Princess Eugenie’s baby daughter has a name: Adelaide Elizabeth Annina Brooksbank, the couple confirmed two weeks after her birth on 3 August 2026 in Lisbon. The name carries a double royal tribute, a dash of Portuguese flavour, and a great-grandmother everyone will recognise.
The Royal Family’s official birth announcement confirmed the baby arrived at 6.20pm, weighing six pounds nine ounces. King Charles, the Queen, and other members of the Royal Family were, the announcement noted, ‘delighted to be informed of the news.’
The announcement photo, taken by her father Jack Brooksbank, showed Adelaide in a pink onesie with wings on the back and a small hat, according to People. It is the kind of soft-focus royal debut that follows a fairly well-worn script. What is rather less standard is what they chose to call her.
The Name: Three People, Two Countries, One Great-Grandmother
‘Two weeks ago today we welcomed our girl to the world,’ Princess Eugenie said, ‘and since then we’ve had the most special, cosy and love-filled time.’ She added that Adelaide is ‘named after three people we love and admire past and present, including her great-grandmother, who we hold close in our hearts.’
The great-grandmother is not hard to identify: the middle name Elizabeth is a clear tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II. The third name, Annina, accounts for the Portuguese thread Eugenie mentioned: ‘Her name is part of English and Portuguese history, two places we love and call home.’ The family splits their time between Portugal and the UK, and Eugenie had announced the pregnancy on Instagram on 4 May 2026, alongside a photo of her sons, per People.
As for the first name: Adelaide becomes the 15th in line to the throne, behind her brothers five-year-old August Philip Hawke and three-year-old Ernest George Ronnie. ‘Augie and Ernie are already the best big brothers,’ Eugenie said. Eugenie herself, according to Vogue, now sits 12th in line, having been sixth when she was born in 1990.
Who Is Princess Eugenie’s Baby Daughter Named After?
The first name reaches back to Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, born on 13 August 1792 in Meiningen, Thuringia, and died on 2 December 1849. She served as Queen of the United Kingdom and Queen of Hanover from 1830 to 1837, as the wife of William IV.
The backstory of that marriage is, to put it gently, efficient. Adelaide and William met for the first time just one week before their wedding on 11 July 1818 at Kew Palace, in a double ceremony with William’s brother Prince Edward Augustus. William was 27 years her senior. Despite those unpromising logistics, Adelaide became widely beloved for her piety, modesty, and charity. The capital city of South Australia was named in her honour when it was founded in 1836.
It is a name with weight, then: a queen consort who earned genuine public affection rather than simply inheriting it. Whether that historical resonance was front of mind or whether Eugenie and Brooksbank simply liked the sound of it, the choice fits neatly alongside August and Ernest: names that are old, English, and a little unexpected.
Eugenie and Brooksbank married in October 2018 at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and this October will mark their ninth wedding anniversary. They first met in 2010, according to People’s relationship timeline, which would put them together for around eight years before their wedding, not seven as some accounts have it.
Adelaide, Elizabeth, Annina: three names, four syllables to shout across a Lisbon garden in a few years’ time. Good luck with that, Augie and Ernie.
