The news buzzed on our phone early this morning: The new royal baby is Louis Arthur Charles.
Our first thought? That this name choice will make the elder royals pleased as punch, since it's an homage to Lord Louis Mountbatten, a.k.a. Mountbatten of Burma, a.k.a. the last Viceroy of India, a.k.a. "Uncle Dickie." Prince Charles, in particular, was very close to Lord Mountbatten — in all his incarnations.
We're also happy to see pretty much everyone in journalism name-checking away on baby Louis, since the House of Windsor's monikers and titles can be kind of confusing. Just ask Amy Chozick, who has kicked up a storm of controversy with her book Chasing Hillary.
Why are we circling around to Chozick, you ask? Because her allegedly fact-checked tome appears to include a passing reference to some Windsor woman we never heard of: "Chelsea's press aide told me they'd studied how Britain's royal family had handled Princess Kate's pregnancy to devise the [Clinton] media strategy."
"Princess Kate"? Wethinks it's really Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cambridge. Kate Middleton seems nice, but she's not a princess (yet). Chozick kinda shoulda checked that. We cats HISS.
(PHOTO: Uncle Dickie poses regally — how else? — for Yousuf Karsh.)
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