UK/FILE: London cabbie recalls encounter with Middletons; Prince George Alexander Louis is named after six British kings and Louis Mountbatten

Record ID: 191226

  • Title: UK/FILE: London cabbie recalls encounter with Middletons; Prince George Alexander Louis is named after six British kings and Louis Mountbatten
  • Date: 26th July 2013
  • Summary: (UNKNOWN LOCATION) FILE (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) KING GEORGE VI WITH QUEEN ELIZABETH AND DAUGHTERS CANADA (FILE - JUNE 1939) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH IN CANADA WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES ((FILE - JUNE 1939) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH BEING GREETED BY U.S. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT VARIOUS OF KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH ON U.S. TOUR FRANCE (FILE) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF KING GEORGE VI WITH TROOPS DURING WAR TIME ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF KING GEORGE VI DURING WAR TIME LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE - APRIL 1945) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) KING GEORGE VI WITH BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL CELEBRATING VICTORY DAY WINDSOR, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE - JULY 22, 1948) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH AT THE 600TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GARTER CEREMONY AT WINDSOR EARL MOUNTBATTEN INSTALLED AS A KNIGHT OF THE ORDER PRINCESS ELIZABETH AND PRINCE PHILIP AT THE CEREMONY NEW DELHI, INDIA (FILE - JUNE 3, 1947) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF LORD LOIUS MOUNTBATTEN WITH INDIAN LEADERS LORD MOUNTBATTEN MAKING A BROADCAST SPEECH
  • Embargoed: 10th August 2013 13:00
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  • Location: India, Usa, Canada, France, United Kingdom
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  • Country: Canada Usa United Kingdom France India
  • Topics: Royalty,History,People,Religion,Transport
  • Reuters ID: LVA2ODNQSMO0DJYX6EN0A5I11Q2U
  • Story Text: When the parents of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, left London's St Mary's hospital after seeing their grandson for the first time, it was London taxi driver Tracey Mitchell's car they got into.
    Mitchell on Thursday (July 25) recounted how it was just a matter of chance that she happened to be in the area when Carole and Michael Middleton stepped outside the hospital to hundreds of journalists and stepped in to her blue taxi.
    "Picking up our future king's grandparents, what can be better than that. I was on my way home when I got the job. I probably would have been home by then. I had decided to go home but didn't, I took another job.. .. this is how it all turned out. It was just total madness. It happened to be me in the area. Right time, right place," Mitchell said.
    The Middletons had just seen Prince George Alexander Louis, the newly-born child of Prince William and Catherine. The encounter left the Mitchell impressed.
    "I thought they were really nice people. They got in the cab and they chatted amongst themselves. They seemed pleasant. I didn't really speak to them. I just didn't want to interfere in their momentthey were sort of taken aback by it all. They were really nice. I congratulated them on the birth. They thanked me. She (Carole) said she was nervous," Mitchell recounted.
    The baby, born on Monday to global media frenzy and third in line to the British throne, will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge.
    George has been the name of six British kings. The last, George VI, was the father of Queen Elizabeth and reigned from 1936 to 1952.
    Alexandra, the female form of Alexander, is one of the queen's middle names, and was also the name of the queen consort of King Edward VII at the start of the last century.
    Louis is one of William's middle names, and was the given name of Prince Charles's mentor and great-uncle Louis Mountbatten, who was assassinated by Irish nationalist IRA guerrillas in 1979.
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