It appears to be a family tradition, as Kate and Prince William also chose to give their daughter Princess Charlotte the middle name Elizabeth, after her paternal great-grandmother, as well as Diana in honour of Princess Diana.
Pippa s daughter s second middle name is Jane, which is a tribute to James s own mother and Pippa s mother-in-law, Jane Matthews.
Carole Middleton s middle name is also Elizabeth
A family source announced the news to
HELLO! on Monday, revealing that Pippa had given birth to a baby girl weighing 6lbs 7oz at around 4:22am. Mother and baby are doing well, the source said. She s perfect, everyone is overjoyed at such a happy arrival.
Pippa, 37, and her older sister Kate, 39, share a tight bond and are also close with their brother James Middleton, who is hoping to marry his fiancée Alizee Thevenet this year after having to postpone their 2020 nuptials because of the pandemic.
James and Pippa welcomed their daughter on 15 March
Pippa kept relatively quiet during her second pregnancy and was only spotted out and about a handful of times, walking in her neighbourhood where she and husband James own a £17m west London mansion.
When Pippa was pregnant with her son Arthur in 2018, she opened up about her experience in her