LONDON – Britain’s Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank have named their baby boy August Philip Hawke Brooksbank, Buckingham Palace said Saturday.
The baby — a ninth great-grandchild for Queen Elizabeth II — was born Feb. 9 at London’s Portland Hospital. One of the infant's middle names appears to pay tribute to Eugenie’s grandfather, Prince Philip.
The queen’s 99-year-old husband is currently in a London hospital where he was admitted on Tuesday after feeling ill. Eugenie, 30, is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York and a granddaughter of the queen.
The baby, who weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce, is her first child and is 11th in line to the British throne. Eugenie married 35-year-old Brooksbank, a