the guessing game is over. the duke and duchess of cambridge named their son prince george louis alexander of cambridge. it pays respect but with a modern twist. we have much more on the very important question, erin, what is his name going to be we asked and we finally now know. reporter: that s right, kate. they named him pretty quickly by royal standards. charles and diana took a week to announce prince william s name. after much anticipating the name debate has ended. introducing his royal highness, prince george alexander louis of cambridge. the name is already a hit on the streets of london. yes. good old-fashioned british name. reporter: and a tribute to queen elizabeth who met her great grandson for the first time wednesday at kensington
he poses for the final shot. looks good in the final shot. a pom rainian. that was number on the royals list. jiff, good name. what is in a name i ask you? when you re the future king? quite a lot. prince george alexander louis of cambridge each name carries the weight of british tradition but taken together it creates something entirely new. cnn s erin mclaughlin is in london with more on this. hi, erin. reporter: hi, kate. they named him pretty quickly by royal standards. it took charles and diana a week to announce william s name. anticipation has ended as the great name debate is over. introducing his royal highness, prince george alexander louis of cambridge. the name is already a hit on the streets of london. yes. good old-fashioned british name. reporter: and a tribute to
going to come and it could have come over the next few days. but it was the visit by the queen to kensington palace that got me going. william said yesterday they were working on a name and we had to interpret that. had they chosen a name? had they not chosen a name? the queen popped over. i suspect he wanted to put it past her first in the first visit to the baby, her first sighting of her great grandchild and future heir. so i think they put it past the queen and got thinking and by the end of the day we got it in an e-mail. that s really the sort of conclusion to this whole royal baby story. as you say, today s announcement was relatively quick in royal standards. it took charles and diana a week to come up with the name william, right? it did. but also, they were very quick on harry, so there is a difference there. and also, i think this is linked in, wolf, to a statement i got a bit earlier, some words of
breaking by royal standards. it s not like he has two daddies or sofia vergara. ahh! reporter: on the modern side the duchess of cambridge has delivered a son. reporter: sending word of the birth in an e-mail. not so modern. they still posted that official announcement on that gilded easel thing. then there was this guy. modern no nannies. not so modern, access to five castles. modern when the baby was born, william would learn by encrypted phone. reporter: an encrypted phone, not so modern, that duty to tell his grand marry he did his duty and produced an heir. modern, 61-gun salute, sure it s not twitter but not cross bows and slingshots. that s fairly modernish.
prince, the future king, the possible first british monarch of the 22nd century. the parents, william and kate, hailed as young, fresh, modern. they do things their own way. this is a very modern royal couple. they re a very hip, modern royal couple. maybe. it s safe to say there are modern families and then modern families. young baby cambridge s entrance to the world might be ground breaking by royal standards but it s not like he has two daddies or sophia bergera. a break from tradition, sending word of the birth in an e-mail. not so modern, they posted the announcement on that gilded easeas