Sunday, May 20, 2018
Who??
Apparently it came as a surprise to some people to find that Prince Harry's proper name is Henry. So how does Henry become Harry? It's not a new thing - devotees of Shakespeare will know the famous line from Henry IV "Cry God for Harry. England and Saint George!". Henry as a name came over to us with the Normans and would have been pronounced the French way - Arnree - and it has been suggested that Harry was simply an Anglesisation of that..
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