Amid bookies’ frenzy taking bets on the name of Kate and William’s pending progeny, the odds probably aren’t very good for Eadwig or Canute.
(For what it’s worth, smart money’s on Alexandra or James, Ladbrokes says)
But 1,000 years ago, things would have been different.
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Check out more than a millenium of royal baby names in the interactive below – which names reigned longest?
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