article_snippet.sent: Names have also proved popular with betting fans, with Alice the current front runner for a princess, followed by Victoria.
article_snippet.sent: Both  have a suitably regal pedigree, with Victoria boasting a particularly spectacular history and a string of titled owners.
article_snippet.sent: Most notable of those is the new baby's five-times great grandmother Queen Victoria, who ruled at the height of the British Empire and gloried in the title of Empress of India as well as Queen.
article_snippet.sent: Her eldest daughter, the mother of the future Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, was also called Victoria, as were an impressive 12 of Queen Victoria's granddaughters.
article_snippet.sent: Victoria Queen Victoria's is Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria, 37, who will follow Victoria 68-year-old father King Carl XVI Gustaf onto the Swedish throne.
article_snippet.sent: Alice, meanwhile, was bestowed on another of Queen Victoria's daughters, Princess Alice Maud Marie, who went on to marry Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
article_snippet.sent: Queen Victoria's daughters, Princess Alice Maud Marie, who went on to marry Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse had seven children, among Queen Victoria's daughters, Princess Alice Maud Marie, who went on to marry Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse the doomed last Tsarina of Russia, Alexandra Fyodorovna, and Victoria, first Princess Louis of Battenburg and then Marchioness of Milford Haven.
article_snippet.sent: Contemporary royal Victorias include Sweden's Crown Princess, pictured at her 2010 wedding .
article_snippet.sent: Famous royal Alices include Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark .
article_snippet.sent: James daughter, also called Alice, produced the most famous of Alice of Hesse's descendants - Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, now the Duke of Edinburgh.
article_snippet.sent: Arthur, meanwhile, is derived from the Celtic Artorīgios which translates as 'bear king' and has a pedigree that includes Britain's most famous mythical king.
highlights_snippet.sent: Popular names include Alice, Victoria, Arthur and James .