asked the Queen.
And the couple’s official spokesman said at the time: “The Duke spoke with his family in advance of the announcement, in fact his grandmother was the first family member he called.
“During that conversation, he shared their hope of naming their daughter Lilibet in her honor.
“Had she not been supportive, they would not have used the name.”
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Buckingham Palace, however, refused to deny suggestions that the Queen had not been asked and did not comment any further.
Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, who will be known as Lili, was born at 11.40am on Friday June 4 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in California.
The Sussexes are both taking several months’ parental leave, although the Duke will be in the UK next week for the unveiling of a statue dedicated to his mother Princess Diana.
