The royal family may need to hire a fact checker for their social media, because Prince Louis’s birthday post contained a blatant error. (And no, it still hasn’t been corrected.)
为了纪念路易王子的2 nd birthday yesterday, the royal family shared aseries of official portraitson Queen Elizabeth’s official Twitter account (@RoyalFamily), featuring the young royalcompleting a rainbow art project.
Part of the caption read, “HRH is the queen’s seventh great-grandchild.” We repeat, “Seventh great-grandchild.”
See anything wrong? Well, you might not, unless you’re a royal nerd like us. But someone in the royal family should have noticed that Prince Louis is actually Queen Elizabeth’s sixth great-grandchild, not her seventh. According to our handy dandy encyclopedia (aka Google), the order goes as follows:Savannah Phillips(9), Isla Phillips (8),Mia Tindall(6),Prince George(6) andPrincess Charlotte(4), which makes Prince Louis number six.
Since Prince Louis’s birth in 2018, the queen has welcomed two more great-grandchildren,Lena TindallandArchie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, bringing the total to eight. We don’t know where the confusion began, but maybe they accidentally counted George or Charlotte twice (their larger-than-life personalities might make them seem like more than one child).
Royals, they’re just like us—even when it comes to making typos.
