Overview
- Eugenie announced the full name Adelaide Elizabeth Annina Brooksbank on Instagram on August 17, two weeks after the baby’s birth.
- The child was born on August 3 in a Lisbon hospital and is Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s third child and first daughter.
- Eugenie said the three forenames pay tribute to people and histories the couple admire, linking the family’s English and Portuguese ties.
- Media reports connect Elizabeth explicitly to the late Queen Elizabeth II and link Adelaide to British and Portuguese historical figures, while the reported homage in Annina to Eugenie’s friend Annina Bruges von Pfuel has not been confirmed by Eugenie.
- Adelaide is counted among the late queen’s great-grandchildren, sits in the royal succession without an HRH title, and continues a wider trend of younger royals carrying Elizabeth as a given or extra name.