Earl Spencer is himself a Charles. I can imagine why someone would assume that his daughter is named after him (if not also after others, but maybe primarily after him).
Because of my interest in names, I read a number of recent news articles about the naming speculation when "Charlotte" was one of the favorites. I don't remember any mention there that "Charlotte" has either of these family connections, and I wasn't even aware of the existence of Charlotte Diana until I read this thread. Those articles were more concerned with the baby's grandfather and that Queen Charlotte.
Yet another possible family connection, not mentioned yet in this thread, is to Carole Middleton. She has a name that's more distantly related to "Charles." As others have posted here, the usual Latin form of "Charles" is "Carolus," and there are other related names, such as names in other languages and female versions. (I may also imagine someone assuming that Pippa's middle name comes from her mother's name.)
Yes i agree. If i am not mistaken Carole is the english version of Carl (masculine) or Carla (feminine) too or closer to Charlotte which i believe is French origin is Carlotta, italian origins. They’re all connected name-wise and family-wise for both the Spencer baby & Royal one.
But i found the sharing of fullname Charlotte Diana rather interesting. Of course the royal baby has the middlename of Elizabeth too. As a rule, royal female babies tend to have 3 names; and male babies 4. Earl Spencer & his daughter are aristocracy not royalty even if he has a title of ‘Earl’.
Anyway, i don’t think Kate & William’s daughter was named after Charles Spencer’s daughter. But much more because of having those names in the family. They both paid tribute to Diana. The royal also to her great grandmother and her maternal grandmother whose middlename like Kate’s is also Elizabeth.
It can be confusing lol.. all around Charlotte made a great deal more sense than Alice which was another top favourite.
P.S.- just thought of another royal name, if we wanted to throw the fishnet wider. Charlotte is also the name of Princess Caroline of Monaco’s daughter from her first marriage :) - carole, caroline, charlotte..
Yuk !